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What do you need to make emergency situations more livable? You may want to add a few of these items to your emergency survival kits of food, water, blankets, etc. Here’s a slide show of ten tech tools that were found indispensable in the recent California fire evacuations.

If you live in an area which has tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, flooding, fires or unknown future emergencies, you will find information about these items useful. The author figured out what worked and what didn’t work, why each item is needed, etc.

Take a look because some of the items can be used for day-to-day routines or outings. Ten tech essentials for emergency evacuation by Steve Kovsky at eWeek.

Your office is flooded, your files/photographs/documents are lost, and the words come back to haunt you: “When is the last time you backed up?” Lost documents, viruses, the ‘read error’ message regarding your hard drive. And it always seems to happen right before an important project is due.Here is an option that requires virtually zero maintenance by you and better yet, it is free (up to 2GB).

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Does my insurance really cover me? Hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, flooding, and other unexpected disasters can leave you homeless. But I’m insured you say. Many are finding that although they have insurance, they either did not have coverage or did not have adequate coverage for what happened to their homes and possessions. What to do? Here’s some help.

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