Category Archives: Emergencies
Hot Weather Is Here! How Good Was Your Preparation?
Mine wasn’t! Extreme hot weather came with a vengeance where I live in Washington state, USA. Prepared for this record-breaking hot weather? Inadequate, to say the least. What about you? In the past, I have shared about emergency preparations for power outages in warm and cold weather. But the emergency of severe heat? Never thought […]
Continue readingMy Lights Went Out! Was I Prepared?
Power outages and chronically ill people—a disaster or merely an annoyance? The difference? Advance planning. I must be a slow learner because I wrote about this in June 2020 but did not put my advice into action. (Or the steps in the post in December 2015.) So, this led to problems the other night. The […]
Continue readingDisasters Crop Up Without Warning! Are You Prepared?
Brown rice cooking in the electric cooker! Yum! Breakfast ready soon! Oh no! The lights went out. What happened? It’s a beautiful spring day. No clouds in the sky. But, guess what? I’m not prepared. I have ignored disaster planning for invisibly disabled people, of which I am certainly one. Good news, though. In this […]
Continue readingStorms of a Different Kind: 4 Steps to Be Prepared
Where will you be when an emergency hits? Have you even thought about it? If you can’t walk and you’re on the 10th floor when a fire happens, how will you get out? If you’re on electric equipment, do you have plans for a power failure? Emergency preparedness for disabled persons is critical. 5:45 pm. […]
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