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Related Blog Post: Disasters Emergency Action Plans Emergency Evacuation Procedures

Which Path Will You Choose To Take?
- This entire episode was just a tiny bit of my one year preparedness system.
- How To Be A Prepper: One Year Emergency Preparedness System
- When there is a disaster you will have to decide:
- to bug-in for security
- or to bug-out to get away from danger
- We must prepare for both bugging in and out
- You will bug in when:
- disaster requires you to stay home (such as a food shortage or sickness)
- or at home the disaster will do you no harm (loss of job)
- You will bug out when:
- You have a disaster that is immediately hazardous to life and health (forest fire spreading, nuclear disaster that hasn’t made it to you yet)
- A disaster is regional and you have an evacuation location out of the region (such as a storm that has destroyed the area)
- When stress is high, will you know what to do, what to grab, or the best way to get to your BOL?
- we use emergency action plans
- what is an emergency action plan?
- A document with important information and documentation to help you and others to follow well thought out steps to ensure success when executing a bug-out plan.
- Why should you have an Emergency Action Plan or Emergency Evacuation Procedure?
- Family members stressed can follow the easy written steps
- keep your spouse on track and clear their head
- help you with your own memory
- Irresponsible children may surprise you in a bad situation if they have a good plan
- they will help you figure out what you are weakest at, and where attention is due
- What should be in an Emergency Action Plan or Emergency Evacuation Procedure?
- List of likely disasters
- Jobloss
- House fire or damage
- Tornados
- Hurricanes
- Snow and Ice Storms
- Earthquakes
- Floods
- Volcanic Eruption
- Meteor Impact
- Economic Collapse or Viral Outbreak
- What is most likely?
- Where will it come from?
- Will you stay home or evacuate?
- Rank them and work on most likely first
- List of important contacts
- Family
- Professional Contacts
- Banker, Brokers, Investment Firms, Employers
- Emergency Services
- Each Contact should include:
- Phone numbers, addresses, social media info, email addresses
- The roles for each family member
- Father- Keep everyone together, security
- Mother- Packing list, important docs, call family members
- Teenagers- grab their own bag and important items
- gather pet supplies, social media updates if needed
- Small Children- Grab their bags and toys, grab pets
- The roles you give each person depends on your own comfort level
- Financial Information
- Bank Accounts
- Acc Number, routing number, type of account
- Loan Information
- account mgr contact, type of account
- Invesment Accounts
- Firm, Contact at the firm, broker contact
- Insurance Accounts
- account mgr contact, account number
- Property Titles
- Copy of your car registrations
- All Financial contacts should have
- Copy of your favorite survival books
- Plan for your Pets
- Their own bags
- Food: Cheap dried dogfood
- Where in vehicles, which vehicles will they ride
- will you have to take them anywhere?
- Evacuation Routes
- As easy as 3-3-3
- 3 destinations
- 3 Routes for each destination
- 3 Rally points or rest stops for each route
- Will everyone know what rest stop b on route 3 is?
- What if you arent at home, others need to be able to look in EAP and determine what to do or where to go
- Code phrases for danger
- Packing Lists
- IHLH (Immediate Hazard to Life or Health)
- BOBs
- Premade Bags
- Important Documentation
- Anything quick and easy to grab that will do the most good
- An Hour or Two
- Add items to your list based on your needs
- A day to pack
- Fireproof Safe
- central place to grab important docs in a hurry
- safe place for your documents as well
- Keep things like
- detailed financial map or information
- IDs
- other important documentation
- Keep your most important and most detailed Disaster Plan in the safe
- How many copies of your Emergency Disaster Action Plan or Emergency Evacuation Procedure should you have?

- Several physical copies
- Each Vehicle
- Each bugout bag
- A copy in your home for each family member
- Your most detailed and important copy in a fireproof/waterproof safe
- Copy to your most trusted family members (not living with you)
- they may not listen to you until it is too late
- this can be your contribution to help them
- they will now be able to contact you and meet up with you for help
- Many digital copies
- One on every single computer in the home, including laptops
- One on each smartphone or tablet
- portable, low energy consumption, easy to keep charged
- Email it to yourself using web-based email so it is stored online
- You could keep a copy “on the cloud”
- purchase drive space from a long term storage host, like Amazon Glacier
- a penny per GB per month
- slow and free to pull a GB
- 12 cents per GB up to 10 TB (120 dollars for a TB, or 1000 GB)
- Remember that this entire episode was just a tiny bit of my one year preparedness system.
- I have my How To Be A Prepper: One Year Emergency Preparedness System finished and ready to sell, but it has taken me a little while to set up the best online store or ecommerce for it.