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The Steps You Must Take To Prepare Your Home For Disaster

The Steps You Must Take To Prepare Your Home For Disaster

Disaster Prep

Feeling unsafe in your own home is one of the worst feelings.

Your home should be your sanctuary, even in the face of a crisis.

Here are the steps you must take to prepare your home for a disaster.

The best way to survive disaster situations is to plan ahead.

Acting without a plan can lead to irrational and dangerous decisions.

Having a disaster plan for your home is the most important prep of all because that’s your base of operations.

Here are some steps you can take to prepare your home for a disaster.

The first thing to consider is the type of threat that’s most likely to affect you.

That isn’t to say you shouldn’t prepare for a wide array of problems, but it doesn’t hurt to prioritize potential crises.

For example, people in California and people in Florida will have very different opinions about the threat of earthquakes and hurricanes.

If you live along the gulf or the eastern seaboard, hurricanes are a yearly reality each fall season.

It’s crucial that you have shutters to protect your home, or even better, an underground bunker.

Also, have an evacuation plan in case your area is in a direct path.

People who are in earthquake zones should try to get outside as quickly as possible if they’re near the center of an earthquake.

The same nuanced approach applies to wildfires or tornadoes.

Assess the natural disasters that pose the greatest threat and have your emergency plan ready to go.

Another emergency to be prepared for is home invasion.

There are roughly 3.7 million break-ins a year, and nearly one-third of them occur when someone is home.

If you find yourself in this situation, make sure you’ve already selected a designated safe room so everyone in your household knows exactly where to go and what to do.

Have access to firearms in multiple rooms so you can defend yourself even if you’re away from your gun cabinet or safe.

Storing ropes or drop ladders in second-story rooms gives you a better chance of successfully escaping out of a window if you or a family member is upstairs during a robbery.

In fact, they’re both great resources if your house catches fire.

Another way to fight against fire is to lessen the risk.

Make sure your electrical wiring is up so a dangerous electrical fire is less likely to happen.

Familiarize yourself with the different kinds of fires because each one requires a different approach for extinguishing the flame.

For example, you should never use water on grease or electrical fires.

Water is an excellent conductor of electricity, so throwing water on an electrical fire could result in you shocking yourself.

And tossing water on a grease fire will only make a splash that can spread the flammable chemicals.

Finally, make sure you have backup power sources.

Losing access to the power grid can go from inconvenient, to scary, to dangerous relatively quickly.

Backup generators, unscented candles, and solar power are just a few ways to ensure you can still function without power.

There are many more ways to fortify your home, but the first step is figuring out which threats pose the greatest danger.

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