Preparing emergency food supplies doesn’t have to be difficult; to help, we’ve put together some basic guidelines on what to keep in mind while putting together your non-perishables. Perhaps you have a list of what should be in your hurricane food supply kit, but suppose you want to know how many days you should […]
How will you get weather information if you don’t have power? The NOAA Weather Radio can be the information source you need when and if the storm hits…
It’s still early in Hurricane Season 2008, and we’ve had five named storms so far. We’re off to a fairly busy start, aren’t we? When you […]
Rabbit ears are today’s lucky addition to your hurricane kit (so hop to it).
Television is an important medium to receive your local hurricane forecast, shelter information, road closures and other important emergency management information. However, most televisions today get their signal from cable or satellite providers, not from a VHF television antenna. If the […]
When hurricanes knock out power, we quickly become a cash society.
Most ATMs and credit cards will be useless, leaving you with only cash to pay for needed supplies.
At OneStorm, we’ve gone back and forth many times about whether or not to add “Cash” to our preparedness checklists. Currently, we do not. We believe that it […]
With the movement to cordless and cellular telephones, fewer and fewer homes remain equipped with this hurricane kit essential - a corded telephone. How many phones in your house plug into both the telephone jack AND into a power outlet? If it’s cordless, has an answering machine, caller ID or any other feature beyond making […]
Ziploc Big Bags - This season’s plastic, fantastic hurricane accessory (4 out of 4 stars)
On a trip home to Philadelphia to celebrate my birthday, I had the dilemma of transporting 4 bottles of wine in an airplane. I had one suitcase, and one carry-on that could not contain liquids (a la TSA). I could just […]
Aqua Pod Kit - It’s like Orbitz for your bathtub. (4 out of 4 stars)
Today we’re going to put one of the more recent hurricane preparedness inventions to the test - the Aqua Pod Kit emergency water storage device. I picked up one for myself at the National Hurricane Conference this year. Let’s begin […]
Bleach has always been the item that everyone knows they should have, but couldn’t tell you why. Besides getting out those stubborn grass stains, it could come in handy after a hurricane. How so? Glad you asked. Let’s turn it over to the FDA for some insight:
Hurricanes, especially if accompanied by a tidal surge or […]
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