# 3725
As a former paramedic, and a cruising sailor for many years, I know how quickly life can go from `normal’ to a crisis mode. Most people go through their lives in denial that it can happen to them, but the truth is, eventually, emergencies happen to just about everybody.
While this National Ad Council PSA portrays an allegorical physical upheaval, emergencies often come is less overt and dramatic forms.
The sudden cardiac arrest someone in your presence, a slip and fall in the shower, a careless moment with a kitchen knife, someone runs a stop sign and T-bones your vehicle, a prolonged power outage, or perhaps a house fire or a flood.
Emergencies come in all sizes and shapes.
Being prepared means you are equipped to deal with medical emergencies (first aid kit and some training) and are at least minimally capable of providing for your family’s basic needs in a larger disaster for 72 hours.
After the experiences of Hurricane Katrina, and the crisscrossing of Florida by 4 hurricanes during 6 weeks in 2004, many emergency planners have increased their recommendations to families having a 2-week supply of essential food, water, and medicines.
So far, in 2009, there have been 45 Major Disaster Declarations by FEMA in the United States. And this is only September.
If you aren’t prepared to deal with a disaster, today is the very best day for you to get started.
Visit READY.GOV , FEMA, or FLU.GOV for more specific information.
Three other excellent sources of preparedness advice I can recommend are GetPandemicReady.Org, the Readymoms Alliance, and the American Red Cross.
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