{"id":189,"date":"2011-10-25T15:30:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T22:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/?p=189"},"modified":"2011-10-25T15:30:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T22:30:54","slug":"preparing-for-a-natural-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/2011\/10\/25\/preparing-for-a-natural-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for a natural disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the event of a natural disaster you need to be prepared to take care of yourself for 72 hours.\u00a0 It&#8217;s possible that there may not be cell phones, power or water.\u00a0 The best way to prepare is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getprepared.gc.ca\/knw\/plan\/plan-eng.aspx\">make a personal evacuation plan<\/a> and to have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getprepared.gc.ca\/knw\/kt\/bas-eng.aspx\">basic emergency kit.<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here are the recommended items for your basic kit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/files\/2011\/10\/emergency-KIT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-190\" title=\"emergency KIT\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/files\/2011\/10\/emergency-KIT-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/files\/2011\/10\/emergency-KIT-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/files\/2011\/10\/emergency-KIT.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> Water <\/strong>\u2013 two litres of water per person per day (Include small bottles that can be carried easily in case of an evacuation order)<\/li>\n<li><strong> Food <\/strong>\u2013 that won&#8217;t spoil, such as canned food, energy bars and dried foods (remember to replace the food and water once a year)<\/li>\n<li><strong> Manual can opener <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flashlight and batteries <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong> Battery\u2013powered or wind\u2013up radio<\/strong> (and extra batteries)<\/li>\n<li><strong>First aid kit<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Special needs items<\/strong> \u2013 prescription medications, infant formula or equipment for people with disabilities<\/li>\n<li><strong>Extra keys<\/strong> \u2013 for your car and house<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cash<\/strong> \u2013 include smaller bills, such as $10 bills (travellers cheques are also useful) and change for payphones<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getprepared.gc.ca\/knw\/plan\/plan-eng.aspx\">Emergency plan<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 include a copy of it and ensure it contains in\u2013town and out\u2013of\u2013town c ontact information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Information provided from <a href=\"www.getprepared.ca\">www.getprepared.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the event of a natural disaster you need to be prepared to take care of yourself for 72 hours.\u00a0 It&#8217;s possible that there may not be cell phones, power or water.\u00a0 The best way to prepare is to make a personal evacuation plan and to have a basic emergency kit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349616,3200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gage","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/waltergage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}