Contingency Planning
Family Emergency Preparedness
FLOODING WILDFIRES WINTER STORMS
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PANDEMIC
TORNADOS
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All photographs courtesy of FEMA, http://www.fema.gov/about/photolibrary.shtm Exceptions noted
One Possible Scenario
The 911 line has been busy for the past hour, and your cell phone won‟t connect to the network. No pizza delivery tonight. Before power went out, you learned that the bridge had been closed due to expected flooding. With the shorter route unavailable, you are reluctant to use the remaining quarter tank of gas in your car driving the long way around in search of a gas station that is still open. So now you‟re stuck at home, riding out a storm that‟s supposed to last for several more days. You really needed to buy groceries over the weekend but spent most of Saturday and Sunday at work and didn‟t get around to it. You have been living on fast food for the past week, and your cupboards are essentially bare. The few items left in your refrigerator are either spoiling or thawing. Tonight you will be dining by candlelight on a frigid, three-month-old bean and beef burrito that you will wash down with half a can of a flat diet soft drink. Breakfast is still a question mark, since it‟s a toss-up between dry oatmeal straight out of the packet, or instant breakfast dissolved in water instead of milk. For you, either option is bearable, but you know the kids are going to complain. Sound far-fetched? It‟s not; it happens to hundreds, if not thousands, of people every year. In 1969, Hurricane Camille killed an estimated 255 people. But
FLOODING WILDFIRES WINTER STORMS
http://www.netstrategies.com/blog/wpcontent/uploads/2010/03/4346823749_21f850483b_o.jpg
http://airboats4sar.com/news/media /blogs/News/evac1.jpg
HURRICANES http://www.co.benton.or.us/sheriff/ems/images/20 03CAHwy18Fire_001.jpg
PANDEMIC
TORNADOS
http://www.grangermedical.com/images/cdch1n1-8.jpg
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/03/large_alaba ma%20tornado.jpg
http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~andrew/infodevi ce_2008/students/cyclone/
All photographs courtesy of FEMA, http://www.fema.gov/about/photolibrary.shtm Exceptions noted
One Possible Scenario
The 911 line has been busy for the past hour, and your cell phone won‟t connect to the network. No pizza delivery tonight. Before power went out, you learned that the bridge had been closed due to expected flooding. With the shorter route unavailable, you are reluctant to use the remaining quarter tank of gas in your car driving the long way around in search of a gas station that is still open. So now you‟re stuck at home, riding out a storm that‟s supposed to last for several more days. You really needed to buy groceries over the weekend but spent most of Saturday and Sunday at work and didn‟t get around to it. You have been living on fast food for the past week, and your cupboards are essentially bare. The few items left in your refrigerator are either spoiling or thawing. Tonight you will be dining by candlelight on a frigid, three-month-old bean and beef burrito that you will wash down with half a can of a flat diet soft drink. Breakfast is still a question mark, since it‟s a toss-up between dry oatmeal straight out of the packet, or instant breakfast dissolved in water instead of milk. For you, either option is bearable, but you know the kids are going to complain. Sound far-fetched? It‟s not; it happens to hundreds, if not thousands, of people every year. In 1969, Hurricane Camille killed an estimated 255 people. But