Leonard Sadowski was at his Marion Street home when firefighters came to his door about 6:30 a.m. (2.07.05) and told him to leave. Sadowski, his wife Mary and teenage daughter Christine went to the Red Cross shelter. Sadowski anticipated he would be in for a long ordeal, so he took along a deck of cards.

"I figured if we're going to be evacuated, instead of sitting here and twiddling my thumbs, my thinking was I'd find something to do," Sadowski said as he sat at a table in the shelter playing solitaire.

About 200 people were evacuated from their homes in the Creighton section of East Deer so private contractors for Norfolk Southern Railroad could remove from the Allegheny River a ruptured tanker car filled with a hazardous chemical.

Wouldn't it be nice to take more than a deck of cards??

Time to finish that disaster kit you were always meaning to put together - honest you were! -  but failed to finish.

Hurricanes.  Tsunamis.  Ice storms.  Have any of these reminded you of CERT training, "Be prepared!" and that small pile of stuff you threw together the week after you finished your training?  You know, the beginnings of your home emergency kit, the one you know you need to keep in a central location in case you and your family need to relocate to the basement or evacuate by car.  The one that took back seat to the demands of your job, the kids, and Christmas.

Over the next 10 weeks, I'm going to make it easy for you.  Each week, you have one task.  One.  That's all.  That's not much, right?  You won't even have to pull out your book and look up anything.  Just print out the list.  On shopping weeks, put it in the car.  On other weeks, tape it to the refrigerator.  Or the bathroom mirror.

You know the saying: Just do it.