Kent Arnspiger
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Kent Arnspiger is the Owner and President of Off The Grid Ready. With more than thirty years experience as an outdoor enthusiast enjoying activities like hunting, fishing, camping, hiking and an extensive background in survival skills and knowledge, I decided to follow my passion and create a online retail store offering products to help you and your family plan, prepare and survive common emergencies. Off The Grid Ready has the Emergency Survival Kits and Emergency Preparedness Supplies you'll need for going off the grid to take care of your family and loved ones. We also carry survival gear, long term food storage, freeze dried food, disaster kits and preparedness kits. When you visit our site (http://www.otgready.com), be sure and sign up for our newsletter to keep informed about important topics and to learn about new survival products we are continually adding to our online store.
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Most grocery stores have approximately three days worth of food on their shelves; and as experience has shown, when an emergency event is coming, these shelves will be depleted rapidly within a matter of minutes. So, to prepare and secure your families survival a food storage plan should be part of your overall emergency preparedness planning. Living in an urban area presents unique challenges to preparing for these events such as growing your own food for food storage in a long term emergency.
Personal items can often be forgotten in emergencies. It's best to add personal items to an emergency kit when performing emergency preparedness planning. As each person is different and has varying needs, this article provides some suggestions and a helpful list to insure you have what you need to survive and to be as comfortable as the situation will allow.
Preparedness can be a moderately short process for you or it may become a lifestyle depending upon what you are anticipating to occur and your belief the event will be for an extended period of time. Being prepared can be achieved with few mistakes, time efficiency and lower amounts of money by relying on experienced people and gaining the right knowledge from reliable resources. We are here to help you in this process and appreciate hearing from
September is National Preparedness Month and is being promoted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). They have a very informative site with some great tips on being prepared at Ready.gov. We are helping to promote this site with a link from our home page and with this newsletter to assist in getting the word out and to help our customers in your preparedness planning.
Many native skills have been lost over the years as we become more dependent on technology and one of these in navigation. Before there were GPS systems, maps that you can print from the Internet, mass produced printed maps and even before compasses, people had to rely on their skills and the sky for directions. One of the tools used for night navigation was the North Star also known as Polaris.
