Bedside Prep - What Should You Have Ready?

Emergency! It’s 3 AM, and you are woken up suddenly by a loud noise. What could it be? Home invader? Wild animal broke through a window? Fire? A big storm breaking windows? An accident survivor struggling to find help? It’s important to have a plan in place for emergencies like this, and everything you need right at hand. Some of it is common sense, but you’d be surprised what people DON’T have prepared.

March 10, 2021

Threat Analysis part 2 - Risks and How To Get Prepared

Next Steps Assuming you’ve read Threat Analysis Part 1, and performed the exercise of creating an ordered list of threats you are concerned about, let’s start making plans. Take your list, and start adding details. What would be the short term impacts of that scenario? What about long term impacts? Are your concerns more specific than what you wrote down at first? Flesh things out, and go into detail with the negative impacts, the actual risks, for each threat scenario.

July 20, 2020

Threat Analysis part 1 - What Should You Prepare For?

Performing a Threat Analysis is the first step in becoming self-reliant. In this exercise, you will identify the threats, events, or scenarios you are concerned about. From there, we can develop action plans and a list of skills and tools necessary to be ready for whatever comes your way. Threats can generally be broken down into two groups: man-made threats and natural threats. These threats can be ranked based on likelihood or potential impact.

July 20, 2020

Introduction - Beat Anxiety and Get Ready for any Emergency!

Are you ready? Are you ready, no matter what happens? More than 80% of Americans don’t feel ready to handle an emergency. The Horizon Experience Project was designed to help make you ready! Our goal is to help people get the knowledge, training, and equipment to feel confident that in an emergency, they can take care of themselves, their families, and their communities. I was lucky when I was growing up.