Do You Keep Your Cool in Emergencies?

I depends on the emergency if I can stay cool and collected. I know how to deal with a lot of household emergencies. I know what do in case of a tornado. Now when it came to flooding. Like we had the first couple of days in May. I lost it, I was freaking out bad. The water crossed the road and was in my front yard before I could even blink. When it got up to my front porch, I really lost it. I started to panic really bad. Now on the 2nd day of the flooding, I was ok. I had to be, the flooding was actually worse, because the ground was already wet from the day before. I actually had to wade through it to get my landscaping bricks to put around the house to keep the water from going into my home. That is something I don't ever want to deal with again. My kids know the drills in case of a fire. Luckily we have fire alarms all through out the house. I do need to look into getting one of those ladders in case they can't get down the stairs. I would probably be cool during a house fire, but then later freak out after I lost everything.

Where I live there are a lot of water in the creek, so if there is a fire in my house, I'll take plenty of water and pour into the burning house, because in my house has no fire extinguishers may be because I live in rural areas. yes of course .... If there is a fire I will take my family out of the house, but I do not think for a drill for my family to deal with house fires. I think humans will instinctively stay away from the fire if there is a fire without trained.

No I'm not a cool one in emergencies. I"m the one wigging out over it. That's where my hubby would take over... phew. We have had a few tornado's hit during the past 10 days but not in my town but surrounding communities. Quite scarey! We just chill in the basement til we either hear an all clear or the sirens stop going off.

I know how to keep my cool in an emergency. With two children, you have to. Nothing can get accomplished when you allow panic to set in. The best thing is stay calm, alert and think with common sense. This should let you keep a cool head to tackle the situation at hand.

For me yes it is better to do that than to rattle because you have many thing's to do and no pain.

I inherited my sense from my mother. She was always going ballistic over the little things, like bread crumbs left on the bread board, but whenever one of her kids had a major problem she was always cool. I found her to be my tower of strength when I needed someone in my corner the most. Now that I'm a parent, I'm finding that I'm like her. The little things bug me when they keep repeating over and over again with my daughter...like getting the dishes done every night instead of once a month! But if we have a real emergency I stay cool as a cucumber. Once we were driving through Canada out 65 miles from the nearest tow truck and our transmission blew on us. I never worried in that situation, even though we were stuck and the tow was going to be exorbitantly expensive, I somehow knew we would be okay. Within five minutes a trucker picked us up and took us to the nearest phone where we waited for something like two or three hours for the tow truck to come pick us up. When my sister kicked us out of her house, I was able to borrow money to purchase a second hand van and we lived in that van for two summers until I was able to get back on my feet again and find housing. Being homeless is never easy but it can be fun if you make it that way. I found that my attitude made all the difference between my being too stressed out to function and conquering the setbacks that had put us in that van.

I don't think that I can keep my cool in emergencies.I am a very sensitive person and always reacts instantly to any event.Well emergencies keep my nerves on end always.I got to learn to be cool and calculative.I don't know when this learning process is going to be over.

That was indeed a brave and collected approach. I learnt something in your posting - the flour and baking soda trick. Thanks for that. Yes, you are right. One should have knowledge of all such tricks for different types of emergencies. But what happens most of the time is the persons tend to lose composure and these tricks do not strike on the spur of the moment. So the first thing is to keep cool and act fast with whichever best idea one can get. You have done excellently from all angles. Congrats.

No i dnt on last sunday my little cousin stuck somehtin into the socket in the wall and he had to be rushed to the hospital.I totally paniced and fell out .I really dnt take bad news well but i think i need to try

I have heard some amazing stories of pepole who keep a real calm head when things go south. From what I have noticed it seems that individuals with loved ones can really pull things together in tragic situations. It really is amazing to see pepole who you would not expect to handel the situation really end up being the hero. I don't really have a family but I do remember my momther going over what to do in case somting were to happen, such as a fire or a break-in.