Hi everyone!

Here is a great idea to help you recover after a disaster of any kind!  An app to easily document your home and personal possessions via photos.  Minimize the problems proving your losses to your insurance and disaster recovery agencies.  personal-property-inventory-app info

Here's a community who "gets it"...

Bel Air Operations Manager Rick Cole points out some of the $50,000-worth of supplies the community has gathered to protect its residents in the event of a disaster. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

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Community is ready for the worst...

FREE eBOOK: Middle Ground Prepping – A Sensible Approach

Hayman at A Blog for the Peninsula CERT Community - 1 week ago

Middle Ground Prepping – A Sensible Approach eBook Available September 2nd! Jim Serre is proud to announce the launch of his new eBook. Learn how middle ground prepping can get you prepared without taking over your life. Somewhere in between … Continue reading original post →

  

First impressions:
I have read the introduction and glanced through the remainder with the intention for a more thorough read soon.  This looks like an ideal introduction to disaster preparedness which you could give to anyone who would like to see just what this "prepping stuff" is all about.  It even addresses the over-dramatized TV shows featuring wild, edge-of-reality preppers and shows how those stories were sensationalized.  The remainder of the book seems to cover historical disasters and moves into some basic preparations that are good for anyone to make.  More later...

Where to get this book: 

Search Amazon.com for "Middle Ground Prepping" and you will find that the Kindle version of this book is still free. .  If you would like the paperback version, it is $11.99.