Our Power Outage Wake Up Call
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE January 2017 is setting rainfall records in California, pulling us out of many years of drought but making trouble in other ways. During one of...
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Enter to Win $1,000 in Freeze-Dried Food Storage
You are always looking for ways to bolster your preparedness and make sure you have socked away enough food in case of a crisis. Well, in celebration of Meridian’s 18th birthday this month, we’ve been...
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To Eat or Not To Eat: A Guide to Food Safety After a Power Outage
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Recently we were participating in a HAM radio net and two of the men reported having a power outage a few days earlier. One commented that they...
View ArticleDoes Your Family Have an Evacuation Plan in Place?
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE The past two weeks have been very challenging to those living in California with heavy rains and high winds. More than 200,000 have been...
View ArticleWhen the Power Goes Out and You Still Need to Cook
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Since power outages are the most common of all disaster and the one most of us will face one at one time or another, let’s take a look at a...
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Meridian has a Winner! Are You the One?
Meridian recently ran a contest where we were giving away more than $1,000 in premium, delicious, freeze-dried, twenty-five-year shelf life food storage from Thrive Life. With more than 10,000 entries,...
View ArticleWe’re Havin’ a Heat Wave: 23 Things to Do About It
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE It’s looking more and more like a hotter than normal summer. This past week we had temperatures over 100 degrees everyday with temperatures in...
View ArticleWhy Mylar Blankets are an Essential for Emergency Preparedness
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE You have seen many lists describing the items you should have in a 72-hour kit and they all include mylar blankets. They are cheap, small, and...
View ArticleMinimizing the Fear of a Terrorist Attack
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE The Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack was established by Congress in 2001 to advise...
View ArticleTerrorism: Acknowledging the Threat, Minimizing the Fear
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE The following is part two in a two-part series. To read part one, click here. We cannot provide against every contingency. But we can provide...
View ArticleReturning Home After the Flood
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Our prayers are with all those in Texas and Louisiana who are dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Some are now returning to their...
View ArticleThe Floodwaters are Receding: What Now?
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Cover image: AP Photo/David J. Phillip Are you sharing Emergency Preparation articles? This week we have seen an historic disaster in Texas....
View ArticleAll is Not Lost: Rescuing Memories After the Flood
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Clean up after a disaster can be a nightmare as you rummage through a lifetime of memories now dirty and soggy. Don’t give up. All is not lost...
View ArticleFive Minute Evacuation: What to Take When You’re Getting out Fast
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE As I was watching the rescue operations following Hurricane Harvey I heard a woman being rescued from a flooded home say, “ I just have my...
View Article“We Are His Hands”: An Interview with Mormon Helping Hands in the Aftermath...
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Cover image: Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Sister Cristina B. Franco spoke at a devotional full of Mormon...
View ArticleSelf-Reliance: More Than Food Storage and Savings
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Before he became a member of the Church, Peter Uglow had spent most of his adult life chasing financial success. By all outward appearances, he...
View ArticleTherefore Let Us Not Sleep, As Do Others
Cover image: Hurricane Irma seen from space. Heavenly Father has given us signs of events that will occur before the second coming to the Savior. Throughout time God has revealed these signs to His...
View ArticleKeeping the Answers to Your Most Urgent Questions Available During an Emergency
Not sure what to do? Check your binder. Before we begin today I wanted to take a moment to thank those of you who send comments and who have joined our facebook page. Feedback is so important to be...
View ArticleIn an Emergency: Let There Be Light
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE We have all seen them and hopefully we all have a few in our 72 hour and other kits; glow sticks. What are they really and why should we have...
View ArticleAlleviating Your Family’s Restlessness During Times of Disaster
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE During a time of stress it is so important to have some ideas ready to help alleviate times of boredom and sometimes fear. Carefully ready thru...
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