Do you PLAN your preparedness? Do you plan & prioritize what preps you need? What are you planning for? Do you know what threats and hazards you are at risk from? Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) is a process used in emergency management to identify and then develop plans to mitigate, respond…
Author: Nick Meacher
Nick Meacher learned preparedness planning from his extensive career in emergency services and emergency management. With over 25 years as an expert planner developing and teaching emergency response programs, Train-the-Trainer programs, developing a variety of exercises to include Emergency Operations Center and Continuity of Operations. He has worked on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team and in Emergency Operations Centers. He is an instructor for Continuity of Operations, Incident Management, Exercise Design and a number of other related courses.
He is a contributing author to several magazines and teaches preparedness, including developing family emergency plans, communications plans, Amateur Radio and other aspects of being prepared for the natural and man-made disasters that occur every year.
He has been a contributor to several Department of Homeland Security documents on encryption in public safety. He has presented at several state emergency management conferences, the American Association of Airport Executives Emergency Management conferences and Public Safety Communications Summits. He has appeared on a number of podcasts.
He runs a volunteer team that provides free Amateur Radio (HAM) classes and tests and has provided almost 2,000 test sessions in four years with over 1,200 new ham radio operators.
Starting Food Storage – live
Tonight 7pm MDT We will look at different ways to create a food storage program; canned goods, MRE’s, freeze dried, long term. We will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each and look at some of the ways that food comes packaged. Calendar link: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=N2U4NGhqZDRwcDA3dWpvMjBrZmI1OGpuY2cgbmljay5tZWFjaGVyQG0&tmsrc=nick.meacher%40gmail.com Direct link at 7pm MDT meet.google.com/skz-jwom-bpf
Live – What Radio to Buy?
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New lower cost tier
I’ve added a lower cost tier, $9.95/month. I want to make it more affordable so we can help more families become prepared as we are now getting into tornado “season” in many parts of the country and before we know it it will be hurricane “season.” I was going to change the current one and…
LIVE TONIGHT 7pm MDT
OK so had a random thought as I’m about to rush out the door for an appointment – which is going to turn into a live tonight 7pm Couldn’t do last night as I was doing an online training. https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=M2hkdTFvdHFudTlmMTRzYThvMWgyMDRsMWEgbmljay5tZWFjaGVyQG0&tmsrc=nick.meacher%40gmail.com or the direct like at 7pm MDT meet.google.com/ody-zmsb-gxw
LIVE TONIGHT – TUESDAY 6.30pm MST
Mutual Assistance Groups (MAGs) What are they? Why you NEED them Who you need in them How to find them and any other questions you might have Plus a 25% discount code with all proceeds going to help a friend rebuild meet.google.com/drn-cxsd-rxt
Helping a friend
Many of you probably know what happened to Chris, Angery American, last Thursday. For those that don’t there was a fire in Chris’s office/storage area and it destroyed 30 years of work, memorabilia, all his prep’s, all his firearms, hundred’s of thousands of rounds of ammunition, all his knives, rucks, all his books, inventory, patches,…
Big Daddy Unlimited Affiliate
I’m please to announce I now have an affiliate program with BDU. BDU carries thousands of items at prices you can’t find anywhere else. They are also building an ammunition manufacturing plant and as a member you will be able to sign up for a set amount of ammo a month and be guaranteed delivery….
Food – Tue 16th 7pm MST
LIVE TUESDAY 16th 7pm MST We’ll look at freeze dried, MRE’s, canned and canning. We’ll also touch on sources for bulk buying and re-packing yourself for long term storage. We’ll take a look at a couple of the different ’emergency food kits’ that you can but.If we get time we’ll discuss some inventorying methods, both…
Live from 2021-2-3
We talk about a Family Contingency Binder, IFAK and the large medical bag.Still have posters on sale discount FLASHFTTP50 as well as the medical cards and OTP generators.