emergency supplies

Preparation is the best defense against the demons of disaster. If a fire, flood, hurricane, or earthquake happened right now -- and this week's two out of three ain't bad -- how prepared would you be to deal with the aftermath?

With the recent earthquakes and tsunami in Japan, there's a renewed interest in being prepared for disaster. Even a power outage of a day or two can wreak havoc, especially in colder climes, so it pays to be prepared for an emergency. Stocking up on the following essentials now will mean you and...

Get a free food sample from Prepare then Share, a site that sells emergency preparedness kits, when you sign up here. Share your name, email, address, and phone number to get the sample. Ohh, phone number? That makes me hesitate. Why would they possibly need my phone number unless they were going...

Summer is just around the corner, and with it will come a strain on our nation's electricity supply. Hopefully, we'll have plenty of juice to keep our air-conditioners running, but it wouldn't hurt to prepare for an outage. Stock up on: Candles and/or batteries. Bottled water, if...