Re: UGH. I hate to ask this, but in light of today's events....what is your disaster plan for getting to your kids or getting to safety??

We have no plan for anything like that and today scared the crap out of me. But the real question is, how the heck do I even get off of LI if anything bad (god forbid) happened? The traffic would be unreal who knows what anyone could actually do.

Re: UGH. I hate to ask this, but in light of today's events....what is your disaster plan for getting to your kids or getting to safety??

We have no plan.

Re: UGH. I hate to ask this, but in light of today's events....what is your disaster plan for getting to your kids or getting to safety??

I am home with my children but DH works in Manhattan at Ground Zero and we dont have a plan as to what he would do or how to get in touch. I guess if cell phones are not working I just have to trust that he is on his way to us or to my sisters apt in Brooklyn. Other than that, I am taking this week as a wake up call to be better stocked up with supplies. As for getting off of Long Island in the event of an emergency, I think we are all screwed if it came to that. It would take DAYS to get us all off the island!

Re: UGH. I hate to ask this, but in light of today's events....what is your disaster plan for getting to your kids or getting to safety??

I'm 7 miles from home. Both DCs schools are on the way home. DH works from home.


We both will walk to the schools (this is assuming driving isn't possible) and if the child is not there, we will assume the other picked them up (hopefully someone there would be able to tell us) and meet at home.

Re: UGH. I hate to ask this, but in light of today's events....what is your disaster plan for getting to your kids or getting to safety??

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Posted by CookieMomster

We are inland, and our rendevous point is the house, the alternate is the closest fire department. We have an emergency kit, both in the car, and a larger one in the house. We keep a reserve of gasoline, in a container in the garage, just in case, and the kids safety takes priority over our own at all points. If we leave the house to go to the FD I have a window paint pen and will write a word on the door, it's our safety word. If he ever calls and I say the word he knows to contact the authorities or that there is an emergency. Also we have a plan of if anyone is hurt we go to one hospital and stay there, and wait for the other to arrive.

This is SUCH good information/advice. We have NO emergency plan whatsoever, I am way too nonchalant about those types of things. But now with two kids and so much craziness going on in the world, I know we NEED to make a plan like yours.

Re: UGH. I hate to ask this, but in light of today's events....what is your disaster plan for getting to your kids or getting to safety??

if we have no phone/cell phone accesss
then 1 - meet a at the daycare and travel together.... since daycare is only a town away from home

Re: UGH. I hate to ask this, but in light of today's events....what is your disaster plan for getting to your kids or getting to safety??

We have no plan, and yesterday kind of freaked me out. Just getting out of my office building took forever.

Re: UGH. I hate to ask this, but in light of today's events....what is your disaster plan for getting to your kids or getting to safety??

I have comfortable hard soled slippers, water and granola bars at my desk for an emergency. I work about 8 miles away so I would walk home a certain way if I needed to. This way, if DH is able to (and the baby is safe) he could try to come get me.

DH works a mile away from home, so he would go home.

I went over all safety procedures with my mother. I told her if there was a real earthquake, to make sure the baby was under the dining room table and to cover her.

I always thought a safe thing to do in the event of an emergency like a tornado warning or maybe earthquake aftershocks - would be to put DD in her car seat (but in the house) so she would be safe and protected. . .


It makes me feel better to have these little plans in place!

Re: UGH. I hate to ask this, but in light of today's events....what is your disaster plan for getting to your kids or getting to safety??

This may not sound like a plan......but it is.

I want to move off of LI. Up to Massachusetts, Rhode Island, somewhere like that.

Yesterday, I felt completely trapped and helpless in NYC....so far from my kids (and DH). I hate that feeling. I also hate feeling scared everytime the subway gets stuck underground....wondering if something is wrong and wondering if I'll ever get home.

Obviously a dissaster could happen anywhere, but commuting and being so far from my family scares the sh!t out of me.

Re: UGH. I hate to ask this, but in light of today's events....what is your disaster plan for getting to your kids or getting to safety??

Girl...the Brooklyn Bridge is the way to go

I did it 9/11, the blackout and i was walking to it yesterday when I saw the x28 which takes me to bay ridge so i ran on that

I dont like the trains in these types of situations

I also agree with the PP. Being in NYC with all these damn buildings and cranes scares t he heck out of me and the fact that my babies are away from me....UGH

Message edited 8/24/2011 9:10:42 AM.

Re: UGH. I hate to ask this, but in light of today's events....what is your disaster plan for getting to your kids or getting to safety??

I will add this and I think it makes a difference.

After 9/11 and the blackout I was always very good about having sneakers, water, cash and some type of food and a fully charged phone.

I have become lack about having all those things on me at all times and yesterday was indeed a wake up call

Re: UGH. I hate to ask this, but in light of today's events....what is your disaster plan for getting to your kids or getting to safety??

We need to make one as well. My husband tends to laugh me off when I say things like this but this is serious. I am working an event on Saturday(Irene is supposed to it here at 2PM but no one knows how hard. My husband will be home with the kids. Luckily we have a couple of interior places they can be, though I am worried about trees! Ugh.

Re: UGH. I hate to ask this, but in light of today's events....what is your disaster plan for getting to your kids or getting to safety??

DH & I are both in Manhattan.

My family would get the kids. Our post 9/11 plan was to meet outside of Manhattan at my old school in case of emergency & get to LI anyway we can.

We do have a way out of the city if the trains aren't running.

Re: UGH. I hate to ask this, but in light of today's events....what is your disaster plan for getting to your kids or getting to safety??

Since 9/11 I've had contingency plans. Ironically everyone just humored me because of my personal experience and then on the night of the black out, all of my contingencies fell into place. No one was left lost or out of touch.

We have several contingencies even here.

The game plan is get to AJ and get home. If home is not an option, my office, not my office, then auntie’s.

Contingencies are for the following:

Weather event with temporary disruption of service or accumulative affect (Snow in NY, rain in TX)
Catastrophic event (all the things we don’t want to talk or think about)
Lack of Communication (a bit different responses, we act as if the other knows the plan)

For each of those contingencies there are scenarios for if we are at work, or not.

Our ultimate goals are as follows:
15mins from event for contact Jim & I - This means if the event is local to him or me, we call each other because it may not be at his place or mine respectively.
30mins game plan for AJ retrieval if necessary
1hr regroup (at one of 4 locations)
12hrs New action plan if necessary


On the day of the black out (pre AJ) my contingency plan was put into action. Jim had to locate me. He was stuck on the F train in the city for 3hrs. I was at work midtown. Since he wasn’t at work (in long island) his goal was to get to me. I had to sit still. He found someone who had service on the train and got a msg to me. Just one. “Ok, F past 47”. Its all I needed I knew he was fine, he was on the uptown F and literally underneath me. I called his family and mine. A few hours later I had to talk my security folks into letting him into our building. Spent the night in an AC’ed cooled office. Next morning took the chartered bus to Long Island, brother picked us up, all was well.


AJ's school is walking distance from our house and she goes to school with two teachers who live in our community. I have trained Jim into 2 different ways to get to AJ in a time of need. I have 2 myself.

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Re: UGH. I hate to ask this, but in light of today's events....what is your disaster plan for getting to your kids or getting to safety??

Great tips! Keep them coming!
we have no plan but need to get one together asap!
I work in the city so far away from DS and DH...