Moms Talk: Natural Disasters

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Each week in Moms Talk, our Moms Council of experts and smart moms take your questions, give advice and share solutions.

So grab a cup of coffee and settle in and welcome three of our Suffield moms, Cami Beiter, Lisa Coatti and Wendy Pierman Miztel. The topic today is earthquakes and hurricanes.

Did you and your kids feel the earthquake? While it didn't cause any serious damage in Suffield, feeling the earth move under you can still be upsetting. How did you address it with your family, especially with younger kids? Do you have any emergency plans with your family?

Lisa Coatti

Apparently it is best to be in Target during times of natural disaster. That is where we were during the earthquake. There was no indication that something “earthly” had occurred.

It wasn’t until we overheard another shopper talk about it at the next store on the trip that we started to realize something must have just happened. If we were home and I felt some kind of major movement of the house, I most likely would have blamed my children for jumping off the couch or breaking something.

 With the next natural disaster, in the form of water and wind approaching, it really is a good time to talk about emergency plans. We moved recently and the current events have reminded me that our family never updated the “meet at this spot in case of fire or emergency” plan.

My children were told that if there was a fire and they couldn’t get to us, to grab their siblings and get out of the house. We had a certain location to meet up after we all were outside. Should something happen now, I might just find my children hunkered down by the big maple in the front of our old house, the emergency location spot we drilled into their heads.

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Is it too late to buy a generator? We were out of town when the earthquake rattled the east coast last week. After we heard the news, the kids and I talked briefly about earthquakes and we called my parents in North Carolina to see if they were OK.



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