Word of the Week – Shelter

One of three things will happen after a natural disaster.

A: You will shelter at home, not to be confused with sheltering in place

B: You live in a mandatory evacuation zone. And will evacuate to a safe place to take shelter.

C: You will shelter at home until forced to leave because it is no longer safe to stay there.

In - Home

Public Shelters

Hotels/Motels

Friends and Family

Pets

P.S. For more information on SHELTERING get your copy of FAMILY URBAN DISASTER PLANNING here.

Tip of the Day – Insurance Audit

Disaster financial stability.

All locations are different. Call your home/business insurance agent for a comprehensive disaster insurance audit.

Till next time

“Be Safe”

P.S. Protect yourself and loved ones from the number one preventable disaster in the country, house fires. Take the Don’t Burn Your House Down course today and rest assured your loved ones are safe.

To say that Paul Toth has been around the block a few times would be an understatement. But if there is one thread that has always run through his life experience is his passion for Addressing Needs and Problem Solving Through Communications.

In our interview, we discuss:

1.   Disaster Communications Overview

2.     Tools and Training

3.     Local Resources

Till next time

“Be Safe”

During a natural disaster or emergency, one of three things will happen.

Number one, you will be able to shelter in your home, ride out the event until its conclusion, and then come out to determine damages and recovery needs.

Number two, you will need to evacuate immediately because your home is not safe due to the nature of the emergency or disaster.

Number three, you will be sheltering at home and find that your home is no longer safe, and you must evacuate immediately.

Till next time

"Be Safe"

Act now. Sign up for the Don't Burn Your House Down online course for detailed information on evacuating your house.

I today we are halfway through the first month of the year 2022, that’s right we are halfway through January 2022 and my mission right at the moment is to carry on with house fire safety.

House fire safety, the number one preventable disaster that strikes the most people in the United States and kills more people than all natural disasters combined.

Now I do know based on research information we can find readily and freely available that the number one disaster that affects more people are house fires.

That’s right house fires. Did you know that more people die every year by house fires than all natural disasters combined?

Now somewhere around here there’s a link to the don’t burn your house down training that will walk you through a process to go over with your family.

You can identify the things that need to be done, develop and build an evacuation plan for your house and put it in action. You can do it all within a week engage everybody in the household with the subject and the project because they’re all going to be affected by it and you’ll be comfortable and confident knowing that you’ve done the best thing you can to prevent a house fire and to protect your loved ones in their sleep from a fire.

Till next time

Be Safe

This conversation with Dr. Joe Alton and Nurse Amy Alton was released in May 2021, as part of the Conversations On Family Urban Disaster Planning summit.

Joe Alton, MD, is a Life Fellow of the American College of OB/GYN and retired Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Amy Alton, ARNP, CNM is an advanced registered nurse practitioner and certified nurse midwife.

In our interview, we discuss:

1.   Basics of Medical Preparedness

2.     Where to get your training

3.     Tools & Supplies

Till next time be safe.

Word of the Week - Communication

noun: communication; plural noun: communications

1. the imparting or exchanging of information or news.

2. means of sending or receiving information, such as phone lines or computers.

"Satellite communications"

Who do you need to communicate with?

Why do you need to communicate with them?

How will you communicate?

Till next time, be safe.

Tip of the Day is Redundancy. Have a back up plan, tool, route, or person.

This conversation with Angela van den Ham was released in May 2021, as part of the Conversations On Family Urban Disaster Planning summit.

Angels is the owner of Dunedin Happy Tails Professional Dog & Cat Grooming.

Angela began showing, grooming and training dogs 30+ years ago.

Her passion, and love for her furry friends is evident as soon as you walk through the doors of her shop.

I know I saw it first hand. I walked into her shop on a whim to see if I could get a question answered. “Do you know of anyone I can speak to about protecting our pets during emergencies or disasters? Angela lit up like a rocket ship. Her genuine care and love for our furry friends was evident for all to see. I knew I had my answer.

Angels also confirmed her personal high standards when she took the Angels & Master's Bikini Pro Qualified title in the 2020 INBA Elite Physique Championships.

In our interview, we discuss:

1.    Preparing Your Pet

2.     Safe Evacuation

3.     Pet Friendly Shelters

Word of the Week - Rallying

Rally

to muster for a common purpose

to come together again to renew an effort

a mustering of scattered forces to renew an effort

- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rally

Reassemble – regroup - re-form – reunite – come together

The reason this is important is during an emergency or disaster your family might not all be in the same place at the same time.

Till next time, be safe.