September is National Preparedness Month, So Let’s Get Ready!
There's a lot to think about when preparing for real-time emergencies, so let's take it one step at a time. Getting prepared is within your reach! All month long, we'll be offering a tip of the week to help better prepare our communities. If we all prepare, our community is safer during a disaster and more resilient afterward.
Week 2: Make a Plan to protect yourself and others
Whether you live in a house or an apartment building, are a senior, have young children, or have access and functional needs, you benefit from preparing for a disaster.
Know how you’ll contact one another and reconnect if separated. Establish a family meeting place that’s familiar and easy to find.
In a disaster, it’s often easier to call or text someone out of the area than to someone in your city. Identify a contact out of the area whom friends and family members can contact to pass on their safety information.
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