{"id":60816,"date":"2025-09-15T23:21:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=60816"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T21:08:29","slug":"a-practical-guide-to-what-you-need-in-your-home-to-deal-with-disasters-and-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/09\/15\/a-practical-guide-to-what-you-need-in-your-home-to-deal-with-disasters-and-emergencies\/","title":{"rendered":"A practical guide to what you need in your home to deal with disasters and emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are people who trivialize the need to be prepared for situations in which our way of life may be threatened.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/07\/13\/a-guide-to-setting-up-a-low-cost-personal-survival-kit\/\">A guide to setting up a low-cost personal survival kit<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/05\/24\/a-review-of-different-methods-for-making-fire-in-a-survival-situation\/\">A review of different methods for making fire in a survival situation<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>However, these risks exist, as we saw a few years ago during the 2020 pandemic and as we have also seen in Spain during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/04\/29\/blackout-spain-follows-in-the-footsteps-of-cuba-and-venezuela-on-its-journey-to-the-third-world\/\">the national blackout of April 28<\/a>, in which the country was left without electricity and in some cases even without running water, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/29\/the-terrible-images-of-the-floods-recorded-in-several-regions-of-spain\/\">last year's floods in southeastern Spain<\/a>, in which entire neighborhoods were left for days without electricity or water, suffering the actions of looters and without any kind of help. <strong>In a civilized country these situations are exceptional, but in certain cases they may cease to be so<\/strong>, especially when we have people in charge who seem to care very little about the common good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are certain precautions we can take to deal with disasters and emergencies in our homes.<\/strong> It's about equipping ourselves with the necessary items for our survival without waiting for that situation to arrive. This Monday, the channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AventurasEntresierras\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aventuras Entresierras<\/a> (to which I recommend you subscribe) <strong>published an interesting video addressing this issue and offering a guide of everything you need<\/strong> (the video is in Spanish, you can activate automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tu hogar listo para TODO: Gui\u0301a pra\u0301ctica ante DESASTRES Y EMERGENCIAS\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yjEA2zLNEcw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/03\/una-pequena-historia-que-empezo-hace-20-anos\/\">My personal advisor on preparedness<\/a> has told me that Aventuras Entresierras has forgotten the cookies... Without belittling such a delicious delicacy, <strong>I think it would be good to add candles and matches<\/strong>, which turned out to be very useful during the Spanish blackout.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:El_centro_urbano_de_Vigo_a_oscuras-_Rosal%c3%ada_de_Castro_sin_alumbrado_p%c3%bablico.jpg\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\">Seoane Prado \/ Wikimedia<\/a>. Rosal\u00eda de Castro Street in Vigo, photographed on the night of the national blackout on April 28, 2025.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are people who trivialize the need to be prepared for situations in which our way of life may be threatened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,25242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-survival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}