CNN is reporting Hand sanitizer in short supply as flu hits.
However, don’t waste your money on a panic buy situation. Look around your medicine chest, disaster supplies and school supplies before you go shopping – you may already have plenty for your family.
Those bottles do have expiration dates and even a little bottle will go [...]

Fire prevention safety week is in October. Severe weather awareness week in Michigan and Ohio is in late March / early May depending on the state proclamations. Winter weather awareness promotions happen in November.
You could do your annual family disaster plan updates and supply inventory during one of those traditional seasons like I do (tornado [...]

Detective Bryan Gee talks with resident Kelli Cook about the start of the fire that devastated her home at the River Raisin apartment complex in Monroe, Mich., Wednesday. The fire was most likely started by candles burning in the living room. It destroyed many of Ms. Cook’s belongings, but both she and her 2-year-old son [...]

Do you live within 10 miles of DTE Energy’s Fermi 2 Nuclear Power Plant?
I do.
The Monroe Evening News is reporting today that 56,000 households and businesses within 10 miles of the power plant will be given information soon on how to request a supply of potassium iodide pills to be kept in case of an [...]

In recent years, September has been promoted as National Preparedness Month. The goal is encouraging people to be ready and prepared for a disaster situation that might occur in their community.
I do my family’s disaster supply inventory and updates in March or April when tornado season starts in Michigan and Ohio. Tornado warnings are the [...]

Health and safety discussions about the flu are picking up on the Internet, given the pandemic outbreak this year of H1N1 influenza “swine flu,” and the start of the fall flu vaccination season in the U.S.
I’ve posted some links and discussions already on that topic, but I really like an e-mail I got a couple [...]

Given the international and national headlines on swine flu, there has been an awful lot of chit-chat on the Internet about how to prepare for an influenza outbreak to hit your family and community.
I have been at times informed, entertained and even appalled at some of the stuff I’ve read.
One of the most useful things [...]

Hmm. Now our home is included in the neighborhood power outage.
I got a call from my husband who just woke up and realized nothing was working.
I told him I’d be home in about an hour and a half with ice to save what groceries we can (I have an appointment to keep first).
Daughter’s assignment is [...]

Given the fact there are THOUSANDS of people in southeast Michigan without electricity (DTE Energy web update), a lot of you in the area are probably trying to scramble for batteries and candles.
Where can you get that stuff cheap this week in Monroe?
Candles
Go to any of the Christmas clearance aisle at the local stores and [...]

Our cablevision and cell phone service are both off-line today, most likely because of the windstorm that has been screaming for several hours in southeast Michigan.
Frankly, we’re lucky we still have power and Internet. We had brownout conditions early this morning. There are several wires down two blocks away and at least one of the [...]