Are truly prepared for emergencies? The Japanese earthquake and tsunami tragedy has really hit home in the Vancouver B.C. area of Canada and many persons are rushing to stock up and emergency food rations and supplies. A good idea!
No matter where you live our climate is changing so much and creating such unexpectedly wild weather it is good to make sure that you really are prepared. Many of us keep putting off even the smallest of emergency prepared such as installing a rope ladder near windows and third floor bedrooms and ending up being unable to get out when fire erupts. Don't let this happen to you!
And don't install such things and other emergency equipment -- but put off critical practice in using them. Just having something -- whether it is a skill or piece of equipment is not going to help if you are not skilled in its use.
Years ago in some police officers found this out the hard way. Being mainly traffic control officers they never actually fired their weapons for years. Then when they suddenly encountered violent criminals they were practically helpless to defend themselves and others properly. I'm sure such things don't happen nowadays, but that left these officers in quit e a predicament -- one that could have cost them their lives.
Don't let things like lack of practice with your emergency equipment or skills create dangerous situations for you. Many security officers are guilty of this. After they finish their initial self-defense training they forget all about in many cases. While many of them get away with this for years and nothing happens one day it could cost them and it takes just one person (or emergency of some sort) after years and years of nothing happening to make you regret lack of preparedness.
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