Here is an excellent posting on the blog The Back Bench.

Emergency Unpreparedness
By Aaron Johnston September 28, 2005

Ring! Ring!

I pick up the phone. “Hello?”

“Yes,” say two female voices in unison. “This is Katrina and Rita with your wake-up call.”

It’s sad that it has taken two catastrophic hurricanes to remind me of how incredibly unprepared I am for an emergency, but it’s true. Were an earthquake to strike in my neck of the woods tomorrow–and that’s the most likely natural disaster to confront me since my family and I live near a fault line–I’d be waterless, food-less, flashlight-less, helpless.

In short, I got nothing packed.

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Here is a great link I wanted to share with you. It’s an online food storage calculator, by those find folks at the LDS centered ProvidentLiving.org website.

Food Storage Calculator

There is an incredible amount of other great info, from lifestyle, to emergency preparedness, to 72 hours kits, and a whole lot more…all free.

Check it out!

Rich

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US Mormons prepare for worst by storing supplies
By Laura Zuckerman

REXBURG, Idaho (Reuters) - On a mild October day, disaster seems unlikely to strike this Mormon outpost in Idaho but that does not stop residents from preparing for the worst.

In the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, many Americans have begun to ponder how they would cope with major disaster. But for many of Rexburg, Idaho’s 22,000 residents — roughly 90 percent of whom are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — the question of who will provide if calamity strikes has long been settled.

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US Mormons prepare for worst by storing supplies