Let's Learn English! Topic: Emergency Preparedness 🕯️🔦📻 (Lesson Only)

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Well, hello and welcome to this
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English lesson about emergency preparedness.
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Now that is a hard thing to say, but that is the
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term we use to talk about being ready for an emergency.
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It's very important in life to be
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prepared in case something goes wrong.
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And if you're wondering how did I come up
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with this topic, it's because around this time of
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year, I put my hat and gloves.
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I have a special pair of gloves and
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a hat that I keep in my vehicle.
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Because winter is coming here, it's important to
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be prepared for something to go wrong in
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the winter if you drive a vehicle.
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So as I was putting my gloves and hat in my
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van, I thought I should do a bigger lesson on this.
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There are a lot of things you can do to
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prepare yourself in case something goes wrong in life.
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Maybe you go in the ditch, maybe the power goes out.
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There's a variety of things that
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you should just be prepared for.
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So once again, welcome to this
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English lesson on emergency preparedness.
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I think you will enjoy it.
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A first aid kit.
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So a first aid kit is a box.
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You can buy a first aid kit that has everything that you
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need in it, or you can make your own first aid kit.
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Most people buy a first aid kit.
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We have a first aid kit in our house.
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And mostly it's not just because it's
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good to have one as a family.
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It's also because we live on a farm.
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Now you might be wondering what is in a first aid kit.
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Mostly there are bandages.
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There are things you can use to wrap
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someone's ankle or elbow if they injure themselves.
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By the way, bandages, if you cut yourself,
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you can put a bandage on the cut.
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But usually it's the things you can use to
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take care of someone if they hurt themselves.
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At school, if we coach a team, when the team goes
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to play another team, we take a first aid kit with
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just in case one of the athletes hurt themselves.
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So this is something that everyone should have
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a small first aid kit somewhere in their
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house, just in case someone hurts themselves.
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You can then help them.
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And if it's something more serious, you can at
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least do what you can as you help them
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get to a doctor or a hospital.
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But first aid kit, probably the number one thing
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you should have in case of emergency, a flashlight.
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So one of the emergencies that is the
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most common here, and we just had one
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last week, Wednesday would be a power outage.
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So when the power goes out in
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the summer, it's not a big deal.
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But here in Canada, when the power goes out in
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the winter, it is a big deal for two reasons.
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One, it's cold in the winter and
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you need electricity to heat your house.
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And two, the days are very, very short right now.
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It gets dark at around 05:00
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in the afternoon right now.
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So a flashlight is a very important thing to have.
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It allows you to see in the dark so
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that you don't have to stumble around your house.
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So the second kind of emergency you
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might have is a power outage.
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And it's always good to have a flashlight.
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Or if you're like me, you have a generator.
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We have a generator in case the power goes out.
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It's very important because if the power goes out in
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the summer, we have flowers in our floral coolers in
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the barn, and those flowers need to stay cold.
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So if the power goes out, we pull out
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the generator, we start the generator and we connect
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the air conditioners or the cooling units to the
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generator so the flowers stay cold.
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And it's also nice because then we can run
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a long extension cord to our house, and then
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we have a little bit of power in the
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house to run our fridge and freezer as well.
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So when the power goes out, it
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is nice to have a generator.
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And yes, if you are learning British English, this is
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called a torch, I think, over there across the pond.
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That's how we sometimes refer to the UK.
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Across the pond.
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We call it a flashlight.
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It might also be called a torch battery backup.
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I have one of these on my computer over there.
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When the power goes out, you don't
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want your computer to turn off suddenly.
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Maybe you're in the middle of typing something, maybe
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you're in the middle of sending an email.
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And if the computer shuts off
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suddenly, you might lose that.
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So when you have a computer and you do important work
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on that computer, it's nice to have a battery backup.
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This will allow your computer to run for maybe
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ten minutes, maybe 15 minutes, and then you can
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finish what you're doing and turn it off properly.
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So, yes, power outages, they are not super common in
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Canada, but they are something that I would say three
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or four times a year we have a power outage,
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so you can take that how you want.
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I guess maybe that is common.
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They usually last for ten minutes, maybe an hour.
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The last power outage lasted for
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almost two and a half hours.
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That was a little bit.
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We were about to pull the generator out, but
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then the power came back on road flare.
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So I don't use these.
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But I have noticed that when truck drivers have
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a breakdown, when the truck stops working properly, or
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when a truck driver is in an accident, they
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will often put flares out on the road to
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let people know, especially if it's on a highway.
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If there is an accident on the highway, the police
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sometimes come and they will put out road flares to
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kind of warn people to move over and to not
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get involved in an accident that has already happened.
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So a normal driver like me or you, we
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probably wouldn't have road flares in our vehicle.
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But certainly truck drivers in Canada and police officers would
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have road flares so that they can light them.
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By the way, a road flare is like you
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light a road flare and it's on fire.
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I don't know exactly how to describe
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it, but it is a bright flame.
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It's similar to.
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What would it be similar to, like a firework that burns for
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a very long time with a bright light at the end.
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It doesn't explode, obviously, but a road flare
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would be used in some sort of car
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accident or emergency or breakdown on the road.
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And then I do not know anything about these.
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These are things you probably would use on a boat.
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So let's say you are on a boat out on a
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big lake or out on the ocean, and you run out
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of gas and it's getting dark and you need someone to
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rescue you, and maybe your phone is dead and maybe you
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have a little marine radio and it doesn't work eIther.
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You might use a flare gun to signal people.
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So similar to a road flare, this makes
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a very bright light as it burns.
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But a flare gun is something you use
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to shoot a flare up in the air.
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And usually it's red or a different color.
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I'm going to guess that the
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different colors mean different things.
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I don't actually know.
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But if I was out on a boat by myself with no
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phone, and I needed to be rescued for some reason, maybe if
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I saw a boat in the distance, I would shoot the flare
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gun into the air and hopefully they would see me and come
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and give me a tow or come and rescue me.
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Another standard piece of equipment, I would say first
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aid kit and fire extinguisher are two things that
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everyone should have somewhere on the farm.
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We have a number of fire extinguishers.
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We have one by our stove in the kitchen.
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We have one in the back room of our house.
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We have one in the work area in our barn,
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and we have another one in the shed where we
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keep all of our tractors and other equipment.
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Fire extinguishers are your number one defense.
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If there is a fire so if you are
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in a situation where there is a fire, you
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should know where your fire extinguisher is.
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And I know this is just an English lesson, but if
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you don't own a fire extinguisher, you should get one.
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Just get a little fire extinguisher to keep
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somewhere in your house, just in case.
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It would be so nice if there was suddenly
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a little fire and you had a fire extinguisher
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and you could quickly put it out.
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A very important thing to have, just in case.
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And speaking of fires, at the school, I mean,
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there's other things you do in case of emergency.
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There's things you do for emergency preparedness.
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At school, we do what's called a fire drill.
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Every year we do a practice fire drill.
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I guess its very nature is that it is practice.
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But let me explain a little bit.
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The fire department requires that we do a
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fire drill and they observe us and they
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tell us whether we passed or not.
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So in order to pass our fire drill, we
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practice a week before without the fire department there.
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And then the next week we will do
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a fire drill with the fire department there.
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So every year in the fall, the fire alarm goes off
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at the school and we exit in an orderly fashion.
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And then the principal makes
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sure everyone did it right.
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A week later, the fire department will come down, the
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fire chief and some other firefighters, and we will have
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another fire drill and demonstrate that we know how to
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exit the building properly if there is a fire.
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So just a good thing to practice at
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a school or other large building even.
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I think if you work in an office building, you
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might not have a fire drill, but you will definitely
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have a plan to exit the building if there is
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a fire, if there was a big storm coming.
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So for us in Canada mostly, that would be in
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the winter if there was a big storm coming.
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And they know roads are going to be impassable.
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So last winter we had a storm like this.
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We were home for three days
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and we couldn't go anywhere.
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Usually they do warn us that
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a storm like that is coming.
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If you live in a country that has
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hurricanes or typhoons or big winter storms, usually
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they'll say it could be bad.
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In that situation.
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Jen and I usually make sure we have enough
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water for three or four days or more.
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We make sure we have some water in the house and we
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make sure that we just have a lot of non perishable food.
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So we don't usually buy bottled water, but
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in our cupboard we actually have water and
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we call it the emergency water.
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The emergency water supply.
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And then every few months we do drink it
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all and then we buy another case of water.
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But especially in the winter, it's important that we
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make sure we have some water, because even if
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you live in the city, there might be a
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situation where we don't drink our tap water.
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So this is a little more normal for us.
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But in the city, you might want to have
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some extra water around every once in a while.
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And non perishable food is food that
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doesn't need to be in the refrigerator.
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And it's food that can stay on
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the shelf for a very long time.
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In fact, in English, we also say that
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this Food has a long shelf life.
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If you have some soup and tomato sauce and some
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canned beans and looks like canned corn over there, this
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non perishable food has a very long shelf life.
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So it's important.
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We almost always have some food like this in our house.
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But if we know it's going to be a period of
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time where there might be a power outage or we can't
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leave, we'll make sure that we have some food like this,
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and we'll also have just crackers and other food that you
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don't have to heat up to eat.
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And then it's good to have a plan.
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We have a plan if our fire alarms, if our
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smoke detectors go off in our house, we have a
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plan for how to get out of the house.
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And we have a plan where to meet.
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Usually one of our vehicles is parked by the barn.
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So if we ever woke up and our house had smoke in it,
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Jen and I and the kids know that we need to exit.
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And we know that there are two different ways
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to exit from our house and that we will
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meet by that vehicle parked by the barn.
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So it's good to have a plan at work.
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You probably have a plan.
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If you are at a school, you
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probably have a plan for sure.
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I see in the chat someone saying toilet paper.
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I do not have toilet paper on the list.
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You should definitely have enough toilet paper if
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there is a bad storm coming as well.
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Good point, Vitor.
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So this is something that I don't normally have with
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me, but I think probably the best scenario I can
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think is if you walk in the dark regularly.
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So another kind of emergency situation might be
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someone tries to mug you or attack you.
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I'm not familiar with this because I live way out in
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the country, but if I lived in the city and I
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knew I was going to be walking at night in an
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area where it might be a little bit dangerous.
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I think I would have a whistle with me so that
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if someone tried to steal my wallet or someone tried to
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attack me, I maybe could use the whistle to signal someone.
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I'm not an expert on self defense or
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preventing someone from attacking you, so don't take
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my advice and buy a whistle.
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But certainly I do know people who live in areas
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where they carry pepper spray, which I think is illegal
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in some areas, or also called mace, or they might
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have a whistle on them to keep themselves safe.
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Now, we don't listen to the radio very often.
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We used to a long time ago listen
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to the radio, but we don't really anymore.
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But we do have one little radio and it takes a battery.
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It doesn't have a crank on it like this one.
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And we keep that radio because if, let's say, the
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power went out for three days and we didn't have
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Internet, we wouldn't have any way of knowing what's happening.
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So often in the winter, we'll make sure
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that our radio has a new battery in
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it, especially if a bad storm is coming.
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So that if the power went out, we could
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at least listen to the news or listen to
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the radio to see if there are any announcements.
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So always a good idea to have
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a radio in case of emergency.
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And then of course you should have some batteries.
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Thankfully now a lot of things are rechargeable, but it's
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always a good idea to have some batteries on hand
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for your radio, for your flashlight, and anything else that
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you might use if it is an emergency.
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It's just handy to be able to replace the
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batteries if the batteries go dead in something.
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So batteries.
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And notice all the words I use there.
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Batteries go dead.
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You replace the batteries if they go dead.
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That's how we talk about batteries in English.
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And these are not rechargeable, but you can also
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buy rechargeable batteries, which are handy as well.
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Charger.
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So you want to be able to charge your phone.
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So my phone goes about two
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days before my phone is dead.
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So it's a good idea to be able to charge your phone.
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Just checking.
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I got an email here. Oh, very cool.
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I'm waiting to hear from someone. Nice.
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So it's good to have a charger.
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You might not have power, but you
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might have power in an emergency.
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So it would be nice to be able
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to charge your devices if they go dead.
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And then this one doesn't have a solar panel on it.
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You can see this one has a solar panel
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on it, but we would call this a battery.
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Pack or a phone charger.
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I usually just call it a power pack.
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Sometimes this is something that you can charge.
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And then this one's kind of
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nice because it has wireless charging.
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So if I put my phone on this, when it's
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on, it will charge, but it also has all of
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the necessary, let's see here if it will focus.
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Probably not.
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It also has all of the necessary
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ports for charging phones and other devices.
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So it's nice to have a battery pack.
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I might get one like this someday, but
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they're a little bit pricey, so we'll see.
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And you might want candles.
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Now, the fire department doesn't like it if you use
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candles during a power outage, but candles are certainly a
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way to have light whenever there's a power outage.
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Here in Ontario, every once in a while there's
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also a house fire because people use candles and
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they accidentally set their house on fire.
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So we do use candles as a last resort.
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That means that we usually use our rechargeable
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flashlights and lamps, but we do keep candles
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in the house just in case.
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Because if the power was out for three days, and
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that has happened before, twice in my time living here,
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the power has been out for three or four days.
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Usually that happens when we have an ice storm.
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So eventually, if everything you own is dead, it's nice
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to at least have some candles to safely light.
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Use them safely to light your house.
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And then of course you should
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have a lighter or matches.
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A lighter, of course, is something that you flick
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and you use it to light your candles. Matches.
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You strike a match and then you use
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that to light your candles or other things.
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But definitely if you have candles, you're going to
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want to have a lighter or you're going to
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want to have matches, a pack of matches.
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And keep these out of reach of children.
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So in English we have a phrase, packages
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will say, keep out of reach of children.
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If you have medicine or painkillers like Advil
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or Tylenol or matches, usually there's a warning
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that says, keep out of reach of children.
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Certainly if you have matches, keep
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them out of reach of children.
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Kids, if they find matches,
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will probably play with them.
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If it's a serious emergency, you might want
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to take some of your important documents.
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If you have to leave, let's say you live in
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an area where they say there's going to be flooding.
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Maybe there's going to be a tsunami.
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If you are quickly leaving, you'll want
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to take your important documents with you.
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You'll want to make sure that you have things
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like your passport, maybe you have a piece of
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paper that says you own your house.
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But if you have important documents in your house and you
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20:18
need to evacuate when you are evacuated, it means you need
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to leave an area because of a coming emergency.
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That rarely happens here, but I know it does happen in
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areas closer to the ocean where there might be some kind
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of flooding and you might need to evacuate pet food.
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So this is kind of an interesting one.
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If there's an emergency, your pet needs to eat.
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You don't just need food for yourself,
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you might need food for your pet.
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So I remember my uncle and aunt were camping once, and
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they had their dog with them, and there was a tornado.
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So a tornado is like a cyclone.
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A tornado came through the campground
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and they needed to be evacuated.
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And then they were happy because someone
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brought them some dog food they didn't
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remember to take their dog food with.
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So even pets during an emergency,
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of course, will need food.
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So make sure that if there's a big storm
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coming, if we know there's a big storm coming,
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we make sure we have enough dog food for
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Oscar and Walter and then extra clothing.
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So this has a number of uses, I guess I would say.
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When Jen and I go on a long trip in
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the winter, we always bring extra clothing because if the
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car or van was to break down or if we
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got in an accident, we no longer have heat.
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So I mentioned that I keep a
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tuke and gloves in the van.
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If I'm just driving to school and back.
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And if I was to have car problems or
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get in a small accident, I probably will find,
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like, I know people who live along that road.
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I know that I wouldn't be stuck out
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in the cold for hours on end.
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I could call Jen and she could come and get me.
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22:15
But when we go to visit Jen's parents, who live a
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few hours from here, we make sure we take some winter
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clothing, a big winter coat, some extra socks and shoes or
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22:24
socks and sweaters and winter hats, just in case.
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If we were to go in the ditch, slide
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into the ditch, or if the car broke down,
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then we would have those things ready to go.
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Medication.
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If you are someone who is on medication, especially
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if it is something you must take every day
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for your health, you would want to make sure
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that if you need to go somewhere in an
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22:54
emergency, that you take your medication with you.
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So this is a good example from the evacuation example.
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If you needed to evacuate an area, you would want
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to make sure that you took your medication with you.
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It wouldn't be good to be in a shelter or to
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have to leave an area and then not have your medication.
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You would want to make sure you take it
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with you and you want to take toiletries.
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So I'm not sure if you're
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familiar with this term in English.
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Toiletries refer to all of the things
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you use to care for yourself.
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So things like a comb, toothpaste, toothbrush,
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shampoo, soap, dental floss, deodorant, mouthwash.
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There's a few of these things in this picture.
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We call these toiletries.
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I'm not sure if this is just a Canadian term, but
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for me, I know that if I pack to go somewhere,
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and I'm serious, I'm really hoping to go see Brent in
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Maine at the end of June or beginning of July.
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And if I pack to go see him, I will
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pack clothes, but I will also pack by toiletries.
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So toothbrush, toothpaste.
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I think Brett would appreciate that if I actually, when I
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got there, was able to not smell or have bad breath.
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Anyways, toiletries are all of those things
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that basically you use in the bathroom.
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Shaving cream, little shaver or razor.
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Those are all toiletries.
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Always good to have those in case of emergency, because
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sometimes you might have to go for days without showering,
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but you can at least brush your teeth and put
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on deodorant and smell nice for the people around you.
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Gas.
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So you might need gas for a generator, you might need
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gas just so that you can keep driving your car.
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24:50
We usually keep two cans of gas almost all the time.
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In the summer, we always have gas because
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we have lawnmowers and those kinds of things.
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But in the winter, we try to make sure we have two
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25:02
cans of gas so that if the power did go out, we
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could at least run the generator for a small period of time.
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25:09
And you might need gas for your vehicle
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25:11
or another reason if it is an emergency.
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So there's something called a pocket knife.
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We also call this a jackknife.
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In an emergency, you never know what you
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might need to cut or scrape or slice.
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25:29
You could use this to cut
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25:31
up carrots to feed your family.
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You could use this to make a point on a
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stick so that you can roast something over a fire.
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25:40
So a pocket knife is a handy thing to have.
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I do not have a pocket knife.
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What I have is a Swiss army knife.
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25:50
These things are very, very cool.
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25:52
So if you have one of these,
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you know what I'm talking about.
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25:56
This is almost exactly the Swiss
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army knife that I have.
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26:01
And that's what we call it in Canada.
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I think that's probably what
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most English speakers call it.
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It has a knife, it has a screwdriver, it has
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26:09
a can opener, it has a scissor, it has scissors.
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I think you can sew with it.
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It has a little saw, and
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it has, of course, a corkscrew.
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26:21
If you happen to need to open a bottle of wine.
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26:23
I've never used the corkscrew. Very cool.
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26:27
I really, really like that tool.
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26:29
There's another type of tool called a multi
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tool, which is similar but has pliers.
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But if you don't have a Swiss army knife,
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26:38
if you're looking for gift ideas for Christmas, if
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you celebrate Christmas, buy someone a Swiss army knife.
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I'm sure they'll love it.
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Very handy thing to have.
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26:52
It's good to have a can opener.
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If you have a whole bunch of non perishable food
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26:56
in cans and the power is out and you are
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27:01
somewhere and you don't have a can opener, you can't
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27:04
eat the food, it's stuck in the cans.
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27:06
So having a can opener is
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27:08
certainly a handy thing to have.
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27:11
You can open the canned food and you can eat it.
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27:14
So definitely good idea to have
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27:16
a can opener and then entertainment.
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27:20
One of the things we notice, because the most
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common emergency here would be a power outage, one
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27:25
of the things we notice is that you can't
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27:28
do the things you normally do.
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You can't work on your computer, I can't make videos.
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27:34
Jen, she can work outside still if it's summer, but
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27:38
when work is done, you need some form of entertainment.
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27:43
So it's good to have a book, a
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27:45
deck of cards, maybe some different board games.
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27:48
It's good to have things for entertainment because you might
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27:52
have to go a long period of time where you
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27:54
can't watch TV or you can't use the Internet.
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27:57
So definitely a good idea to have
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some form of entertainment ready to go.
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28:04
And then you might want to have some cash.
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28:07
One of the things we noticed during the last
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power outage was that the one restaurant had power,
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28:15
but they weren't able to do electronic transactions.
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28:19
So you couldn't pay with your phone or bank card or Visa
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28:22
card, but they took cash, so we were able to go get
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28:26
pizza even though there was a power outage at our house.
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28:29
So it's always a good idea to
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have a little bit of cash.
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28:34
I don't think I have any cash in my wallet right now.
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Do I have any cash in my wallet?
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28:38
Oh, yes.
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$5.
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So this is not a lot of money, but
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at least I have some money in my wallet,
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28:46
but generally 1020, maybe $30 cash or more.
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28:51
It's a good idea to always have a little bit
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of cash somewhere, just in case you need it.
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I don't think you need this, but when I was done
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making my slides, when I make the lessons, when I'm done
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coming up with all my own ideas, then I use the
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Internet to see if there's anything I missed.
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And they said, you should have a compass.
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I don't have a compass.
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I think GPS on phones has kind of replaced that. Right?
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But maybe if you live somewhere, like in the northern part
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of Finland or something, maybe it would be a good idea
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to have a compass just in case, but I don't.
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By the way, a compass
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will point towards magnetic north.
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So magnetic north is slightly off from true
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north, but it will give you a good
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idea of which direction is north.
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And then you might know which direction to walk to get
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home or find the nearest city, et cetera, et cetera.
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Maybe I should get a compass.
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Maybe this is a good Christmas gift idea as well.
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I don't know why you need rope, but they
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said if you're preparing, you should have rope.
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And then I thought to myself, maybe
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you need rope to help someone.
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Maybe the emergency situation is someone needs
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to be rescued when they're climbing.
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Maybe you need rope to pull a car out of a ditch.
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But a rope might be a handy thing to have.
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I didn't think of this one because we just have
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rope on the farm for a variety of reasons.
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So there's always rope somewhere.
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And the list said you should have an axe.
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Maybe you live somewhere where there's lots of trees
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and in order to heat your house, you need
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to go out and chop some firewood.
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It might be handy to have an axe in order to do that.
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It might be a good idea to have an axe and
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maybe a saw to be able to cut up wood to
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use in a fireplace or in a wood stove to keep
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your house warm during a power outage or other emergency.
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And then it's always good to have some blankets.
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We also keep a few blankets in our car in
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the winter, if we're going on a long trip, we
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keep a couple of blankets in the back of the
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van again, just in case we're somewhere cold and our
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van stops working or we're in an accident.
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It's always good to have your hat, your gloves.
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We call it a tuke, by the way, the hat, blankets.
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If you go on a long trip in the
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winter, Brent's probably familiar with this as well.
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It's just good to be prepared in those situations.
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Peace.
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