Friday Preparedness Pool Welcome to the Friday Preparedness Pool. Here are our top five favorite preparedness links of the week.   PREPAREDNESS: Nationwide emergency signal test scheduled today This past week, the US had a nation wide emergency test. Although emergency tests have been conducted in the past, this was the first ever nation-wide test. [...]

After a freak snowstorm across the Eastern United States at the weekend which left 11 people killed and caused worse damage than Tropical Storm Irene, millions of homes are still without power this week (Guardian story). Trees have fallen and crushed cars, power line are down, travelling passengers are completely stranded and at least three [...]