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The “frog” story makes an excellent point. Often personal emergencies are not sudden and obvious. Sometimes they are, but many times they creep up on us. There may not be a single bad decision that leads to a situation becoming an emergency. It can be a series of events and reactions based on normalcy bias, or “it isn’t that bad yet” thinking. Modern society tries to train us not to “over react” and trust that things will get better, somehow.
Just as in wilderness survival training, the number one rule is when you are no longer able to stick to your normal plan: STOP AND THINK! Don’t keep on trucking and ignore the unusual circumstance. If something has happened to upset your normal activity then pause and consider worst case scenarios and preventive or mitigating actions you can take now, and what will be an indicator you should escalate to more mitigation.
We recently had a sudden and explosive fire in the Portland area (Eagle Creek) and 150 hikers became trapped between it and the Indian Creek fire (uncontrolled as well) 3 miles away. It was the calm and decisive action of an Air Force medic in the group that probably saved the entire group. At the very first report of a fire back on the trail, he immediately had everyone stay together, count off, help each other, and combine resources. It took 24 hours to get 150 people 14 miles to safety but they all made it. Some were wearing just swimsuits and flip flops for the waterfall pool swim. Without that clear thinking how many hikers would have continued on thinking it could not be that bad and ended up trapped?
Anyway, this is a good article and reminder to pay attention to every event during a disaster and reassess your circumstances and options early as possible.