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Hi, this is Monica Packer and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about progress made practical.

If you go into my parents' basement, they have one full room devoted to food storage.

There are literal aisles of boxes holding long-term food, like rice, beans, flour, and so much more.

The kind of food that lasts for 30 years. Those aisles have been there for as long as I can

remember. I used to joke that if there were ever a neighborhood emergency, our family alone could

help feed the whole lot. My parents took emergency preparedness very seriously, and it wasn't

just about the food. Because of that, as an adult, I have long felt

anxious about my perceived lack of preparedness. Sure, we have always had some long-term food storage

and some water and even fire extinguishers. But without tanks' worth of everything, I have long worried that we are so

vastly underprepared that I've done the thing we often do as humans when we're overwhelmed.

Nothing. This is why I finally asked my friend Melanie Papworth to come on the podcast. With the

increase of natural disasters,

I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to finally face their fears and take on emergency

preparedness, but in a way that feels more practical and doable. In our conversation,

you will hear Melanie gave you the basic categories of preparation that

everyone should have on their list, regardless of where you live. In addition to the basic

first step, each area requires for us to feel more ready should that disaster arise.

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