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An earthquake hits your town.  Power is down.  There is no outside communication available.  People are hurt, worried, and scared.  What do you do?   

Church Leaders have been telling us for years that we need to have food, clothing, and (where possible) fuel for at least one year.  My family and I have been working on following this council and commandment.  We are still a long way off, but figured our research may help others.  This page is a collection of the tools, resources, and more that we have and are using.  They are presented in no particular order.   

Top Picks   

1. Food Storage Calculator (Basic) (Requires MS Excel or the free MS Excel Viewer
2. Bee Prepared Pantry Cookbook – With ideas for effective use of the commodities suggested in your Family Home Storage.
3. Storing food in buckets – A great article with pictures on how to store food in a 5-gallon (and other size) buckets, including how to seal mylar bags with an iron.
4. Debt Snowball Calculator for Excel – A great spreadsheet to help you get out of debt using a Debt Snowball
5. Your Family Still Matters Price List – Food Storage store in St George, UT (prices updated Jan 2009)

Storage Ideas   

1. Parade of Homes – Where can I store all this stuff? (Requires MS PowerPoint or the free MS PowerPoint Viewer)
2. Food Storage Rotation Ideas – More pictures of creative home storage ideas.
3. Storing food in #10 Cans – A great article with pictures on how to store food in a # 10 can.
4. Storing food in buckets – A great article with pictures on how to store food in a 5-gallon (and other size) buckets, including how to seal mylar bags with an iron.

Food Storage Resources   

1. Food Storage Recipes Cookbook – Over 200 pags!
2. Everything Under the Sun – Solar Oven Food Storage Cookbook
3. Food Storage Calculator (Basic) (Requires MS Excel or the free MS Excel Viewer)
4. Food Storage Caculator (deluxe) (Requires MS Excel or the free MS Excel Viewer)
5. Your Family Still Matters Price List – Food Storage store in St George, UT (prices updated Jan 2009)
6. Blue Chips Group pricing – The Makers of Morning Moos and other Food Storage items
7. Obtain a 3 Month Supply of Food in 12 Weeks - 7 different meals you can rotated weekly, for 3 months.
8. Recipe Chic: Cooking with your Food Storage
9. Bee Prepared Pantry Cookbook – With ideas for effective use of the commodities suggested in your Family Home Storage.
10. Food Storage Inventory Worksheets
11. MRE Depot – When disaster strikes the time to prepare has past! (use code “ready” to get a 15% discount)
12. Heater Meals – A Hot Meal Anytime, Anyplace.

Gardening   

1. Growing Potatoes in a Trash Can – a fun, easy way to grow potatoes at your home; with very little room needed.

Water Storage   

1. In a disaster, water maybe the most important thing you store.
   FEMA minimum recommendations is 1 gallon per person per day for 3-days.
   LDS minimium recommendations is 1 gallon per person per day for 14-days.
2. Water Storage Guidelines
3. Stackable Water Barrel Holders – easy instructions on making a rack to hold your water barrels

Emergency Power   

1. Sun Ovens International – Makers of the Global Sun Oven
2. NASA – Cooking with the Sun – Make a solar oven with your kids
3. Generator Calculator – What size standby generator system do you need for your home?

Communications   

1. HamElmer’s Tech Study Guide – a great study guide
2. AmateurRadioTest – A great free downloadable Ham Radio practice test.
3. HamExamHelper – Study for your Ham Radio Exam
4. Amateur Radio Exam Practice – Online Exam Practice by AA9PW.com
5. Las Vegas Radio Amateur Club
6. Las Vegas Area Amateur Radio Exams
7. Amateur Electronic Supply- Las Vegas HAM Radio / Amateur Radio store
8. LDS Hams
9. Southern Nevada MARA Net operates a twice weekly net on VHF 147.27+ , also linked on UHF 447.30- (PL 100) Mondays at 9:00 pm and Saturdays at 8:30 AM.  If you are interested in LDS Ham Radio in Las Vegas, you should tune in.

Emergency Preparedness   

1. Recommended Items in a 72-hour kit – updated by Michael, originally by FEMA
2. Get free sand and sand bags at 2900 Ronemus Drive (Cheyenne @ Buffalo) and the corner of N. Mojave Road and Bonanza Road.  Make sure you bring a shovel!
3. Join your local Community Emergency Response Team (“CERT”) and get free training and supplies on what do do after an emergency!  Learn more at www.CitizenCorps.gov/CERT and get the Las Vegas Training Schedule at LVAlert.com
4. Emergency Financial First Aid Kit - A simple tool to help minimize the financial impact of a disaster

Medical   

1. Where There is No Doctor- if you only have 1 Medical book in your house, make it this one.           Buy It Now on Amazon!

Family Finances   

1. Debt Snowball Calculator for Excel – A great spreadsheet to help you get out of debt using a Debt Snowball
2. www.AnnualCreditReport.com – Check one check report free every 4-months and you’ll get all 3 checked each year.
3. www.CreditKarma.com – Check your credit score free!

Training & Videos   

1. Preparedness Videos – Useful videos as you prepare for what lies ahead
2. Join your local Community Emergency Response Team (“CERT”) and get free training and supplies on what do do after an emergency!  Learn more at www.CitizenCorps.gov/CERT and get the Las Vegas Training Schedule at LVAlert.com
3. My CERT training notes, posted each week during my 6-week training.

Hepful Websites   

1. Family Home Storage at ProvidentLiving.org – an Official Website of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
2. LVAlert.com – City of Las Vegas Emergency Information
3. Ready.gov – Prepare. Plan.  Stay Informed.®
4. Got Lamp Oil Forum- Discussion forums to help prepare yourself physically and spiritually
5. ProvidentSaint.com Forum – Latter-day Saint Experts on all aspects of preparedness.
6. Whats Your RQ? – Find out what your “Readiness Quotent is and what you need to do to improve.  Mine is a 7/10!

Do you know of other resources, tools, websites, training, etc that are blog worthy?  Let me know by posting a comment on this page or by using our Contact Page.   

Check back often as I update this page often.
You can also check out my Blog posts about Preparedness.   

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