The goal with the 7 Day Challenge is to explore and evaluate how prepared we are for whatever emergencies may come our way. Try to participate to the EXTENT POSSIBLE with your entire family. It is okay to modify the scenario to fit the needs/schedule/circumstances of your family. And, if the most that you can do on a given day is walk through the scenario in your head and discuss it with your family – that’s ok! Anything is better than nothing! Please make sure to:
*Fill out the Data Form on a Daily basis.
*Log onto http://www.eastvaleprepared.blogspot.com/ and answer the questions and leave comments. This will help us to analyze and understand the results of the 7 Day Challenge (everyone should do this - even if you are not a member of our ward, and even if you just walk through the scenario in your head).
*Participate in the ongoing discussion on Facebook (Eastvale Prepared) - Click on the 'Discussion' Tab. Share pictures, your experience, thoughts, ideas, and insights. Let’s learn from each other!
Monday
DAY 1: NATURAL DISASTER – IT’S A FIRE!
There have been fires in your area and everyone in your city has been told to evacuate their homes for part of the day.
DAILY LIMITATIONS AND TASKS:
•For this day, and ALL days of the challenge: no spending money, no going to stores, and no restaurants.
•You have to “leave” your house within an hour from the time you start for at least 4 hours (but you don’t know if your house is going to be there when you get back).
•You can only grab what is in your disasters kit/72 hour kit and ALREADY on your grab list when you leave. *remember your house may be destroyed when you get back
•You have to eat the food from your 72 hour kit while you are gone.
•During evacuation, one of your family members cuts their toe open.
•Your spouse is at work. You have to meet at your pre-determined meeting location when he or she is done with work.
•Once your whole family reunites you can return to your house.
ADVANCED REQUIREMENTS (for anyone who feels up to it)
•You have to stay out of your house until it’s bed time.
•You can only eat your 72 hour kit food the whole day.
•You forgot your cell phone at home when you evacuated.
REMEMBER, TOMORROW’S LIMITATIONS AND TASKS WILL BE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. How long would you have lasted under these conditions? Are you prepared so that you can pick up and go if you need to? Is your 72 hour kit prepared?
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I spent the morning getting 72hr kits put together for my two boys so when Jeff gets home from work we can evacuate. Glad we did this. It finally gave me the motivation to get the boys backpack organized.
ReplyDeleteI was glad that we had to review this - I have been doing most of the Emergency Prep stuff for our family - and some things I just expected they would know or I've told them and they forgot. We had a nice review session :) - and I still thought of things that I forgot on my grab list, and things that could help the process go smoother.
ReplyDeleteAs our family talked about what our assignments would be in the event of an emergency, our Sydney started crying and we asked her what was wrong. She said she wouldn't be able to clean her room in time to escape the fire. So, we're each family member is being involved in walking through this. We showed everyone where to turn off electric, gas and water. It was also good to talk about an evacuation versus our home actually being on fire. I learned a lot about our children asking them what they would grab first in the event of an evacuation. We added a few things to our grab list we didn't originally consider.
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