Be prepared

If you don’t have a plan in case of emergencies, now is the time to do so. Like, right now.

Why wait? Because it can’t happen to you? Because fire will never reach your doorstep? Because no one in your family will ever have a heart attack? Because freak accidents don’t happen to you like power tool batteries blowing up in the back of your car, starting a fire?

Well, those things do happen.

When people think of preparedness kits, they get too focused on the big things—the earthquakes, flood, fires, plague. It’s easy to shrug off those things because, while they do happen, they are rare.

But bei...