Our General Store…Tissues and more

I am so excited to share with you today the great weekend our family had. On Saturday there was a HamCram class scheduled in our area. I told you a few months ago that I got my ham license and we are now very involved with our church’s ham net. We are preparing everything we need to be able to help during a local disaster. It happened that our family was in town last week for a family reunion and our daughter, her husband, our son and his wife and two of our grandchildren decided they wanted to be able to keep in touch with us during an emergency so they all attended the class. They all passed! Our 11 year old grandson was one of the first to finish the test and our 8 year old grand daughter was the youngest in our area to ever pass. We are so proud of all of them! What a blessing when thinking forward to an emergency to know we will have several who can communicate their situation to us, hundreds of miles away. Recently a friend needed to contact her husband who was on a 50 mile hike with their son’s scout troop. Her father had had a heart attach and it took three days to notify her husband. A ham radio operator in the group could have saved her from all the stress of not being able to reach her husband. Amateur radio is great, try it!

Now to our General Store. This week we are again going to add a non food items which you will not want to be without should a pandemic force you to self quarantine this fall. You should have calculated the number of rolls of toilet paper you need to have to complete a three month supply. If you have not already done this do it now. Use the same method you did to determine the amount of oil, toothpaste, shampoo, etc. you need. Since it is important ot get some stored right now begin this week by adding 4 rolls of TP per family member and 2 boxes of facial tissue per family member to your General Store.

We will get back on track with the food in our General Store in a few weeks. Since we already have a months supply of food, sufficient to make it through a self quaratine,  it is important to add non food items now, just in case the H1N1 becomes the next crisis we face.  No one want to live without TP!

Having just hosted family for a week I have become very aware of just how much food and other supplies you can go through in a very short amount of time. We have prepared in case some of our family has to quarantine with us. If you may find yourself in that situation I suggest you plan now and stock a few more items than your immediate family will require. The foods and non food items we are stocking in our General Store willl all last for several years, or more if you do not have to use them so why not stock up, just in case someone shows up on your doorstep needing your help. We stock up if we think family may be seeking refuge during a hurricane threat so treat your pandemic preparations in the same way.

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