One of the things that we love to talk about that's just one small step short of a chainsaw are pruning saws.

So the one we have recommended forever is called the pocket boy.

Ooh.

Silky pocket boy.

The silky pocket boy.

That does not sound like a hand saw.

Not at all.

Let me just tell you.

I'm Christine Zier-Cleset. I'm Kyra Blackwell.

I'm Rosie Garan. And you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

So, fam, we're trying something new today.

We are re-airing an episode that we originally released last fall about emergency preparedness.

It's sadly something that we should all be more and are more aware of, I think, with climate change increasing the intensity of

certain types of disasters like wildfires and especially precipitation, extreme flooding,

extreme snowstorms. Yeah, since we first aired this episode, there have been a number of

severe natural disasters across the country, just to name two the LA wildfires and the Texas Hill Country floods, it's scary. But getting prepared before something happens is the absolute best way to be ready if something does actually happen. And you don't have to panic by anything. That's right. Wirecutter has a ton of great coverage around emergency preparation.

We've been covering this for years. We have really great specific recommendations. And we just

published a whole suite of new coverage around this topic. One thing I'm really excited about

is a new tool we published, which is an emergency toolkit builder, it will build you a customized list of emergency

supplies that you should have based on your family dynamic, the kinds of disasters you might

face, whether you want to stay at home, shelter in place, or whether you want to evacuate,

it gives very specific kinds of things that you should have on hand. We also have some other coverage on, you know, building out an emergency pantry, how to pick out a generator. We even have this very interesting piece from two of our wirecutter writers who survived the LA fires on the things that they learned that they would want anyone to do in advance of any kind of disaster that they're

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