Is your family prepared for disasters like floods, hurricanes, and tornados? In this episode of The Lab, Daddy Clay and Daddy Brad tackle the topic of disaster preparedness. To do this, they compare survival kits. Find out which dad has a survival kit that includes a list of American Red Cross recommended items such as water, batteries, matches, an emergency weather radio, a flashlight, and a first aid kit. And find out which one has an emergency preparedness survival kit of food like beans, rices, jalapenos and evaporated milk. Join the conversation at DadLabs.com in our forums and leave a comment to let us know about your disaster plan. DadLabs Ep. 635 is brought to you by BabyBjorn.

Is Your Family Prepared for Disaster?

Brad: Today in the Lab….Disaster!

Clay:  Are You…Prepared?

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Brad: ...This episode is brought to you by Baby Bjorn. One thing you can depend on being safe all the time, Baby Bjorn.

Clay: Brad, I’m going to go ahead and admit this to you. I,  I’m having some second thoughts about letting you talk me into doing a disaster segment.

Brad: Why? Dude, people need to be prepared. Families need to be prepared for any eventuality. Think about it. Hurricanes? Floods? Tornadoes? Just overall pestilence. What are you going to do?

Clay: That’s pretty much why.

Brad: You’re not prepared, that’s why.

Clay: No, I am prepared. I even bought in my disaster kit to show you that I am prepared.

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Brad: What I have here is the Red Cross emergency survival kit. You can go and find this at www.redcross.org and get your own list to make your kit. Okay, Daddy Clay, do you have water in your kit? You need 1 gallon per person per day of water.

Clay: I’ve got water. Right, there it is.

Brad: O…kay?

Clay: There it is… there’s water

Brad: Ok, you have about 15 ounces of water. Yeah

Clay: Yeah were good,  yeah, you see my kids, I have three kids, one for each kid, boom, were set.

Brad: What are you and Kim going to drink?

Clay: We’ll have wine.

Brad: Oh, do you have a non-perishable easy-to prepare food items?

Clay: Yeah, right here.

Brad: (laughing) this is all your food?

Clay: That’s like space food, dude.

Clay: (laughing) That’s like…

Brad: Is like a block of food….Okay, flashlight?

Clay: I am doing good on flashlight. I’ve got one, but I have two flashlights.

Brad: Oooh. Wow

Clay: let see…they both, they both work.

Brad: battery powered or hand-crank weather radio or emergency weather radio…are the batteries in there Daddy Clay?

Clay: I don’t know.

Brad: Does it have a hand-crank?

Clay: no, it’s a….

Brad: How are you going to listen to it if doesn’t have batteries?

Clay: it has these really bad-ass ear buds.

Brad: (laughing) you don’t have the batteries? Great.

Clay:  No, I have batteries

Brad: You have extra batteries?

Clay: I have batteries.

Brad: extra batteries is on the list.

Clay: extra batteries

Brad: No wait come here, look, you think those batteries are going to fit, and this is not a NOA weather radio, it’s like a little walkman from 1985.

Clay: yeah

Brad: First–aid kit? You have a first-aid kit?

Clay: I do, right here, first–aid kit. 30 pieces.

Brad: You have, like some band-aids, that’s awesome.

Clay: Multi-purpose tool?

Brad: I do. I bought this tiny leather man.

Brad: Oh good.

Clay: It’s like a junior leather man in the kit.

Brad: Sanitation and personal hygiene items.

Clay: I have a rubber glove.

Brad: Ok.

Clay: and this is a biohazard waste bag.  So, I think you poop in there.

Brad: Family and emergency contact information.

Clay:  Oh, wait, I’ve got a brochure.

Brad: of your family information? And as you can see it’s not filled out.

Clay: Its got a place. I’ll have a pen.

Brad: Ok great. Emergency blanket? You’ve got more poop bags.

Clay: No, I have this plastic sheeting and this duck tape. And you can make a sleeping bag out of this plastic sheeting and the duck tape.

Brad: Ok great. Surgical mask? Matches?

Clay: Ok, wait.  I do. I have an emergency whistle and I have surgical masks. This is what these are, right here

Brad: Do you have any matches?

Clay: no.

Brad: You are going to make it, like an afternoon.

Clay: What’s your disaster kit look like, Mr. survivalist?

Brad: Dude I can get along like forever.

Clay: Let me see

Brad: First, for sustenance, I’ve got the big 20lbs sack of beans. And you don’t want to eat beans without rice.  Got some rice here, 20lbs of rice. Got some evaporated milk. Will never go bad. And because disasters don’t have to be bland, I have a big ass jar of jalapenos.

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Clay: okay disaster preparedness. I get it, I understand, but can we talk for a minute, about this water thing. 1 gallon per person in the household per day for two weeks is what you’re supposed to keep on hand?

Brad: right

Clay: For my family that’s 70 gallons of water. That’s 560lbs of water. Where do you keep that?

Brad: bathtub

Clay: But where do I keep the Merlot?

Brad: dude, you’re going to make it like a day and a half.

Brad: If you’d like more information on surviving the impending doom, we encourage you to go to redcross.org they have tons of great information there.

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Brad: We’d like to know what you think? Do you have an emergency preparedness kit? What’s the most important thing in it? Let us know. Leave a comment on this video or go to dadlabs.com and join the conversation.

Clay: we’ll see you next time here in the lab.