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Create an Emergency Plan for Your Family

The last step I would recommend is practicing your plan! We all grew up doing fire drills at school about once a month, so that if a real one happened, we would know what to do. There is a reason we did that, so we already had the automatic response. We want to create that in our homes too.

After creating your plan, make sure that each family member knows where to go, and what to do for each type of emergency. Can everyone get out? Can everyone fit in the space selected for tornado shelter? Where would you meet if you evacuated the house? Having practices and meetings sets routines for these situations so everyone knows what to do, and helps relieve some of the anxiety that comes with them.

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10 Tips to Stretch Your Dollars

Temporal / latterdaydisciples

Money is tight these days, isn’t it? I personally teach a private homeschool group, so our budget is tighter in the summer than the rest of the year, so I know we are definitely feeling the pinch of price increases right now. 1- Track Your Spending It’s so important to check in with your money

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Drops in Our Lamp | Preparing for a Recession

Temporal / latterdaydisciples

I remember being in high school when the last major recession started. House prices tanked, people lost jobs, and gas prices rose. There are rumors that a recession is coming, or that we may already be in one, because a recession is two consecutive quarters that the national GDP is in decline. According to a

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Staying Warm or Keeping Cool in a Blackout

Temporal / latterdaydisciples

Welcome to part four of our blackout preparedness series. We’ve talked about food, lighting and protecting our homes, and now it’s time to talk about what to do about surviving the cold or the heat, depending on the time of year, and where we live.

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Keeping the Lights on in the Darkness

Temporal / latterdaydisciples

It’s time for part three of our power outage series! This week, how to fortify our homes in the case of an extended power crisis. Our homes have so much that rely on electricity. So as we prepare, we need to think about what we need to keep our families safe and their needs met.

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Feeding Your Family in a Power Outage

Temporal / latterdaydisciples

Cooking in a Blackout Written by Cheri Stirling Hey friends! Last week I left you with a lot of questions to think about should there ever be a power grid failure, storm, or something else that causes our power to go down. I know, it was a lot to process, just thinking about how

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What If I was in a Power Outage?

Temporal / latterdaydisciples

What if I Was in a Blackout? Written by Cheri Stirling I think that all of us recognize that our world is reliant on technology. We need power to run our homes, vehicles, and offices. Most of our businesses are run using the internet. School’s depend on technology for lessons, curriculum materials and grading. Have

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Five Health Benefits of Water

Physical Health / latterdaydisciples

Did you know that it is estimated that 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated? The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has recommended that women drink 11.5 cups and men drink 15.5 cups of liquids a day. This includes liquids that are not water, and fruits or foods that contain waters as well.

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Let’s Talk About Eggs

Temporal / latterdaydisciples

Many of you have probably heard about the Avian Flu outbreak that we are currently experiencing. The current death toll on our nation’s poultry industry is currently about 36 million birds. Some grocery stores are already feeling the affects of this devastating loss in our supply chain. With so many birds gone, and inflation rising,

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Ten Items to Add to Your Home Storage

Temporal / latterdaydisciples

We’ve talked about how part of the reason we want our food storage is to help us maintain our regular standard of living as long as we can in an emergency. When we experience uncertain times in our lives, there is a tension that arises, and the more of our every day normal we can maintain, the more we can manage that. In addition to food, we are all accustomed to certain other things that keep our home running smoothly. As we are working to build our food storage up, we should also think about the non-food things we use everyday, so that we can lessen the interruptions to our lives even more.

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