What You Should Know About Stockpiling Antibiotics

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Editor’s note: Planandprepared.com welcomes Jennifer Moran to the site. Jennifer Moran is the author and the social media manager at PreparedBee.com. She has been passionately writing for over four years. When she isn’t glued to a laptop screen, she spends time playing tennis, practicing yoga, and trying very hard not to sleep during the meditation. … Read more

Helping the Vulnerable: How to Deal With The Homeless After a Disaster

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Natural disasters like floods and wildfires occur frequently, oftentimes without warning. Although there are a number of non-profit organizations and agencies that work together to provide citizens with safety and survival information, the reality is that this information hardly ever makes to the homeless population. This means that when disasters strike major cities, individuals and families living on the streets are by far the most vulnerable. Why? The answer typically has to deal with resources.

Individuals experiencing homelessness have little to no resources when it comes to evacuating, shelter, food, and access to transportation. Nonetheless, communities and individuals can — and should — consider creating an action plan. A plan that allows them to prepare for emergencies, and one that allows them to better help homeless people if and when a major event happens. Although weather-related disasters continue to be a threat, there are ways communities can stay prepared. Here’s how:

Develop a Plan Ahead of Time

When developing an emergency action plan, it’s important to determine the conditions for evacuation, transportation access, and means of communication. These things are important to consider because there is no warning before the event occurs. To make matters worse, when these events occur, they usually happen so fast that residents hardly have enough time to gather their personal belongings. This is especially true for homeless individuals and families. Therefore, planning ahead of time is crucial.

What’s the purpose of emergency evacuation plans?

Emergency evacuation plans are developed to make sure employees, homeowners, and community members (including homeless individuals) are able to leave the comfort of their home or work environment safely, with as little disruption as possible. The evacuation plan must identify how residents should respond to different scenarios and when they should leave the area.

Remember, when developing evacuation plans, it’s important to ask questions like “how will this information reach the homeless population or what are some ways residents can further help?” However volunteers address these questions, just be sure to plan for the worst-case scenario. Don’t forget to include nearby shelters and hospitals. Getting patients the care they need could save their lives if they get injured during an earthquake, flood, hurricane, or tornado.

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Reliable Emergency SHTF Lighting Solutions

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Editor’s note: Please welcome Daniel Major to the website. Daniel is the owner of Alpha Survivalist. According to Daniel,  “I’m not ex-Special Forces. I’ve no experience in counter intelligence. I’ve never had to survive 3 years as a castaway on a deserted island, and I’m not some wannabee apocalyptic zombie killer! It wasn’t until after … Read more

3 common disasters that could result in devastation

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Editor’s note: PlanandPrepared.com welcomes Tony C to the website. Tony first realized the how ill prepared he was following the 2008 stock market/housing collapse. Tony vowed to change that, and has been preparing him and his family ever since. He’s a proud husband of 20+ years and a father of two boys. You can find Tony at Prepsurvivalguide.com

In a large part of prepper writing, people are told to prepare for major disasters. Events like EMPs, mass famine, financial collapse, martial law, or nuclear war get plenty of attention from our fellow preppers and advice regarding these events abounds. Most people’s view of a prepper is someone who expects only the worst in life to happen.

While this can be true, it is not always so. For example, I am not a big believer that we are going to go to nuclear war any time soon. I may be wrong, but I would love to be right.

What I am a big believer in is that things could go wrong every day. Some of these are not huge SHTF events (like a car running out of gas), while others can pose serious issues (like an elderly family member falling).

And more often than not, it is not the extreme events that cause disorder in our lives. The events that cause most of the destruction in our daily lives are when regular, daily occurrences go horribly wrong.

So to truly prepare for disaster, we must ask the question: what are common, daily scenarios that could go horribly wrong and result in devastation for myself, my family, and my loved ones?
The sad, yet true answer is that there are many common disasters that can quickly escalate to devastating events. For simplicity’s sake, I’ve divided the most common ones into three main
categories: health, location, and natural disasters.

Health

Health could be an issue where a seemingly minor pain can quickly become extreme or even life threatening. Imagine this scenario: My son was weightlifting a few months ago and felt a small twinge in his lower back. He’s a pretty stout fellow and is use to some pain. The problem is that he thinks he’s a really stout fellow and can work through the pain!

He was wrong.

His minor tweak soon turned to a full on muscular pull in his back. Not only was he unable to continue exercising, but he was walking funny, had trouble opening doors, and didn’t even want
to pour milk by himself.

His entire problem started because of a minor strain in his back. Now imagine if we had to bug out. Imagine if he had to defend himself, his girlfriend, or his mother from an attacker. Imagine
if he had to grow his own food.

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