PREPAREDNESS... how did you rate

I will tell you the Geliske family was reminded that you never know when you need to be ready.

For right now I am referring to the physical preparedness with the storm we all experienced this past week.

Tayden was about to COOK dinner when the power went out.

The kids had fun looking for and lighting candles when darkness hit.

We had all of $17 in cash between me and Tayden. (until we pulled out the 72 hour kits)

Our cars were half full with gas at best... Terry has a story to tell on that one.

I finished the last pieces of bread for the days lunches and was going to the grocery store the next morning. The fact is we were hungry NOW.

We had plenty of food in the pantry and in the freezer that would have COOKED up great.

We buy flashlights every summer for girls camp - had NO IDEA where any of them were.

Kriss goes and gets the 72 hour kits that we put together a couple years ago and MOM had taken food and water out of it when the expiration dates came to pass... and never replaced them. We had a couple dollars in each back pack that we started collecting many moons ago and
each backpack had toothbrushes, ibuprofen, and a few odds and ends.

We started calling other visiting teaching and home teaching families as well as the families we knew were close to where we lived and our business families to make sure everyone was accounted for... until the cell phone batteries went dead.

The good news is we were able to go to the grocery store and buy a cooked roasted chicken and some fruit and water with our debit card and we were able to fill the gas tanks. and we made it a party.

I was looking this morning and realized I had atleast 24 cans of tuna and chicken that we could have mixed up and eaten with forks (no bread - remember) and we had several cans of fruit and vegetables that we could have eaten at room temperature. We had protein shakes and bars and different prepared food items in our business office. We had candles stored away and batteries... we would have fared fine for several days but it made us think.

It is definitely time for the Geliske family to refill those 72 hour kits, reevaluate our food storage, and pay attention to the emergency preparedness packet that the ward made for us several months ago.

How did you all fare!