Yay!! I'm so excited to start participating again in the Homestead Revival's Preparedness Challenge! It's the perfect timing too... We have moved into another rental house with no basement and we need to re-think our tornado preparedness plan.
So let's just get down to business shall we? The following lays out our family's plan in case of a tornado warning.
Emergency Kit (to be kept in the bathroom):
3 gallons of water
Blankets
First Aid Kit
Flashlight
Helmet for our son
Jar of Peanut butter
Crackers
If there is a tornado WATCH prepare bathroom with:
Weather radio
Large couch cushion
Line bathtub with a blanket and pillows
Bag of building blocks for our son
Additional Snacks, water bottle for our son
Take helmet out of emergency kit and place into the bathtub
Put cats in crate and into the bathroom
If there is a tornado WARNING we will:
Gather in the bathroom
Put helmet on our son
Our son can play with blocks in the bathtub
If it's nighttime we can lay our son in the bathtub with blankets and pillows
TRY and bring our pup into the bathroom with us
If a tornado TOUCHES DOWN:
All of us into the bathtub
Mommy shelters boy
Daddy shelters mommy
Daddy pulls large couch cushion over all three of us
Pray
My husband and I are very happy with this plan and hope that it won't need to be utilized too much. We live in a large county where if there is a tornado warning and sirens are going off it still may be several miles away from us... hence the building blocks for our son. I remember last year having to be down in our basement for a while as sirens were going off but nothing of course ever came near us. Now that our son is older I know he will be bored during those times and I figure building blocks will keep his mind off the fact that he has to be sitting in a tub with no water just waiting.
As of right now we only have one helmet for our son that we found for $2 at the thrift store... Our plan is to keep an eye out for more for my husband and I. This is our son's helmet...
So let's just get down to business shall we? The following lays out our family's plan in case of a tornado warning.
Emergency Kit (to be kept in the bathroom):
3 gallons of water
Blankets
First Aid Kit
Flashlight
Helmet for our son
Jar of Peanut butter
Crackers
If there is a tornado WATCH prepare bathroom with:
Weather radio
Large couch cushion
Line bathtub with a blanket and pillows
Bag of building blocks for our son
Additional Snacks, water bottle for our son
Take helmet out of emergency kit and place into the bathtub
Put cats in crate and into the bathroom
If there is a tornado WARNING we will:
Gather in the bathroom
Put helmet on our son
Our son can play with blocks in the bathtub
If it's nighttime we can lay our son in the bathtub with blankets and pillows
TRY and bring our pup into the bathroom with us
If a tornado TOUCHES DOWN:
All of us into the bathtub
Mommy shelters boy
Daddy shelters mommy
Daddy pulls large couch cushion over all three of us
Pray
My husband and I are very happy with this plan and hope that it won't need to be utilized too much. We live in a large county where if there is a tornado warning and sirens are going off it still may be several miles away from us... hence the building blocks for our son. I remember last year having to be down in our basement for a while as sirens were going off but nothing of course ever came near us. Now that our son is older I know he will be bored during those times and I figure building blocks will keep his mind off the fact that he has to be sitting in a tub with no water just waiting.
As of right now we only have one helmet for our son that we found for $2 at the thrift store... Our plan is to keep an eye out for more for my husband and I. This is our son's helmet...
I hope our plan could help some of you think about what your plans are... especially if you do not have basements. Feel free to make any suggestions as we are new to tornadoes and easily may have missed something.
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Also make sure to check out Homestead Revival for other preparedness challenge posts.
