Why You Need A 12 Month Food Supply
Have you ever stopped to consider how you would be able to care for your family if your community was hit by a disaster? Do you know what you would do if the services you depend on were damaged? How sure are you that, in the event of a calamity, you would be able to survive?
No one can predict natural disasters, such as flooding, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, winter storms or hurricanes? All we can say that these happen regularly and that some areas of the world will always be more susceptible to them. In the United States many areas exist at a continual risk from earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes. That they will strike at some point is simply a fact of life. We just don't know when or where.
Many experts suspect that human interventions in the environment have created the conditions for an increased number of these natural disasters. Whether you subscribe to this point of view or not, what is clear is that, due to the way modern society is organized, the potential repercussions of a natural disaster have become much more profound.
When you add to this the increased potential for man-made disasters to be more widespread and more damaging than any time in history, there is, perhaps, a good reason that so many people are contemplating what they would do in the event of such an event. The question that is at the forefront of their minds is how they would survive without access to food, water, and electricity for weeks, months, or even a year?
It is not only the media which is asking people to think about what to do if disaster strikes. The recommendation comes from the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Red Cross. Their considered advice it that you should store sufficient food and water supplies to enable you to provide for your family in the event of an emergency.