With hurricane season underway and winter around the corner, now is a great time to determine if you and your family are ready for an emergency situation. Severe weather conditions could leave you stranded without power. Fallen trees, excessive rain, and ice can make roads impassable…Are you prepared??? To be perfectly honest, my family and I were not ready for an emergency. We found out the hard way on September 18th, 2003 when Hurricane Isabel came through. We had moved into our new house just 3 1/2 months before. We hadn't even fully unpacked much less had an emergency plan for our new home. We had 20+ trees on our lot downed by the hurricane. And thank goodness not one of them hit the house! Two of what seamed to be the largest trees fell across our driveway. We had no chainsaw and no way out. While assessing the damage to our property we decided to check the main roads. It looked like an over-sized game of pick-up sticks. Trees were down all across the main road in both directions. WOW…no power, no water, no plan. The best part is, the damage was so bad to the power lines that we did not get electricity until October 3rd. In short…Lesson learned! I stumbled upon a pamphlet provided by the State of Virginia at one of the conventions I recently attended and would like to pass this information onto you. It's a great resource on how to get your family ready for any emergency in 3 easy steps.
I hope this information helps your family to be better prepared in case of an emergency. Citing Resource: [Online] Available at http://www.readyvirginia.gov/ September 11, 2009.
