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72 Hour Emergency Kit — #8 Transportation.

72 Hour Emergency Kit — #8 Transportation.

72 Hour Emergency Kit — #8  Transportation        Mobility in the modern age is considered a most important essential – how else is one to get to the drive-up window?  In reality, transportation is an extension of communication.  If we can’t send the message, we may have to deliver it to get our needs filled.      Emergency planning considers the consequences of failed services essential to support transportation.  Failed electricity equals no means to pump gasoline.  Downed power lines,…

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Emergency Procedures

Emergency Procedures

     “It came on between Wells and Wendover,” explained my mother, to my irate father.  “It was only one little red light.  The smoke didn’t start ‘til later.”      I learned an early lesson when dad replaced the engine in our ’52 Buick.  “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”  That lesson was magnified during a military aviation career.  To expect the unexpected is the beginning of safety awareness.      To feel safe comes from broadening our…

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