What to Do When the Water Is Unsafe: Boil Water Advisories Explained
What a boil water advisory means, how to boil and disinfect water the CDC way, which household tasks need safe water, and how to flush your plumbing once the advisory is lifted.
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Extreme Heat Safety: How to Stay Cool During a Heat Wave and Outage
How to prepare for extreme heat, keep your home cooler, recognize heat exhaustion and heat stroke, and stay safe if the power fails during a heat wave, based on CDC, NWS and Ready.gov guidance.
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Emergency Documents: What to Gather and How to Protect Them
A practical guide to gathering, copying and protecting identification, financial, insurance and medical records so you can recover faster after a disaster.
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Flood Safety: How to Prepare and Why You Never Drive Through Water
Flood safety based on Ready.gov guidance: know your risk, buy flood insurance early, protect your home, and stay out of flood water in a car or on foot.
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Winter Storm Preparedness for Your Home and Your Car
How to prepare your home and car for a winter storm: know the alert terms, keep heat and light safe, build a car kit, and recognize hypothermia and frostbite.
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Earthquake Preparedness: What to Do Before, During and After
How to prepare for an earthquake, what to do when the shaking starts (drop, cover and hold on), and how to stay safe in the hours and days afterward.
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Hurricane Preparedness Checklist: Before, During and After
A practical hurricane checklist built on Ready.gov guidance: know your zone, plan, protect your home, pack supplies, and stay safe during and after the storm.
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Tornado Safety: How to Prepare Your Home and Your Family
How to prepare for tornadoes: watches versus warnings, where to shelter, what to do in cars and mobile homes, and how to recover.
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Shelter in Place: What It Means and How to Do It
What shelter in place means, when officials tell you to do it, and how to prepare a room, seal it and stay informed.
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How to Make a Family Emergency Communication Plan
A step-by-step way to build a family communication plan: contacts, meeting places, out-of-town contacts and what to do when phones fail.
