Although we all have some sense of emergency preparedness, statistics show that fewer than 1 in 2 people actually take the time to put together some sort of a kit.  Sometimes we justify our unpreparedness by thinking that since we live in a fairly stable, highly-developed country, there's no need for all of that.  It's only in places like Haiti (where a devastating earthquake struck in 2010) that those kinds of things are really necessary. Continue reading →