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Don’t gatekeep these tips

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Don’t gatekeep our best safety tips – share them with your whole family! All month long, we hope you share these preparedness tips with everyone! #NatlPrep #Ready Americans Stand Ready!

We hope you are widely sharing all these preparedness/safety tips. In fact, not only sharing, but also ASKING your communities to share within their communities too.

Our collective information is bee-hiving it a collaborating with way that is beneficial for all. Abd sharing information is good for any audience that we regularly engage with and perhaps reach a few that we don’t engage regularly with.

Additionally, weird that people think that a big city will thwart a tornado.

Truth be told, Mother Nature doesn’t care about size as she will send a tornado anywhere.

So keep this in mind as you educate others on the possible hazards.

Although they hear it from me all the time, my family gets regular weather updates from me all the time that I share from the NWS-Chicago and NWS-Honolulu teams. This way, they know they are getting the info from the foremost authority, not some self-proclaimed “expert/guru”.

So be consistent in sharing sourced information and regularly address concerns when there is severe weather inbound to your area.

Keep them informed and be one of the trusted sources of information for your family and friends.

@rusnivek

Being informed on the sich #NatlPrep

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Day-2 of National preparedness month!

Being informed of the dangers and knowing what to do in an emergency is critical to the safety for you and your family. #NatlPrep #Ready Americans Stand Ready!

The hardest part of any emergency or disaster…is actually knowing what to do.

The theme of knowing the dangers and being informed is always an easy sell because the nature of our business is always changing. Compounding the problem even more is that every disaster/emergency is NOT the same.

One more time for the people in the back – no two disasters are alike.

This makes it challenging for Emergency Managers to urgently inform and educate their communities because the variability of preparedness will always be changing.

So take a few minutes more to appropriately educate your audiences on how to find the right info. I would suggest you start with severe weather in your locality…this way, you have a wide dearth of topics to cover.

Then, as they get more comfortable with the weather preparedness, then move them on to bigger sandwiches (like cyber threats, HAZMAT, or even active shooters etc…)

I see bright things for your preparedness efforts this year.

Go forth and do good stuff.

@rusnivek

Welcome to 2026 National Preparedness Month!

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Kicking off an entire month of preparedness as we join partners from across the U.S. as we enhance your preparedness level for any emergency or disaster. #NatlPrep #Ready

September is always National Preparedness Month and it’s a great time to better your preparedness efforts.

This year’s theme is Americans Stand Ready so follow along all month long on social media.

BTW-Did you know that September is also:

  • National Recovery Month
  • Hispanic Heritage Month
  • Suicide Prevention Month
  • National Coupon Month
  • National Library Card Sign-up Month
  • National Potato Month
  • National Classical Music Month
  • National Chicken Month
  • National Service Dog Month
  • National Honey Month
  • National Rice Month
  • National Pain Awareness Month
  • National Mushroom Month
  • National Americana Month
  • National Sewing Month
  • National Mortgage Professional Month
  • National Piano Month

The more you know, the better you’ll be prepared right?!?

Esp in case of a hot potato or real chicken emergency. Boom!

And thank goodness it’s not Monday #NPM

IYKYK

Glad you are along for the ride. Let’s goooooooooooooooooooooo!

@rusnivek