subject: A Brief Overview Of Survival Kits To Be Prepared For Emergency Or Disaster [print this page] One can never be sure when some kind of disaster or emergency may hit. Experts suggest that homeowners, business owners, and workers keep survival kits to be prepared for emergency or disaster. There are several determining factors for what would be in these kits.
Destructive weather phenomena, such as hurricanes, can be tracked by weather experts for days or even weeks in advance. Still, even with their best efforts, the experts can't precisely predict where the storms will make landfall. Other types of disasters, such as earthquakes, fires, or terrorist attacks, may come without any warning at all. In any case, having a special kit full of tools or non-perishable supplies may help a person survive.
With a quick web search, you'll see kits for different purposes and venues. You'll see kits for the car, the home, and for the workplace. What's in the kits may be determined by either the kind of disaster for which one needs to prepare, or for which of the preceding locations it will be used.
Geographical location will be a determining factor for which type of emergency to be most ready. Residents of south Florida need to stay prepared for hurricanes, but they'll probably never have to prepare for a snowstorm or frigid weather. In sleepy little towns, being ready for terrorist attacks needn't be such a high priority, as it is in a large city like New York or Washington, D. C. Fires, however, can happen anywhere.
A fire evacuation setup could have things like a whistle, a flashlight, goggles, and a breathing mask. A business owner may want to issue them to the employees, and homeowners could keep one ready for each person in the family.
Other disasters could cause loss of a utility service, such as gas, water, or electricity. Kits for these may be equipped with long-shelf life food that doesn't need to be refrigerated or cooked, and sealed packages of water. A radio and a flashlight that run off of an internal hand-cranked dynamo would be quite handy, and portable emergency sanitation facilities would be a necessity. For folk in earthquake-prone places, kits can be had in crush-resistant cases.
Special tools are available to shut off water or gas in case their lines get damaged or broken. Some of these tools are designed to also help dig through rubble after an earthquake.
When traveling, the best emergency tool is a cell phone, in order to call for help. But, in certain wilderness areas, cell phone service isn't available. This is where having a kit with non-perishable food, blanket, temporary shelter, and fire-starter devices would be useful.
On the World Wide Web, there are quite a few purveyors of survival kits to be prepared for emergency or disaster. Normally, vendor websites allow you to browse through different product categories. Products are categorized according to where they'll be used, so that you may locate what you need for either car, home, school, or work. Browsing in the category for catastrophe type will find kits for blackouts, hurricanes, terrorist attacks, etc. Whatever you may need, your search engine of choice will help find it.
