The European Union has this week urged citizens to stockpile enough food, water and essentials for 72 hours in case of disaster or attack.
It is part of an EU strategy to increase readiness for catastrophic floods and fires, pandemics and military attacks.
We’d like to hear your thoughts. What items could you not survive without if disaster struck?
In a video on her social media, European Commissioner for Crisis Management Hadja Lahbib, presents an emergency bag including her glasses, her documents, a flashlight, a Swiss army knife, medicine, a powerbank, tinned food and some cash.
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Outlining its first preparedness strategy, the European Commission said it wanted to encourage citizens to take “proactive measures to prepare for crises, such as developing household emergency plans and stockpiling essential supplies”.
What would be in your disaster preparedness bag? Are there any particular or unusual items you’d add to the list? Are there favourite foods you can’t do without? Is making one something you have thought about or something you will consider doing? Do you think such a call makes sense in the times we live in or does it feel like scaremongering?
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