Tonight, for Family Home Evening we had a test run to see if we are prepared. It all started at dinner. I didn't cook anything and when I called everyone to the table to eat, John turned the power out in the kitchen and the weather turned out nicely. The wind was blowing and the dark black rain clouds were blowing in and then the power went out. The kids are scared and then John comes in and says"I think we're having a earthquake, quick get under the table." So we all gather under the table, (Abigail is now crying hysterically) and we talk about what to do in an earthquake. Then we had everyone go to their rooms to pretend to sleep and then John pushes the fire alarm. We all exit the house and go to our family meeting point. Now everyone is having fun. Then John shows us how to shut off the gas and water.
Now comes the fun part. Because we have had an emergency we need to pull out our 72 hour kits and eat dinner from this. Well, I filled our 72 hour kits 4 year ago and after we got all the food out, everything was expired! (ha, ha,) Good thing we did this now and not when there was a real emergency. So we ended up throwing almost everything away and had french toast for dinner.
But we learned a few things:
1. Don't store things that expire in the same year you buy them.
2. Store things that you really will eat (we had things that were on the list that nobody like)
3. Rotate the food yearly so when a disaster strikes you have fresh food.
4. Put your food in a ziploc bag for easier rotation. (I had sealed our kits in mylar bags, but you can't rotate food in and out of them. If they were in a ziploc bag I could rotate things easier.)
So now I will go buy new food for our 72 hour kits and hopefully remember to rotate it more often.
It was a pretty good FHE and all the kids learned a few things.
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