Survival Preparedness: A good way to prepare for any emergency is to get some survival kits for yourself and family members. Have survival kits for your car, home and office so that you will always have a kit nearby ready to go at a moments notice. You never know when a tornado, hurricane, winter storm, earthquake, fire, natural disaster or some type of civil unrest will strike. Having an emergency survival kit at the ready will take some of the stress off should an emergency strike.