Building Your Kit On A Budget Have A Kit. Make A Plan. Be Prepared. Get Involved. These are all important steps on the journey to preparedness. But I know that is much easier said than done. Let’s start with the “Have A Kit” part. What’s really stopping you from putting together a comprehensive emergency kit for your house, your car, and school or work? The biggest two factors I hear about are time and money. You have no time? Do you go to the grocery store? To Target, WalMart or Costco? Then you have TIME to pick up a few extra items each time you’re out shopping. Additionally, Amazon has a great selection of reasonably priced flashlights, hand crank weather radios, solar phone chargers, first aid kits, and other necessities for your kit. You have a limited budget? I bet you have an old backpack or duffle bag lying around that you can repurpose for your kit. Throw other items you already have around the house in their too. Old sneakers, extra jacket, blankets, flashlight, etc. Also, the majority of the items for your kit can be purchased at the 99 Cents Only Store! The above pictures are from my trip last week to the 99 Cents Only Store. They have a ton of canned food (organic too!), snacks, water, band aids, mini first aid kits, batteries, trash bags, games, and other items you need in your kit. To make it even easier the 99 Cents Only Store and American Red Cross partnered to put together a simple checklist for building your kit at their store. And finally, the UC system has an agreement with Nexis Preparedness Systems to provide students, staff, and faculty with a 20% discount on all of premade disaster kits. That helps solve both problems – time and money!! We encourage the community to partner with the UC Irvine Police Department to prevent or report crime by calling (949) 824-5223. If you wish to remain Anonymous, call “OC Crime Stoppers” by dialing 855-TIP-OCCS (855-847-6227), text OCCS plus your tip to CRIMES (274637), or use the website occrimestoppers.org Receive updates directly via email by registering at Nixle and search for UC Irvine Police or text UCIrvinePD to 888777 to receive text message alerts only. Standard text messaging rates may apply depending on your calling plan. UC Irvine Police Department (949) 824-5223 police.uci.edu facebook/UCIrvinePD twitter/UCIrvinePD youtube/UCIrvinePD nixle/University-of-California-Irvine-Police-Department
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 21:38:00 +0000
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