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Studying emergency management has made me a little paranoid. Here are a few items to prepare for the likely hazards that surround us every day (e.g. transportation-related chemical spills, your subway car being disabled a couple hours, your home losing utilities for a few days).
Honestly, stash bandaids anywhere you might hurt yourself (in the office, in every bag you carry, in the pockets of coats you wear when doing something active).
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Triangle Bandages: Triangle bandages have a million uses, and are a handy tool for dressing a variety of wounds.
First Alert Carbon Monoxide Detector: Carbon monoxide is colorless, odorless, and will kill you in your sleep. Everyone should have a Carbon Monoxide detector in their home.
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Orbit Emergency Tool: It's important to be able to quickly and safely shut off your utilities (in case of a gas leak, water contamination, etc.). This handy tool will work on your water main and gas intake shutoff, and is made of non-sparking metal so you won't blow yourself up.
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Hosa 2-inch Gaffers Tape 60 Yards, Black: You should have a handy means of sealing your home against airborne contaminants in the case of an emergency (e.g. chlorine spill nearby). Gaffer's tape is stronger than Duct Tape and less likely to leave a sticky residue behind.
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Surgical Masks: These compact little masks fit take up no room in your bag and are effective at minimizing the impact of brief exposure to many types of irritants (smoke, chemicals, etc) from entering your airways. Buy them, stash one in each of your bags, then forget about it until you need it.
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Bottled Water (by the gallon): There are a variety of reasons you may wish you had fresh water on hand at home. Minor reasons include tap water advisories (like DC had this week), or disaster scenarios in which you are confined to your home and utilities no longer function. Bottled Water is super cheap. Peapod will sell you a gallon for a dollar. Go buy two gallons for each member of your household, stick them somewhere out of the way, and forget about them until you need them.
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Snacks: You're going to get stuck somewhere and get hungry. This is a fact. Keep a small snack in every bag you carry.
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Dewalt Work Gloves: Work gloves are a good idea for a lot of activities. Oh, and they cost nothing.
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Leatherman Fuse (w/o knife): You should always have a multitool nearby. The trouble is (especially if you live in DC) a lot of buildings aren't keen on letting you in with a knife. Luckily this leatherman doesn't have a blade, so if you don't mind explaining yourself to security all the time, you're good to go!
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Freezer Fail Detector: Here's a simple one: what happens if your power goes out while you're on vacation? Well your food will thaw, then go bad, then refreeze, and you'll be none the wiser when you go to eat it. The freezer fail detector is just a jar filled half-way with water then frozen on its side. Put the jar upright and glance at it whenever you open your freezer. No more salmonella!
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Angela Tremback Hey, does anyone know if this still works with self defrosting freezers?
Jacqui Quevillon I was wondering that myself.
Geoff Dudgeon Never had a problem myself -- I'd be worried if defrosting freezers brought the whole freeze chamber above 0/32 long enough for its contents to thaw.
Jacqui Quevillon haha, oh yeah... that's true! thanks :)
3M "N-95" Mask: N-95's belong in your car's glove compartment and in your home. While basic filtration is not enough to protect you from prolonged exposure to harmful agents, even something as simple as this cheap, disposable mask can greatly reduce your vulerability to all sorts of common, nasty agents (from smoke and chemical fumes to low concentrations of chlorine or sarin) while you remove yourself from a harmful situation.
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Leatherman Monarch 400: You should basically always have a small flashlight in your bag, no matter where you are. Good, bright lights with decent battery life are so cheap now that there's no excuse to be caught in the dark.
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CERT Basic Kit: This is the basic kit given to anyone who graduates from a Community Emergency Response Team training. It's a decent start and contains a few items any home should have (e.g. work gloves, flashlight, etc.)
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Emergency by Neil Strauss: This definitely isn't a technical manual, but it is a pretty good (entertaining read), and somewhat informative.
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Marie Mitcham-Clark LMAO...I definately need these....