 which simulates an earthquake of different magnitudes and the whole point of this is to give people an idea of what it feels like to be in an earthquake and we bring this out to different locations and Don you haven't been in this yet but it'll be interesting to see what it's like because you never know earthquakes could happen at any moment so we did exactly what we're supposed to do that's drop cover and hold on and you what did you think of that it's it's pretty wild uh you don't yeah I mean there's a lot of movement and I could definitely feel the things falling on top so yeah right and and so what we found is that a lot of times in earthquakes you think that a building is going to collapse on you and that's your biggest chance of getting injured the reality is that most injuries occur from stuff falling so that's unsecured items like we see here you've got all these books and things that can hit you in the head you can have a big flat panel television come down you could have you know maybe a coffee pot or something off of the top of your refrigerator so there's a lot of things that could cause an injury so we tell people and we teach them when the shaking starts you drop cover and hold on and if you can get underneath something and like this case we can't get under the couch so it's just drop cover your head and hold on until the shaking stops there's always a chance for aftershocks you should be aware of that and then after the shaking stops that's when you take the steps of deciding if you're going to evacuate or what you're going to do maybe shut off the gas because the gas means now so it was a pretty wild first experience for me so I have to say you know being new to California that was my first time of even having something simulated that and it is definitely an experience of just even trying to get down to the ground and but yeah it's a very interesting experience so glad I had the opportunity all right well that's the shake trailer and in the next segment we're going to be talking about what you should put in your emergency preparedness kit so we're here in downtown Sacramento where we're doing a demonstration for people on what it's like to be in an earthquake and we're also teaching people what you need to do to prepare yourself for an earthquake or any kind of disaster joining me is Don Limbloom with American Red Cross here thank you for joining me yeah thank you so what we want to find out is what is it we need to put in our kit that we would use in a disaster yeah well what's really interesting there's some really basic items that you want to have to be ready for an event so some of the things would be like having a flashlight extra batteries for the one in spares to have if something happens things like making sure you have a three-day supply of water usually our general recommendation is a gallon of water per person per day well that's important to know absolutely non-perishable food items so something that canned goods type of thing and make sure you have your can opener yeah that's really key I know a lot of people are like well you're going to be in your car and stranded somewhere or whatever and you've got cans how do you get in it right exactly that's really clever another thing is just some of the things that we don't always think about we see this all the time at the Red Cross and emergency response but make sure you have your prescription drugs you know have an extra supply on hand and if you don't have that have a copy of actually your prescription in and of itself because that's another piece that you know we can get refilled or do something like that but have that in place some of the other items if you have infants having baby food and formula not available and on hand and another thing to think about is that you know you don't know in the event you know how you know how much injuries are how people might get harmed during the event so make sure in your kit that you have a first date kit so that you can administer that if anything happens and so in here like so here's like a little tiny first aid kit and it doesn't have to be a big fancy one you don't have to get something that's cost you $50 or $100 no just be just be a really basic one it doesn't have to be um like you said anything too too huge toilet paper toilet paper could be a handy item to have you know and people laugh about that but it's true you never know when you're going to get stuck and you may need that right it is important to have I think some other things you know spare a set of keys in case you need that access to your home or or to that sort of thing so a lot of good things that you can have people can go actually to our website to find a full list of the type of items that you want to do to make your own kit and it really doesn't take a lot of effort even if you do it as a family for example you could do one item per month or one week per month just pick it up when you do your regular grocery store run and it just it's a good thing to have you know in any event of any type of disaster emergency that you're ready to go and that's great these are great tips and it doesn't have to be expensive you could just go around your house and just pick some things and put it in a bag and have it ready to go for whatever the disaster may be absolutely all right well thanks Don thanks for showing us and if you want more information you can go to the American Red Cross website which is www.redcrosscrc.org and then we also have totally unprepared.com which is a place you can see some videos and some other ways in which you can prepare yourself in your house and secure your items if you're going to be in in an area where there might be an earthquake which is basically all of California thanks for joining us