A friend shared a link with me today to a website called Harden Up Queensland.
Weather events are getting more severe and when a major weather event hits, you cannot rely on government and volunteer organisations help. You need to harden up by preparation, awareness and helping others.We’ve been working on evacuation bags. This is something new for us, even living in a flood-prone area for 12 years, we never packed a specific evac bag. It just seems to be popping into my consciousness everywhere lately - discussions with friends, in print media, blogs, newspapers, suggestions from local government… So here we are figuring out what to pack, what to pack it in, where to store the bags and so on.
The Harden Up site has some good resources for children. During the time we’ve been collecting items for our evacuation bags, our children have been asking lots of questions about possible scenarios where we’d need to evacuate. We live in a cyclone area, but are not prone to floods, bushfire, tsunami or other more common extreme weather events here.
The site offers some great checklists for evacuation and emergency preparedness, I recommend you check it out.