Hurricane Preparedness and Document Preservation: Home

A practical, all-encompassing guide to disaster preparedness, from avalanches and blackouts to pandemics and wildfires.

As we have seen with the recent COVID-19 pandemic, disaster preparedness is not a luxury. Learn how to: Perform emergency first aid Create a bunker Keep yourself safe when traveling Keep yourself safe from online hacks and dozens of other invaluable tips to stay safe in any circumstances. From cyber security, active shooter situations, and travel, to natural disasters and emotional resilience, she shares tips that will give even the most anxious person a sense of control over life's unpredictable perils.

One thing we've all learned from the pandemic is that we all need to be preppers now. Gone are the days of living toilet paper roll-to-roll and feeling carefree about our pantry staples. We never want to be caught unaware again, and stocking a prepared home for emergencies is now part of the repertoire of any competent head of household--especially mothers. Books on prepping are typically designed for the hard-core survivalist. The Prepared Home takes a colorful, aesthetically-pleasing approach to prepping information.

This friendly and highly accessible guide introduces the most important, practical steps your whole family can take to ensure survival in short- or long-term emergencies. The critical information is presented in 40 achievable tasks, ranging from simpler ones such as creating a preparedness notebook and repackaging store-bought food for storage to more involved preparations like learning to collect rainwater and building a solar oven.

Full of stories and humor along with facts, tips, and lists, Kathi offers a down-to-earth guide that will show you how to face the unexpected with confidence, relying on God's strength and plan rather than giving in to our fear and anxiety.

The crises of 2020 impacted every single one of us. Were you prepared? Are you prepared for the next crisis?

You'll learn how to:
✓ Identify your crisis risk
✓ Create a customized preparedness plan
✓ Design a basic food-storage system that's ideal for you
✓ Safely store water and fuel
✓ Tackle sanitation issues and communications breakdowns
✓ Protect your home and family

This book also gives you unique benefits you won't see in other preparedness books, such as:
5 Things You Can Do Now—Quick-start ideas in each chapter to get you going
Quick Checks—Checklists that help you evaluate options
Worksheets—Planning tools to optimize your preparedness plan
Resource Section—Reviews of unique products that help you prepare
Personally Speaking—Patricia's tips, insights, and survival life-lessons

One hundred years after the hurricane of 1900 devastated Galveston, Texas, it remains the most deadly natural disaster in United States history. Although many heeded the warnings of local weatherman Dr. Isaac Monroe Cline, numerous others did not.

A hurricane wind lashed over Galveston Island on the night of September 8th, 1900, and over 6000 people did not survive. The letters, memoirs and oral histories collected in this volume allow the survivors to tell, in their own words, what they witnessed and experienced during the disaster.

Here is the true story of the deadliest hurricane in history. September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana--on August 29, 2005--journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm's immediate damage, the city of New Orleans's efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm's lasting effects not just on the city's geography and infrastructure--but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation's great cities.

Hurricane Story is a spellbinding odyssey of exile, birth and return told in forty-six photographs and simple, understated prose. This first-person narrative told through dreamlike images of toys and dolls chronicles one couple's evacuation from New Orleans ahead of the broken levees, the birth of their first child on the day that Katrina made landfall, and their eventual return to the city as a family. Shaw's photographs, at turns humorous and haunting, contrast deftly with the prose.

Imagine standing at the center of a Roman coliseum that is 20 miles across, with walls that soar 10 miles into the sky, towering walls with cascades of ice crystals falling along its brilliantly white surface. That's what it's like to stand in the eye of a hurricane.In Divine Wind, Kerry Emanuel, one of the world's leading authorities on hurricanes, gives us an engaging account of these awe-inspiring meteorological events, revealing how hurricanes and typhoons have literally altered human history, thwarting military incursions and changing the course of explorations.

Hurricanes menace North America from June through November every year, each as powerful as 10,000 nuclear bombs. These megastorms will likely become more intense as the planet continues to warm, yet we too often treat them as local disasters and TV spectacles, unaware of how far-ranging their impact can be.

For the past 30 years, Warren Faidley has forecast, intercepted, and photographed some of the planet's most extreme weather and natural disasters. In this book, you'll discover over 150 photographs that chronicle Faidley's quest to find the perfect image in the midst of total chaos and will read about his adventures in the midst of the roar of an EF5 tornado, grapefruit-size hailstones, severe thunder and lightning storms, forest fires, and more.