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An extended electrical outage doesn't phase you! You
just trot out to the garden shed and bring in the
camp stove and fuel, dig out the Hot Chocolate and
water pot from the camp kitchen, and have the kids
find the Coleman lanterns - then sit on the porch in
the evening and watch the stars come out, instead of
another dumb TV show!
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You set up a solar stove and an apple-box oven for
cooking at home in summer.
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You have the sharpest knife in the neighborhood
because you taught 45 women how to sharpen it in a
knife safety mini-class at Home, Family and Personal
Enrichment meeting.
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You go to the hall closet and (10) 72-hr packs fall
on your head.
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Your husband brings home the old copier from work,
fixes it up, and gives it to you so that you don't
have to keep running to the copy store every week to
make copies of preparedness articles, Dutch oven
recipes, water storage ideas, etc. for your
Preparedness Binder.
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Your husband comes home from work early every
Tuesday so that he can watch your 4 year old
daughter while you are out purchasing all the "For
Sale" items for your food storage.
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You scrutinize your food and water storage inventory
lists and have them committed to memory but couldn't
guess what your checking account balance is at any
one point in time.
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You go through an evacuation practice and pitch a
tent in the back yard and camp out with the kids.
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After the hurricane knocks out your power you are
happy as a clam cooking for the neighbors with your
buddy burner stove and apple-box oven.
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You buy a storage shed just to have enough room to
keep Emergency Preparedness Supplies.
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For a Family Night activity you roast mini
marshmallows on a paper clip over a candle to make
mini S'mores while singing, "We Will Survive".
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You design and build a fire pit in your back yard to
practice building a fire with your dryer-lint
fire-starters.
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All your emergency preparedness articles are nicely
organized by color in an Emergency Preparedness
Binder, and the family pictures are in shoeboxes!
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In looking for a new home, you try to find one that
has an extra room to store your preparedness stuff
in!!
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You have your city's Emergency Response phone number
on speed dial.
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The last 20 times you have gotten a babysitter it
was so that you could attend Survival Training
Meetings and events and not once for a night out
with your hubby!
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You have at least one saucepan that is a little
black round the outside, despite hours of scrubbing.
