Are You Ready? Emergency Preparedness Week 2022

 

Thunder Mountain & the Oldman River (photo by V.A. McMillan, 2022)

Are You Ready? Emergency Preparedness Week 2022

Hard to imagine it is already emergency preparedness week, again, here in Canuckistan. Last year was a very turbulent year between floods and wildfires, and 2022 will likely have more of the same challenges to keep Canadians on their toes. So, ARE YOU READY??

For those south of Calgary, on Saturday 07 May 2022, from 1000h – 1500h CERT Canada will be hosting an open house at their headquarters building in High River, Alberta (#6, 609 Centre St. SW | High River, AB) to conclude emergency preparedness week. They will be sharing information on the CERT program and how you can become involved in emergency preparedness in your own neighbourhood or community. I will be attending this event and copies of The GOOD Plan – Get Out Of Dodge will be available for purchase, at $20 a copy.

 

Public Safety Canada offers some generic emergency preparedness information at their website. Here are a few links that you may find interesting and hopefully helpful:

https://www.getprepared.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/ep-wk/index-en.aspx

https://www.getprepared.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/yprprdnssgd/index-en.aspx

https://www.getprepared.gc.ca/cnt/hzd/index-en.aspx

https://www.getprepared.gc.ca/cnt/plns/mk-pln-en.aspx

https://www.getprepared.gc.ca/cnt/kts/index-en.aspx

As readers of this blog might recall I have posted some helpful information, too, as well as a few helpful posts from The GOOD Plan Blog. Here are those links:

https://thegoodplanblog.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-rule-of-3s.html

https://thegoodplanblog.blogspot.com/2018/02/sip-good-inch-three-parts-of-family.html

https://mtnmanblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/adapt-improvise-overcome-survival.html

https://thegoodplanblog.blogspot.com/2021/01/emergency-readiness-readiness-endurance.html

https://thegoodplanblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-good-plan-get-out-of-dodge-part-1.html

https://mtnmanblog.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-good-plan-available-on-amazon.html

https://thegoodplanblog.blogspot.com/2019/07/evacuation-checklist-appendix-n-for.html

https://thegoodplanblog.blogspot.com/2022/03/neighbourhood-defence-tabletop-exercise.html

https://mtnmanblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/four-squares-to-resource-management.html

https://thegoodplanblog.blogspot.com/2019/08/urban-go-bag-pack-lists.html

Remember when the chips are down, and the skies are raining cats and dogs and the river is rising, only YOU can ensure you and your family survive!! Know your hazards! Make a PLAN! Build your Go! Bag! And always be ready to action your plan!! Disasters do not wait for you and certainly do not accept timeouts, so you can get ready.

Until next time…It is up to you to be prepared.

 

Mountainman.