Welcome to the 2020 National Preparedness Month!!!
As described by so many, this is the most perfect year to plan for the unexpected.
Join me and my esteemed colleagues as we help share preparedness tips all month and help get you through this rotten year.
Reporting live in my favorite month…..
This week we focus in on how we plan to help our neighbors and community. Yes, your own community.
Learn more about local government and how your hometown provides service before, during, and after an emergency. #NatlPrep
Me and the Mayor of my hometown!
By getting more involved in local government, you can better serve your community and ultimately your neighbors. Trust me, in the past few months, I have talked to my neighbors a ton on preparedness efforts and general safety measures.
#PlanAhead and be neighborly.
When planning for tools in your kits for your family and friends, canned goods are great, but don’t forget about the….
PlanAhead to include a can opener in your emergency preparedness kits. Bec you never know when it might come in handy. #NatlPrep
Make sure you are prepared for anything including your own foods.
And for good measure, get some SPAM!
For more free planning and preparedness tips, check out www.ready.gov
It’s still the third week of 2016 National Preparedness Month!
Trust me, you don’t need to wait for the earthquakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven (to) shake – just attend a few classes with local emergency management.
Don’t get frustrated…Preparedness is easy!
But seriously.
These classes can help better prepare you for many natural disasters, hazards, and/or common emergencies.
At the very least, they can detail what kind of actions will be taken by first responders in the response phase of the disaster.
In today’s class, we had a spirited discussion about MREs and preparedness kits. Even first responders and their respective families need emergency preparedness kits too.
Most of these short classes or day-long trainings are often free and scheduled well in advance. And if you can’t attend in-person trainings, there are many online classes available for no-cost on preparedness.
Yep, you guessed it, straight up good old networking with so many public safety pros.
Reporting live from SW Ohio…
“Don’t Wait. Communicate. Make Your Emergency Plan Today.”
Preparing for emergencies isn’t exactly a fun thing to do….but snacks will make it easier!!!
Include your family and friends in your preparedness plans help calm their fears.
Many people will not digest information correctly and/or not take things seriously.
But if you talk to them and help them assemble their preparedness kits WITH SNAX, you will have helped increase their readiness for any disaster/emergency.
That’s cool. So don’t wait…
Now is the right time to discuss what to do BEFORE an emergency occurs.
“Don’t Wait. Communicate. Make Your Emergency Plan Today.”
Midstream in the third week of 2014 National Preparedness Month.
“Be Disaster Aware, Take Action to Prepare”
Are you drowning in these preparedness tips yet?
This week’s theme is consistent with FEMA’s National Preparedness Campaign: Build an Emergency Kit
#16: One Gallon of water per day / per person. Calculated for you = 48 bottles of water per person in your #Prepared2014 kit! #NatlPrep
So let’s do some simple calculations now.
1 bottled water = 8 oz of water
16 ounces of water = 1 pint of water
8 pints of water = 1 gallon of water
The recommendation is that every person has a gallon of water per day per person.
*****That means you need at least 16 bottles of water per person per day.*****
If you just whispered ERMAHGERD….then you should buy some water today.
This one is not negotiable…get it now. A case of bottled water is relatively cheap…like $3 for a case. Cheap. Do it.
Few tips once you get your water
Keep in mind, during an emergency, this is a very common sight.
So don’t let this happen to you.
Get your preparedness kit with water together today!
It’s the first Friday, the first week of 2014 National Preparedness Month!
“Be Disaster Aware, Take Action to Prepare”
Easy right? My goal is to provide actionable information so that you can better prepare you and your family.
This week’s theme is consistent with FEMA’s National Preparedness Campaign: Reconnect with Family After a Disaster.
#5: Use a small USB drive includes all key emergency documents & family communications plan #NatlPrep #Prepared2014
These ubiquitous USB drives (aka thumb drives, jump drives, memory sticks, etc…) are so easy to find. Best part? These things are cheap! You can easily find 16G for $2…which is WAY more storage that you’d ever need to store your documents in an emergency.
What to keep stored on this jump drive? Scanned or digital copies of your:
As you pack your one ounce USB drive, don’t forget to put it in an airtight freezer ziplock type bag. Your electronic equipment does not like getting wet.
The cost of these USB drives are so low, that it behooves you to use easy technology now to better leverage your position in a disaster. Because you won’t have time to copy/transfer these documents during a rapid evacuation, now is the time to be prepared.
Keeping good documentation for your family is one of the most important parts of reconnecting with family during and after a disaster.
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