Some lives are lived by design; others are determined by what life throws at them. What type of a person are you?
Reactive?
Spontaneous?
Determined Planner?
Roll with the punches?
You may feel more comfortable in one of these rolls than the others and you may have to act/react in ways that were unanticipated. Why is your style? How do you prefer to respond? Can you do it in a better way?
Practicing, for example, an escape route and meeting place for the family and rehearsing it will create an opportunity for your to do something familiar in the event that you need to evacuate your home. There will be less need to improvise when you know what the options are.
Go ahead- set the DVR on the show that you want to watch tonight and practice how you will prepare for something important.