Holiday Preparedness
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The holidays are known for a time of joy, happiness and time with your loved ones. We also think of it as a time of giving and reflection on ones self. But with all the happiness and joy, there is also the fact that anything can happen even during your holiday season. I, myself live in an area were we are dictated by the weather. Two years ago a tornado tore through our neighborhood just three days before Christmas. Did you know that more homes are broken into during the holidays. Our preps are just as important during the holidays as it is any other time of the year. Read more “Holiday Preparedness!”
A critical concern in All Hazards Communications Preparedness 5-Phase Process planning is available radio frequencies and their assigned uses. Preppers must include available this information in their Communications planning. This planning is vital to equipment selection.
I’ve learned through the years that it’s not so much what you know – it’s who you know. As an adult, I find it difficult to explain this at times to the younger generations. Everything from job seeking to skill building to survival hinges on our ability to serve others and receive help in times of need. But it all begins with a connection. Whether it be family connections or acquaintances or complete strangers who hold a similar value system, a community of like-minded individuals will be able to weather storms and stresses of life and help each other in the process. 
You’re faced with a decision you thought you would never have to make. You and your family have to leave everything you’ve ever known behind in order to escape danger. What do you do? What do you take? Where will you go? Are you even ready?
Its as though mother nature realized September was the preppers month, too! Here we are watching the Atlantic stack up with potential hurricanes and on that could be a trajectory with the East Coast. This episode should take place just before or as the Hurricane Florence makes landfall. I thought it a perfect opportunity not only to talk about some hurricane prepping and things to have in place but also to discuss the aftermath of a hurricane. That should be high on you list of things to prepare for as well, if you are in an area that could be affected. 
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night. You are suddenly jarred awake by a strange warning siren you rarely hear. You’re equipped with a NOAA Weather Radio in your bedroom but it hasn’t gone off. Is it the bad storm you heard about earlier.
Growing up, the kids we ran with set the stage for who we would grow up to be. We had our own Sandlot and Platoon and Mission Impossible teams. But even in our little groups there was a sense of understanding that one of us could do things better than another. We learned through play fighting, street games, races and the like who was the best at pinning down an opponent, outsmarting the person who was “it,” and who could sprint distances without the slightest sense of exhaustion. 
Electricity from the Earth???
What do you want to know about All Hazards Communications Preparedness? We want to share with your knowledge gained from life-long experiences with all forms of communications– in good times and during crises. I’m your new host and I want to answer your questions.
Hello Team Gunmetal!! Well I was away last week and the reason I was away last week is because I was preparing to teach the first class I had ever taught on how to build your own bug out bag. Here where I live there are a lot of people who want to prepare but don’t know how to prepare and that can be one of the hardest things to learn when you’re trying to get started, as we all know. 
Frugality was a stigma as I grew up. It was something akin to stingy, miserly, unwilling to share. The connotation of being frugal is something over the last few decades has gone so far from its origins that has become something that is scary to our culture to consider as something to strive for.
