Plans

Between the local crisis of the knife fight and the national crisis of the Fort Hood shooting, I've been thinking about the fact that I have no emergency plan.

Back when I was still married and we all lived together and worked on the same island and I was at home, our emergency plan was pretty direct and clear.

But we're divorced now, and I work on a different land mass than my kids go to school in, and their dad works a good 5 miles away from both of their schools, and we have no emergency plan anymore. If their dad does, I don't know what it is.

That has to change.

I am putting this up to force myself to come up with a solid, concrete plan and then work on it with my kids' dad to make sure it works for all of us. And also to force you all to reevaluate your plans, or make them if you never did.

What if something happened at your workplace? Your spouse's workplace? Your children's schools? Your city? How would you communicate? Where would you meet? What records would you have with you?

What other questions do we need to ask ourselves?

If anyone has good plans, would you post them (obviously take out specific locations) so the rest of us can get an idea of how you work it? Thank you.

My first task is to figure out how I could walk from Long Island City to Manhattan...

Comments

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@ Angie, my deepest condolences.

In terms of a plan, I started mulling this over before I gave birth because my daughter's father doesn't want to be involved with us, so if something happened to me, I needed a plan.

I chose a guardian and back-up outside the family, and discussed it with everyone, knowing that it could all be enormously complicated by her father, if he decided he wanted to be a father.

There's a trust, life insurance, etc. I do need to buy a fireproof lockbox.

We live in Indiana, so our disasters are tornadoes and snow mostly. We seem to lose power sometimes, so we've got a fireplace with plenty of wood, candles, etc.

Amen to being poor and having an obscene amount of food!

Overall, I'm feeling relatively on top of things, but after reading everyone's comments, I realize I don't have very much red wine at all.

And yes, I've been thinking "mmmmmm, brains" every time I read zombies!!

[Mog]

http://www.ready.gov/america/getakit/

My parents made emergency kits (and plans) when they lived near a big slow-burning fire in Santa Barbara. Their best advice for the kit: put the kit supply list on top, in the kit, so you can check it every 6 months and replace the water. Compromise on the kit contents to make it fit in a container you can manage. (Mid-size rolling rigid plastic footlockers in my parents' case.)

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