Natural Disasters: Be Prepared - The best way to be prepared for hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and earthquakes is to protect yourself and your family. Being prepared is essential to acting quickly before and during a natural disaster. This site acts as a guide to help you prepare for unexpected disasters in advance.
Table of Contents
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) offers free brochures on preparing for natural disasters. Call 800-480-2520, or go to the FEMA website, www.fema.gov
- After a Flood: The First Steps and Repairing Your Flooded Home
- Earthquake Safety Checklist and Activities for Children
- Safety Tips for Hurricanes
- Hurricane Safety Tips (card)
- Survival in a Hurricane (wallet card)
- Tornado Safety Tips
- Disaster Preparedness for People With Disabilities
- Emergency Food and Water Supplies
- Your Family Disaster Plan and Your Family Disaster Supplies Kit
- What are the risks of a disaster
- Avalanches
- What to to do in case of an avalanche
- How to prepare against Wildfires
- How to Protect or Prepare for Landslides
- How to Prepare for Floods
- What to do During a Flood
- How to Cleanup and Restore or Recover from Flood Damage
- Preparing for a Storm Surges
- Types of severe storms
- Prepare for a Severe Storm
- How to Prepare and What to do in case of Blizzard
- How to Prepare and What to do in case of Hail Storm
- How to Prepare and What to do in case of Ice Storm
- How to Prepare and What to do in case of Lightning or Thunderstorm
- How to Prepare and What to do in case of Tornadoes
- How to Prepare and What to do in case of Earthquakes
- Before an earthquake : Verification list to prepare your household for an earthquake
- What to do in During an earthquake
- What to do in After an earthquake
- Prepare and Protect in case of Bomb threat
- Handling a Suspicious Package
- What to do in Case Chemical Spill
- How to Protect from Nuclear Disaster
- Preparing for Power Outage
- What to do During a power outage
- Home Power Generator
- How to evacuate house in winter
- What to do After power outage and electricity returns
- Making an emergency plan
- Buying a Basic Emergency Kit
- Emergency kit for the car
- What to do After an Emergency
- Who takes charge during an emergency?
- Is it safe to use candles inside in case of emergency?
- In case of emergency, what amount of water will I need, and how can I keep this water in a safe way?
- What stations should an emergency radio be able to pickup, i.e. AM/FM and SW or Weather Alert?
- Can I use my camping gas stove inside in case of emergency?
- In case of extended power outage, how can I heat my house in a safe way?
- In case of emergency, what can I do with my pets?
- What is a grab-and-go emergency kit?
- If I am at work when an emergency situation occurs, what do I need to do?
- Medication for emergency kit
- List non perishable foods for emergency kit
- Carefully preparing to survive 72 hours
- Family preparedness
- How to get Involved in Community preparedness
- How Emergency management works
- How to survive to an earthquake of important magnitude