Preparing For Disaster (Without Scaring Your Family): Voices 62 With Red Cross VP Jennifer Pipa
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🗓️ 9 July 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Wildfires, hurricanes, floods and tornadoes; home emergencies, local disasters and national crises. These aren’t things we love to think about, but they do have one thing in common: having a plan and talking about it as a family can bring peace of mind and even save lives. In this month’s Voice interview Sarah chats with Jennifer Pipa, Vice President of Disaster Programs for the Red Cross. With an emphasis on making disaster preparedness practical for busy families, applicable no matter where in the world you live or what risks your natural climate brings, and as un-scary as possible for little kids, Jennifer is full of tips and information to help you up your preparedness this summer. It’s an important conversation, and one we’ve had many requests for over the years; enjoy, friends!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from |
| 0:05.2 | little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages |
| 0:09.0 | of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share |
| 0:12.7 | tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're |
| 0:16.6 | not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to the mom hour. Hey everyone and welcome to the mom hour. I am Sarah |
| 0:26.3 | Powers here today to bring you our monthly voices interview for the month of |
| 0:30.6 | July. So if you're new around here, Megan and I take turns doing these interviews. |
| 0:34.3 | So she's not here with me today, but we will of course be back with you on |
| 0:38.0 | Tuesday as always. And I can't wait to share today's guest with you. So the |
| 0:42.5 | backstory on today's episode is that we have gotten a lot of requests from |
| 0:46.3 | listeners to talk about preparing your home and your family for natural |
| 0:50.0 | disasters, which you know is not the most fun topic, right? Like I am totally |
| 0:54.9 | that type of personality who avoids thinking about things that make me |
| 0:58.1 | nervous or I even do that thing where I think if Brian and I actually sit down |
| 1:02.1 | and go through our earthquake bag, for example, and talk about an evacuation |
| 1:05.3 | plan that I'm somehow gonna tempt fate and then an earthquake will happen. So |
| 1:09.3 | that's a little embarrassing. I hope I am not alone there. But the truth is we |
| 1:12.7 | have listeners from all over the world who are in flood zones. They're in |
| 1:16.3 | wildfire country. They're in tornado and hurricane areas. You name it. You're |
| 1:20.2 | probably in one. And like I said, we've had probably half a dozen requests in the |
| 1:24.5 | past year or so to cover the topic of preparedness on the podcast. And when |
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