If an emergency forced you to evacuate your home, would you be prepared? Matt Stein, author of When Technology Fails, shows what to pack in your 72-hour emergency survival kit — and why. Check out the first aid kits, sleeping bag and space blanket, LED flashlight, hand-crank disaster radio, portable stove and cook set, freeze-dried food, multi-tool, compass, water holder, and essential water treatment items; plus sewing, repair, and health items. The packing list is on his website www.whentechfails.com. Produced August 10, 2008. Episode 122.
Peak Moment 122: An Inside Look at an Emergency Survival Kit
By Janaia Donaldson, originally published by Peak Moment Television
January 29, 2009
Janaia Donaldson
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