 With Emergency Preparedness Month approaching, the Pike County Health Department is working to ensure individuals are prepared for emergency situations. And of course it's certainly fresh on all of our minds here in Pike County in Eastern Kentucky following the recent floods, but we want to remember emergency preparedness and keeping certain supplies on hand in the event of emergencies. So we like to say, you know, to remember like in fall and spring when you're setting your clocks, remember to also check your stocks. So it's just a nice reminder for daylight savings time to be your trigger to remember to check those emergency preparedness items that you need to have on hand. At Pifal Medical Center, our vision of creating a heart and vascular institute that will reliable any other in Kentucky is a reality. We've assembled a top team of more than 30 multidisciplinary providers. Together, those highly experienced providers perform many of the most advanced cardiac procedures available anywhere. We have armed them with cutting edge technology and resources needed to provide comprehensive heart care close to home. Pike for Medical Center, when it comes to your heart, place your care in our hands. Eastern Kentucky recently experienced how emergency situations can arise quickly with little to no warning. A 72 hour go bag is a vital tool in preparedness. Important items to have include drinking water, a battery operated radio, flashlights and a can opener. Well, you know, when an emergency or disaster occurs, we normally are not aware that it's going to happen. So it almost always catches us unaware even, you know, we might have emergency alerts, but those are, you know, limited as a amount of time that we have to prepare. Certainly you don't normally have enough time to go grocery shopping to get non perishable food items to buy things like a hand can opener, a radio with batteries. So those are the types of things that you don't normally have enough time or enough notification when disaster is going to strike. And like I said, you know, winter is upon us and we have ice storms and winter storms here in the mountains and it's difficult to get out and it can be scary even for a day or two to be without communication and food and water, you know, you can go longer without food, but water is very important to have, you know, that three to seven day water supply, bottled water available. For more information on how to build a preparedness kit, go to Pike County Health Department on Facebook. For Mountaintop News, I'm Brianna Robinson.