Lighted House Numbers – Make Your Family Safe In An Emergency

In the winter of 1998 we learned about the importance of having lighted house numbers. At that time we lived on the West Coast of Canada, in a lovely little beach town about 45 minutes south of the city of Vancouver and about 5 minutes north of the U.S.A. border. We had three young children at the time, with the newest being a newborn baby girl.

We had had the baby home for only two nights when one night my wife started screaming from the upstairs bedroom; the baby was not breathing! Our precious new baby was turning blue from lack of oxygen. I quickly called 911 and rushed upstairs to help my wife. The ambulance station was only about 2 minutes from our house; why was it taking so long for them to come? I would later find out that it was our lack of a lighted house number that caused the delay.

We did some very gentle mouth to mouth and the baby slowly started to regain some pink color to her skin. Finally, after about 20 minutes the ambulance arrived. The ambulance drivers were very distraught as they were upset about not being able to find our house.  Out house numbers were hidden by bushes and were not lit by a porch light or were not illuminated at all; they were being very verbal (i.e., complaining!) about how people need to be aware of having properly lit address plaques for emergency situations.

It horrified me to think that this simple feature of our home could have cost our newborn daughter her life - if we had not been able to revive her it would have been too late by the time the ambulance drivers got there.

As they were leaving the ambulance drivers highly recommended that we invest in some more visible or illuminated numbers. I took their advice and headed straight to the internet the next day. It was possible to find an incredible selection of house numbers and custom address plaques at some amazing prices online.

For our house I chose a beautiful ceramic decorative house numbers from Outdoordecor.com, I had the sign custom made with our house number and it arrived by courier within 2 weeks. We put the address sign right under a porch light and cut all the bushes away.

There Is An Amazing Online Selection Of Address Markers

My wife loved the picture tiles on the ceramic address markers that Outdoordecor.com carried. She ordered their "At the Beach Ceramic House Marker" to put on our front gate. It was so absolutely beautiful and suited the environment of the little beach town that we lived in. We had numerous friends and guests comment on this address plaque.

There were many, many types of ceramic address markers to choose from, with picture tiles that ranged from hummingbirds, flowers, sunflowers, palm beaches to a scene of a country walk!

I would highly recommend that everyone take a look at their current address sign, look at it's visibility factor. Can you see it from all areas of the street? And, is it visible at night? If you have a house that is set back from the road or his hidden by high hedges then you will be happy to know that there is a great online selection of custom estate yard address markers and lawn address markers that are available. These all come on stakes for setting into your lawn, or for putting on the perimeter of your property.

Remember that your investment could save a life. So go online and have some fun with choosing new house address plaques!