Financial Preparedness : https://www.ready.gov/financial-prepared
INSURANCE -review existing policies and make sure all types of insurance are current and up to date.
INSTALL AND CHECK ALARMS: Smoke, carbon monoxide, and natural gas on every level of your home and close to bedrooms. Know your alerts and warnings. Download the FEMA app to stay informed.
EVACUATION PLANS - mentioned in a previous episode.
FAMILY COMMUNICATIONS : Your family might not be together when disaster strikes, so plan where you will meet and how you will contact each other. Especially when cel phones aren’t working. Pick a friend or relative who live out of stat fo household members to notify they are safe and to relay messages. A physical card in a wallet can contain: Family name and contact number, out of state contact name and phone, neighbored meeting place and the meeting pace telephone
ESCAPE ROUTES - 1.For fire in your home 2. to get to your emergency gathering place 3. To get to your out of state contact.
INSURANCE AND VITAL RECORDS : FEMA offers a 22 page fillable PDF. Fill it out and store it in a password protected file on your phone, in the cloud, physically printed in a waterproof container -AND on a flash drive that in a waterproof container. Update it yearly.
* LIST OF DOCS
* Personal ID-
* Cash and coins
* Credit cards
* Extra set of keys and car keys
* Copies of: birh certificates
* Marriage certificate
* Driver’s license
* Social security cards
* Passports
* Wills
* Deeds
* Inventory of household goods
* Insurance papers (health, life, disability, home, car, renters, liability)
* Immunization records
* Bank and credit card account numbers
* Stocks and bonds
* Medical records
* Prescription list
* Medical consent form for dependents
* Emergency contact list and phone numbers, including your doctor
* Map of the area and phone numbers of places you could go AND
* THE EMERGENCY FINANCIAL FIRST AID KIT : FEMA offers a filable PDF where you can enter your financial info all in one place. You can then add a copy of this to the above documents. You can also place all this onto a flash drive, to the cloud, on a secure app on your phone. This is especially helpful for when you travel overseas because if you lose a credit card, you’ll have the info in one simple place you can go to, and get the help you need to cancel and replace cards.
HOUSEHOLD INVENTORY
* List of contents of household; include se
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