It's begun!!

The 7 day preparedness challenge I have been waiting for has begun! As of today, we are to do no shopping, eating out, or spending money for the next 7 days. Today's challenge consists of a flood having hit our part of town with everyone being evacuated from their homes. We had one hour from receipt of email to grab our 72 hour kits, and leave home for 5 hours. During the evacuation, one family member was injured, cutting their toe. At the end of the day we are to meet at our pre-arranged family meeting place and return to our home. There we will find that there is no power, the food in the refrigerator is unusable, and the basement is flooded! (One good thing about no basements in Las Vegas!!)We are to cook dinner with no power and use no power for lights or entertainment for the rest of the night. What I have realized so far: I have contractors working at my home today, Ed thought I should tell them they have to use hand hammers and drills and see how they reacted! However, since they are working here today I have had to modify my experience. I will leave home after they leave today, Ed and I will meet up at our pre-arranged meeting place (hope he knows where it is!), then return home. We will be cooking MRE's for dinner using one of our outdoor cooking methods (which I just taught in our Relief Society preparedness group a couple months ago), grabbing our lanterns and flashlights and enjoying a simple evening at home! I have been working to get my preparedness status complete, but realized the other day, I haven't got my backpacks with clothing together yet. Of course, I would be evacuating today with no extra clothing, but other than that, I think we can meet this one no problem! Each day will be a new challenge, check back to see our adventure and maybe picture your family in this same circumstance, how prepared are you???