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| Hurricane Sandy Redecoration (Photo credit: dakine kane) |
My inbox is full of messages in connection with Hurricane Sandy, including a request for a donation from the ASPCA. As usual, I'm broke, so I can't oblige them right now. I hope you can. They're doing a lot of work that is Sandy-related, and it's all laid out on their blog. It's a real relief to me to read about people doing good things for pets, as opposed to all the animal abuse stories I keep hearing.
The fact that the hurricane hit Manhattan (I've always wondered why this hasn't happened before) brings home a reminder that disasters can happen anywhere, anytime. I lived in central Florida for most of the 1980s, and we were warned every May/June about preparing for hurricane season by all the different media that were available then -- even paper grocery bags had tracking maps and lists of emergency supplies listed on them. I now live in the midwest, and while we don't have hurricanes, we do have floods and tornados, but these don't seem to get the kind of advance attention as hurricanes, probably because they don't have a season per se.
So, my advice for today is to think of what you would need if disaster struck for your family, including your pets, whether you were to stay in your home (with or without electricity) or evacuate. If you have an emergency kit, go over it to see if anything else is needed. If you don't have one, get on the stick! One thing that I bought after Tony was diagnosed with diabetes was a little cooler pack for his insulin, just for such an emergency. I think you can see why you'd need this, so I won't belabor the obvious. These run around $20, and there are different kinds of cooling involved, but I haven't seen any that are good for more than 45 hours (that would be the Frio Cooling Wallet, which gets soaked in water to activate a gel that keeps it cold, so you don't have to keep cold packs in your freezer if you don't want to). Once you've bought one, REMEMBER WHERE YOU PUT IT. In an emergency, there may not be time to do more than put the insulin in the pack.
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