381-Simple, Cheap, Practical Tips to Help You Prepare for a Coming Hurricane

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

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🗓️ 4 October 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

As I release today's show, Hurricane Matthew is threatening the east coast of Florida and the Carolinas. (Today's show is not specific to Hurricane Matthew. The content is useful in any natural disaster or hurricane. But I wanted to get this information to you in a timely manner so that those of you in the warning cone have an opportunity to prepare.)

Today's show is very practical. I cover:

The most important need to address in advance of the storm: the ability to keep your phone and communications working without electricity.
How to think about and plan for an evacuation plan.
Simple and cheap ways to handle water and food when you have no power.
How to use your car as a generator.
And more!

Enjoy the show!

Joshua

RESOURCES:

You need to keep your phone functional and charged at all times. The easiest, simplest way to do this is by using an external backup battery. There are varying sizes available:
- I own the Kmashi 15000mAH External Battery Power Bank. It's the cheapest I've found ($14 on Amazon for the black version) and should give you 5+ charges for your phone. It has a 4-star rating on Amazon with about 7,700 reviews. I've had no problem with it. http://rpf.link/2dO4v0Y
- I also own the RAVPower 13000 mAH External Battery Power Pack. It works perfectly fine and is smaller and lighter than the Kmashi above. (This is the one that I prefer to carry in my pocket while traveling. The Kmashi above is too big to be comfortable in my pocket.) It should get you about 4 charges. But, at $27 on Amazon, it doesn't give you as much bang for the buck. http://rpf.link/2dP9SJF
Steven Harris has more information on keeping your cell phone charged at his excellent site: www.cellphone1234.com I chose to buy different batteries than he recommended because they were cheaper (but still highly rated) when I was shopping.
The Berkey water filter system that we own and use is this one: http://www.directive21.com/products/royal-berkey-system/ (This is where we bought it from--Directive 21 did a fine job with service.) There are other sizes available.
For information on how to power your house from your car, listen to Steven Harris's free class here at http://www.solar1234.com/
The Eneloop rechargeable batteries that I use in all of my flashlights, kids toys, etc. are these on Amazon: http://rpf.link/2dbuiLA I use this 8-cell Powerex charger to keep them all topped up. http://rpf.link/2dXXdHc
The car battery charger that I recommended is from CTEK. http://www.ctek.com/
For more great, simple, practical emergency preparedness tips, check out all of Steven Harris's websites here: http://www.steven1234.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Radical Personal Finance to
0:03.0	show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and
0:07.3	encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building a plan
0:11.2	for financial freedom in 10 years or less.
0:13.6	My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host.
0:15.6	Today is Tuesday, October 4, 2016, early in the morning on Tuesday, and as things stand presently there is another hurricane
0:26.2	a relatively large one category four headed in the direction of the United
0:30.8	States presently this hurricane Hurricane Matthew is inundating Haiti and Cuba with rain and certainly very high winds.
0:40.0	Ben and women down there are facing a very difficult circumstance.
0:44.0	But the cone of uncertainty certainly has much of the eastern seaboard of the United States in its sights,
0:51.0	including where I live here in West Palm Beach, Florida.
0:54.0	We'll see, time will tell whether it moves towards us or not, but at this point it's certainly
0:59.2	important to go ahead and take some preparations.
1:02.8	Today I have plans to share with you some simple, cheap,
1:06.1	and very practical steps that you can take
1:09.1	for hurricane preparations.
1:11.4	I was born and raised in Florida so hurricanes are nothing new. My parents
1:15.8	spent a number of years of their life in the Philippines long before I was born
1:21.2	back in the 70s and so they went through various typhoons there so I've grown up in a family that's relatively comfortable with dealing with tropical storms
1:30.0	for those of you who are not in hurricane country, I know hurricanes can often seem a little bit
1:36.8	overwhelming and seem like how could you handle them.
1:39.8	In my opinion, they're one of the best types of natural risks to face just because of the
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