Hurricane season is fast approaching and it is never too early to get ready.  The Internet has many great resources to help you prepare your family for any disaster.  Simply enter “Family Disaster Plan” into any search engine and literally millions of pages across the Internet are available for your reading pleasure.  So, here in the United States, what are some of the best sites to use to help prepare your family for hurricanes, flooding, hospitalization, and other disasters?

www.ready.gov

Ready.gov is my favorite resource.  This is the national campaign of the United States and provides well laid out resources for citizens.  Ready America is your resource for family disaster planning.  You can create an electronic plan or download forms through the Ready America – Make  A Plan area of the web site.  There are additional resources for military families, older americans, people with diabetes, and pet owners.

www.redcross.org

The American Red Cross is also an excellent source of information to prepare your family for disaster situations.  Once at the site, click “Preparing and Getting Trained” at the top of the page.  Then click “Prepare – Home and Family” in the left navigation menu.  Here you will find additional information on the same resources found at Ready.Gov.  You’ll also find “Preparedness Fast Facts” on many topics such as tornados, pandemic flu, thunderstorms, wildfires and eighteen other topics.

www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/pdf/family_disaster_plan.pdf

The National Hurricane Center’s Family Disater Plan information sheet is an excellent high-level planning tool.  It provides information on all types of disasters and how to begin developing your family plan.

With these three resources alone, an effective family disaster plan can be compiled.  Each of these three resources also stress the need to develop a disaster kit which I also highly recommend for your home and your car.  More about these kits in a later blog.  Finally, I highly recommend an emergency alert disaster radio. 

It is vitally important to fully document your family disaster plan.  The safety of your family is priceless.  Take steps to prepare by having your plan documented today.

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