Disaster kits with kids and teens

As a #natlprep #npm2013 public service, RantWoman has been amusing herself reviewing some of the many diverse materials available about #disaster #preparedness via the YouTube. A sampling, with annotations and commentary:

PROBABLY RantWoman's groupies in Seattle will not need to think about hurricanes right in Seattle. But RantWoman has pretty mobile groupies, some of whom visit New York City or just from time to time reflect on the peculiar ways much in New York is bigger than life in the first place. In the second place, RantWoman is conscious of the date on the calendar and anniversaries and all that can get stirred up. In the third place, RantWoman is needing to focus on small things that matter close by because RantWoman's info streams are much more full than RantWoman would prefer of rumblings in possibly bellicose directions.

So today's item includes a particular shout out to New York and lots of layers of why we prepare. This video talks about Hurricane Denny which affected New York City a few years ago, but the city and environs are still mopping up after Hurricane Sandy. RantWoman for one thinks it's darned eerie to think of subway tunnels flooded by the storm. RantWoman thinks flooded tunnels after a storm are eerie, even though if RantWoman thinks about subway tunnels and water table and islands in a river delta, flooded subway tunnels should not necessarily be that weird an idea.

But enough. This video is about people, and RantWoman knows other people like the ones in the video.

To local youth media types: what are YOU doing about preparedness?

http://youtu.be/fp1DyJsuQwU


If you don't want to talk about batteries and city realities with a dark blue octopus, how about Grover and Sesame Street make a disaster kit.
http://youtu.be/Ngez4dvv-pY

RantWoman can be quibblesome and querulous. In Grover's video he decides maybe he should take his canoe out of his family's disaster kit. In Seattle, RantWoman knows LOTS  of people who live near water or for whom a canoe might be the best path away from something in a disaster. The point: the video is good general guidance, but  real preparedness happens when people think about their specific situation and their specific needs. A canoe might take up a lot of space IN a family's disaster kit but it might be a big part of disaster planning and resilience / recovery. Word!