If you’ve made it this far, you are well on your way to being prepared! And at this point we should be done with the step which included the most work – Making Your Plan. We have one more week of preparing information then we’ll start building our preparedness kit! To help out others, as…
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Make Your Plan Part 2 – Week 2
In this next part of week two, we need to figure out our plan for sheltering: What is my shelter plan? The Ready.gov site advises us to consider where to take shelter if we receive a warning or believe we are threatened with an emergency. The local plan we looked up last week might have listed some…
Make Your Plan – Week 2
Now that we are aware of our risks, this week we are going to make our own disaster plan. This week will probably require the most work of all because there is so much to think about and plan for. Fortunately for us, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has created a few resources to…
Know your Risks – Week 1
This is week one, and we are starting by looking up our local hazard mitigation plan so we understand the risks we need to plan for. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) publishes an online map where you can check the status of your State’s plan and see if your county has a plan. Some…
Are You Prepared for the Next Disaster?
We often hear from emergency response professionals that right after a disaster it may be a few days before anyone can assist us and during that time we may need to rely on ourselves to survive. So having everything in place ahead of time can ensure we make it through a disaster and that our…