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National Preparedness Month is an opportunity each year to highlight and promote the importance of family and community disaster planning.

It’s a reminder to know what disasters and hazards could affect your area, how to get emergency alerts and where to go if you and your family needs to evacuate.

Preparedness begins with a plan
Though we all hope disaster won’t strike, a plan ensures we can respond and recover for our employees and customers. It’s important for us to have plans in place at work. It’s just as important to have a plan at home for you and your family.

Ready.gov provides information to help create a plan specific to your needs and the types of disasters that could impact your area.

It will help you think through how your family will reconnect if you’re separated when disaster strikes.

It will help you with shelter, evacuation and communications plans and provide suggestions for what to put in your emergency preparedness kit.

Another great resource is the American Red Cross. They make it easy to find what common emergencies and natural disasters occur where you live and help you complete three easy steps to prepare:

1. Get a kit.
2. Make a plan.
3. Be informed.

For additional help with your emergency kit, check out this video from our August PowerHouse Challenge. Pete and Megan walk you through how to create a kit for storms and power outages.

A little bit of planning goes a long way. Take a few minutes to check out helpful resources and plan with your family.