Severe weather moved through the area last night. Every family should have a disaster supply kit in their home.
The kit should include supplies for everyone in the household including pets. Ready to eat canned foods, bottled water and a first aid kit. Plus supplies like a battery operated radio and flashlights and even a little spare cash.
Missouri University emergency management specialist Eric Evans says the time to start building your kit is now. Evans says "Today you buy a flashlight, next week you buy a gallon of water. In two weeks you buy a cheap am/fm radio. that's the way you do it. You slowly build it over time. You don't have to go spend hundreds of dollars at one time to get a disaster kit. You can build it over time and thats the cheap way."
For more storm survival information go online to the MU extension website at www.extension.missouri.edu
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