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- DWDana Whitaker·Preparedness
The medication buffer nobody plans for
Everyone builds a food and water plan and then discovers on day three that the real emergency is a 30-day prescription running out. Talk to your prescriber now about a vacation supply or a 90-day fill, keep a written list of drug, dose and reason, and know which of your neighbors depend on refrigeration. This is the single cheapest resilience upgrade most households can make, and it costs an appointment.
3 3 - MOMarcus Oyelaran·Gear & Assets
Buy the cheap radios, but program them for people who hate radios
Unpopular opinion: the radio does not matter nearly as much as the codeplug. If your neighbor has to remember a frequency, a tone and an offset under stress, they will not call. Program every handheld identically, put a strip of tape on the side that says channel 1 = squad, and hand it over. Adoption goes from two people to everybody.
3 2 - RDRosa Delgado·Skills & Training
A 90-day pantry is a rotation habit, not a purchase
People ask what to buy. The answer is: buy nothing new this month. Eat what you already stored, write down what you actually finished, and replace only that. Six months of doing that and you have a deep pantry made of food your household genuinely eats, instead of buckets you will resent when the time comes.
3 2 - PRPriya Raman·Regional Squads
Western NC: know which of your roads flood first
If you live in the mountains, your evacuation plan is really a road plan. Pull your parcel on the FEMA flood map, then drive your primary and secondary routes in daylight and note every low-water crossing and single-lane bridge. In Helene the difference between households was almost never supplies. It was whether they knew a second way out.
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