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Floods are widely considered the second most common disaster related expense on insured property.  There are several scenarios that can lead to flooding such as severe rain storms, hurricanes, melting snow, and damaged dams or levees.  If you live in a flood zone, there are several things you can do to help prevent damage from…

Updating Your Emergency Preparedness Plan From time to time, people are reminded that their comfortable lifestyles could be torn from them by societal catastrophes or natural disasters. This has led many Americans to create emergency preparedness plans for themselves and their families. They often stash several months’ worth of food, medicine, ammo, and other supplies….

As the news reports an endless array of chaotic events from summers of record-setting wildfires, heat waves and droughts or winter polar vortexes, Hurricane Sandy convinced many that climate change is real and that catastrophic weather events are the new norm. Many people resolved to be better prepared for the next big crisis and to…

So, do you wonder if you will be able to do for yourself after disaster strikes?  Wondering how to aquire the skills you would need to fix a broken window after a storm?  How about patching the roof after a tornado?  Maybe an earthquake broke some plumbing in the basement.  Not very handy?  Need to…

Flooding in the Calgary and other areas has caused the evacuation of between 75,000 and 100,000 residents, depending on the source of the reports.  A state of emergency has been declared.Check out http://emergencyalert.alberta.ca/ for more information. Here is the Twitter Feed for hashtag abflood. Tweets about “#abflood” This is from Calgary City News Blog… A…

The Canadian Preppers Network is excited to announce its new Sponsored Post Program.  The CPN will be accepting posts from various companies that provide the very best in preparedness products and services.  Trusted names in the preparedness and survival industry will be posting articles here on the blog.  With their expertise and experience, I believe…