• Behavioral Issues
• Child Care
• Cleaning Up After a Storm
• Communication
• Deciding To Stay Or Go
• Evacuation Shelters
• First Aid & Medical
• Flood Center
• Food and Water
• Help the Relief Effort
• Insurance Center
• Lighting & Power
• Pet and Animal Care
• Preparing Your Home
• Special Needs
• Storms Explained

Communication

Your family may not be together when disaster strikes. One of the keys to properly preparing for any emergency (and staying calm during the emergency) is to have a Family Communications Plan. Planning how you will contact one another and reviewing what you will do in different situations is essential. Discover what a good communications plan includes and how your family, your business, and other facilities that you and your family use, can create disaster plans and learn to execute them well.

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Before the Storm

Communication Tools to Purchase

• The NOAA Weather Radio: An Invaluable Communications Tool
• Rabbit Ears for the 2008 Hurricane Season
• Purchasing Additional Phones and Preparing Communications for a Hurricane

Disaster Plans and More

• Your Family Disaster Plan
• Your Business Disaster Plan: Preparing for the Storm
• Your Child Care Facility's Disaster Plan
• Your School's Disaster Plan
• Disaster Plans for Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities
• Information for Teachers and Parents: Classrooms Can Help Build Awareness for Disaster Communications Plans
• Creating Emergency Contacts

During the Storm

• Important Numbers and Methods of Getting Information

After the Storm

• Your Business Disaster Plan: Getting Back to Business
• After a Disaster: Communications and Communicating
• After a Disaster: Communicating with Children