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As our image above indicates, there are a lot of disasters that can interrupt your life besides earthquakes. Storms, power outages, mudslides, electrical grid fault, accidental power lines, gas explosions, are all part of the risks of modern day living that can interrupt the normal infrastructure we depend upon throughout the day. The good news … more »

The Great California Shake Out is October 18th, just three days from now. Kids in schools from around the state will be practicing their earthquake safety skills, as will be office workers, government employees, as well fire and life safety personnel. While this long list of do-gooders and goody-two-shoes are dropping, covering and holding on, … more »

Each week during National Preparedness Month, we’ve been creating celebrity mystery grab-and-go bags and asking you to try your hand at guessing the owner. There has been an animated debate this week about which family guy is the one who would put doughnuts in his emergency grab-and-go bag. It is the final week of National Preparedness Month, so we hope we are inspiring you to get prepared! more »

I am really the last guy you would expect to put together an emergency grab-and-go bag, but my daughter says that we all need them in our family, and she is a really smart kid. I think my wife is sure to pack anything I might have forgotten, because she is organized and really good at taking care of me. As long as I have doughnuts in my emergency grab-and-go bag, I will be fine. Mmmm, doughnuts… more »

As a way to have some fun during National Preparedness Month, we’ve been creating celebrity mystery grab-and-go bags and asking you to try your hand at guessing the owner.

Our mystery packer’s favorite color is pink, and tennis plays a huge part in her life. Any ideas?
Do you think you guessed correctly this week? Click through to find out! more »

We are three weeks into National Preparedness Month, and this week our mystery grab-and-go bag is rather topical. Any idea who it might belong to? Take a close study of the picture of this week’s grab-and-go bag. Any inspiration as to who might want pink glitter clothing, pink work gloves, a set of new tennis balls and a dog carrier in their emergency kit? We can tell you it is someone who has been in the news a lot lately, Pink might be the favorite color of whoever this grab-and-go bag belongs to, but you could just as easily substitute gold. more »

It is week two of National Preparedness Month, and a bunch of you have guessed who this new mystery grab-and-go bag belongs to. We think that the personal items in this week’s mystery grab-and-go bag made for an easy guess, judging by all the correct answers we received. Do you want to know who is was? more »

It is week two of National Preparedness Month, so here is a new mystery grab-and-go bag. Can you guess who it belongs to? We have created a custom grab-and-go bag for our latest mystery person. Take a close look at the personal items in the photo of their grab-and-go bag and see if you can figure out who would make and emergency kit like this one. Think you can guess who it belongs to? more »

Several of you guessed correctly, and others were close.

Marcela and Michelle, you guessed correctly!
Devon, you were very, close.
Everyone else, we thank you for trying. We’ll be doing this all month so come on back.
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In celebration of National Preparedness Month, we at Totally Unprepared thought we would invite you to play a little game.
Each week, we’ll show you an earthquake preparedness kit for a famous person or character, filled with items they would include if they were going to put together an earthquake preparedness kit today. You try to guess who the kit belongs to once you see the personal items included. If this person was alive today, this is what he’d say about his go-bag’s specific items:
*Golf Clubs
*Note “eat all ice cream in the fridge”
*Chesterfield Cigarettes
*Don Black baseball card
*Handkerchief
Each day we will post another picture as a clue to help you guess. Every Friday we’ll reveal the identity of our mystery go-bag packer. Sound like fun? Okay, take a guess! more »