408: Revisiting Emergency Preparedness

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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2017

⏱️ 94 minutes

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David and Katie revisit the topic of emergency preparedness. This can include everything from natural disasters, personal emergencies, accident or illness, technology failures and even happy emergencies. We share our for getting your tech prepared and how technology can help you weather the storm.

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0:00.0	Mac Power Users, Episode 408, revisiting Emergency Preparedness.
0:05.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Mac Power Users Podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside
0:15.9	with my pal David Sparks. Hello, David. Hello, Katie Floyd. How are you today?
0:19.3	Great. You're ready for an emergency? Are you prepared?
0:22.3	I think I'm prepared, but I hope that there's not one any pending.
0:25.4	We are out of hurricane season now that of course we're recording this
0:29.1	podcast when we're out of hurricane season and you know we don't get many
0:32.4	blizzards in these parts.
0:33.7	Yeah we have a different philosophy about emergencies in Southern California.
0:39.6	We have fires and earthquakes that all happen with almost no warning.
0:44.1	So we just like it to just drop on you and the occasional riot.
0:48.8	That's one of the things that we should talk a little bit about this show is that we did cover emergency preparedness a bit in a show to well we had an entire show devoted to it episode 296. We'll put a link to that in the show notes. But we've had a lot happen since that last show. First we've gotten a lot of great
1:05.8	listener feedback. Apparently it's a topic that a lot of people have dealt with personally
1:10.1	and have a lot of strong opinions on. Since that show, I've been through a pretty major hurricane and I guess I should knock on
1:19.8	wood here have come through it fairly well unscathed. And I know you've been through a couple of your
1:26.0	own emergencies with fires and other things going on as well.
1:30.3	Yeah, the fires were just over the hill a couple months ago. You could see it from our house.
1:35.0	Yeah, it's like, so, uh, so we always worry about stuff like that. And honestly, the technology's changed quite a bit in the last few years so we
1:43.5	decided to go back and and hit this one fresh. Yeah I do want to stress though you know we
1:48.8	called this the initial title for the show was disaster preparedness, but I ultimately went back to emergency preparedness because there are many types of emergencies and some certainly can be natural disasters.
2:05.0	That's one that you and I both have experience with.
2:08.0	But emergencies can also be personal emergencies,
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