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September 15, 2006
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Based on his experience with the post-flood planning project he managed for East Grand Forks, MN, Todd Rhoades was invited to make a presentation at a conference on post-disaster recovery planning in Dallas a few weeks ago.
He returned home very prepared: the conference organizers distributed red "emergency backpacks" whose contents are pictured above.
The pack includes the usual items: flashlight and batteries, radio, first-aid supplies, plastic sheeting, and duct tape. But it also has a few that we don't keep on hand at home: sealed drinking water pouches, a "brick" of emergency food rations, a whistle and glow sticks, among other items.
The plastic sheeting and duct tape were to be used together, as the Red Cross put it, to "shelter-in-place."