As I type this, there are over 16 large wildfires currently burning across northern and southern California. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been displaced. Millions are without power.
My hometown of Sebastopol, CA underwent mandatory evacuation at 4am Saturday night. I jumped into the car, along with our life essentials and our pets, joining the 200,000 souls displaced from Sonoma County this weekend.
Even though I write about preparedness for a living, fleeing your home in the dead of night with a raging inferno clearly visible on the horizon drives home certain lessons more effectively than any other means.
I’d like to share those learnings with you, as they’re true for any sort of emergency: natural (fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, blizzard, etc), financial (market crash, currency crisis) or social (revolution, civil unrest, etc).
Source: https://www.peakprosperity.com/survival-learnings-from-a-california-fire-evacuee/
Adam Taggart is one of the thousands who had to evacuate because of a California wildfire. And even though he’s written a book on emergency preparedness, he made mistakes. If someone who makes his living from preparedness can get it wrong, what about you? How would you react in an emergency?
Check out the article he posted. Then think about how what he writes about his experience might help you to prepare for an emergency that might affect you and your family.
photo from linked article