The preparation for a mysterious "big day" since the breakup of the Warsaw Pact, the non-occurrence of the year come 2000 Disasters and finally the absence of detail to the sweeping economic crisis such as 1929 bit out of fashion in any event, broad movement in the U.S. and Europe or on remittances as a state or quasi-governmental structure (eg, civil protection is largely extinct). This movement in various Respects quite well given rise to criticism. Undoubtedly, the basic idea of the preparation is entitled to crisis scenarios, but still.
taking into account only a few personal and private experiences of recent years, easily found a sufficient number of examples of the benefits of preparation:
- The winter night alone in the middle of the highway in a traffic jam at -10 degree
- The rainy, windy and cold night, at the German track to another with many passengers because of the storm Kyrill somewhere in the nothingness of the ICE Station South Limburg in the middle of the night from the train had
- The day when the heater in the middle of winter turned out and you suddenly with his small children in the dark and the cold sat and sleep did not trust, so that none of them under cool
At this point - in the face of a DAX-state of 7,000 meters and an apparently well-going Christmas shopping - not speculation be, how would a collapse of the euro, affect a bankruptcy of some of our major Western economies, a prolonged interruption of gas supplies from Russia or a world resounding military conflict as that between North and South Korea on us. It may be that we could trace all the warmth with a bag of chips and a beer on television, may be that we would suffer.
F UR so many of our friends in the USA or in southern Africa are looting, incendiary mobs, erratic electricity and water supply and storm not fiction, but one of these phenomena was several times in life at present.
Let us hold fast that which is fundamental to dealing with preparations for emergencies and make sense - a healthy dose of realism provided - stress the "normal" life or not must affect.
When we say basically Preparedness - so do we call this setting in the following without connection to any models or organizations - makes sense, then we should ask ourselves how and on what we do and can prepare. In the following, therefore, seem a loose series of contributions to it.
Here Place the following only: Basically Preparedness shall, at a relatively low level the following:
- protection from cold (especially in heat loss)
- Supply during electricity failure (cooking, lighting)
- supply when food shortages (path closed and / or dealers themselves)
- protection against fire and accidents in the home environment
- protect the house and its inhabitants from rising crime
to protect against the cold and to the supply of electricity failure we have in other contexts already Texts Published:
With regard to food shortages, the Federal Office said: "Judging every household should create a supply of food and beverages for one to two weeks. In the selection, care should be taken to ensure that the foods longer without refrigeration and stored (such as a power failure) can also be eaten cold. When disasters are especially expected in a case of defense, must also be a disturbance of the water supply or even with a contamination of drinking water. Man can indeed also for three weeks without food, but live only four days without liquid. That is why part of every emergency supply necessarily a sufficient amount of liquid. To meet these requirements are, mineral water, fruit juices or other beverages stored longer. In our check list for tables is given in which the daily needs of a person of food and beverages. Please consider this and to any necessary special diet, such as diabetics, or baby food. Also in the household animals should be considered in the stock. "
Beneficial little of obscure (and probably taste disgusting) special stocks in question, and instead of what you eat normally.
Given the current political climate it would be contemporary to omit the extensive defense case with attacks on German territory, but other than that, remains the reference date. There are indeed environmental and natural disasters, extreme weather, epidemics, etc. In order to rely on inventories, it is enough to for singles is too sick for a while to leave the house, or if you care as a single parent of a sick child needs and therefore can not leave the house or when you can buy because of a hard winter slump and a greater distance to the nearest shopping place nothing. There are many other reasons. I myself is a relatively trivial event in memory, as my spouse to H1N1 (known colloquially as "swine flu") was ill and I had to care for him and my little children for several days without leaving the house (we were in quarantine, so to speak).
For this case I had taken precautions, in which I had bought a large quantity of beverages and in two "batches" divided (lemonade, mineral water and beer, not so bad and now with this system certainly is not). Whenever the first batch - and six crates of water, three sodas and two beers - was consumed, I bought it from scratch. I've used up but not this new (third), but the left remained second. In this way, was at worst a full and complete charge available - but usually more than that is exactly the procedure I used with staple foods such as pasta, rice, jam, biscuits, baby food, etc., and often demanded some food cans. Since there are foods is that we use anyway, I have no money for emergency rations, Travel lunch or any other non-daily use and output is often best, bland-tasting foods that end up at best after two or three years intact in the garbage.
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The protection against fire and accidents in the home environment is far less expensive than the food question, although not in vain. Let's say you have at home two floors and each several potential sources of fire such as a boiler room, a kitchen, a stove or fireplace in the garden and maybe a barbecue or a fireplace. And let's say you have children who sleep in separate rooms. If you buy for each of the two floors with a fire extinguisher (powder) and at one, all the known place mount, and next to the kitchen (grease fires) have a fire blanket and in the bedrooms VdS-certified smoke detectors (especially in younger children in your own room, a central body that alerts you when it burns in children), then you have spent relatively little (created especially in relation to the burglary), but a really decent level of protection. You should invest a few more thoughts on escape routes and safety, including for example, not that no one can leave quickly from the inside the apartment or the house if necessary. And if you raise now a kind of fire drill, where everyone is out of his room or from another location in the house from the outside go have (this can especially with children can also be fun), then you are on fire protection matters very well prepared.
How about it now, if you are not only at least every two years, and better every year, refresh your first aid course and have reasonably fit for medical supplies in the house (and in the car and possibly to himself)? If you are going to shoot or even more so on a hunting trip, but also buy medical supplies and other small items and become familiar with their use, because you might with an injury or wound must help itself. Why do not you build some and keep at a central location an easy usable case for quick access ready (and not just a few plasters and bandages somewhere in a cabinet next to pharmacies all the expired drugs that have been so).
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Finally, you can maybe put before your key from the inside. If so, you may have marveled at how quickly the locksmith came in spite of you. But the latest when they one of the victims of burglaries 113 800 2009 (of which 48,401 days burglaries), you are the subject protection of the house and its inhabitants think of rising crime important. The local conditions are so different that there can be only for individual solutions and many measures are simply too expensive. In general, however, say that "suspenders and belt" have the right strategy to protect themselves, so several priorities in the areas of: light / motion, structural coverage with grilles, door reinforcements, additional locks or new, certified door systems, burglar alarm systems and use of a dog. All these measures will not only make the "Day X" is a valuable service, when "a horde want to storm hungry your house," but they help are against the very real danger, a victim of this probably about 100,000 criminals who would like your TV, your jewels and your cash either by yourself or a close look.
The following description has done precious little to do with preparation for "Day X" and not wasted their money. Without preparation, it is substantive enough to develop and not just the "right mind-set" is not where, without electricity, Water and light to sit home and wait for the pizza service but still delivers in the flood zone or in the dead of winter.
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