The kids were outside playing. I had finally gotten into work mode and was in the middle of a business call when screams erupted from the back yard.

A moment later my wife appeared at the sliding glass back door with our 7-year-old son, rushing him in toward the kitchen sink while yelling for someone to grab a towel.

Quickly telling the person on the other end of the call I had to go, then leaping up as I fumbled with the End Call button, I was barely out of my chair at the dining room table before I discovered the problem.

Jacob had cut his hand. Bad.

Tonight marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.

Anyone remotely familiar with the story recognizes much of the tragedy was largely preventable.

Even though the Titanic sank a century ago... there are still important modern prepping lessons to be learned from the disaster.

Here are three big ones...

Air purification (until the power goes out)

My wife suffers from severe dust allergies. Which doesn’t help when I turn our bedroom into a junk collection area as I drop off more and more “stuff” in there to sort through later.

Being a guy, I took the easy way out this Christmas. Instead of cleaning up my mess, I went out and bought the biggest, baddest True-HEPA air purification unit I could find in stock at my local department store and put it under the tree.

It’s a practical thing, you see.