Final day of the first week of the 2020 National Preparedness Month. So to close this week out, we are going to talk about your family communications plan…aka comms plan.
No, not that kinda plan.
An essential part of your emergency plan is the easy family communications plan.
WAIT…did you say “I already have their phone numbers in my cell phone. Why do I need anything else?”
<eye roll>
Your memory isn’t that great. You are human. And it’s been proven that during a crisis/duress, your critical skills and ability to recount precise information sucks.
This is precisely why you need a family communications plan.
Technology has proven to fail and fail at critical times in a crisis or disaster. While your cell phone is a critical piece of equipment, there are times where you lose your phone.
Yeah, I know all of you Apple Watch users have used the find my phone feature.
Regularly, we find evacuees after a storm, they report that they do not have good reception or adequate data service for their phones. This renders their phone useless when trying to communicate essential information to loved ones.
And we all know when we lose power to our phones that most definitely eliminate all critical phone numbers, emails, etc…
So three solid reasons why you want to consider having a hard copy family communications plan ready in case of an emergency.
Need some help? Here’s an easy template provided by our Ready.Gov campaign
Click to access Family_Comm_Plan_508_20150820.pdf
Easy peasy right?
Do the right thing for the safety of your family.
Reporting live and closing out the first week of the 2020 National Preparedness Month!
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