- Allstate Catastrophe Information Center
Learn what you can do to prepare for, keep safe, and recover from catastrophic events. Guides outline how to safeguard your family and personal property from earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, and severe storms.
www.allstate.com/Catastrophe/PageRender.asp?Page=howprepare.htm
- Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness
Learn how to get informed about local emergency plans, how to identify hazards that affect your local area, and how to develop and maintain an emergency communications plan and disaster supplies kit. From FEMA.
www.fema.gov/areyouready
- ASPCA Disaster Preparedness
Learn how to prepare yourself and your pets for different types of disasters. Get the ASPCA's easy-to-use sticker to let people know that pets are inside your home.
www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=disaster
- AVMA Disaster Preparedness
Series of guides to help veterinarians, animal owners, and others interested in the well-being of animals prepare for animal safety in the event of a disaster. From the American Veterinary Medical Association.
www.avma.org/disaster
- Be Prepared - American Red Cross Preparedness Information
Includes a number of family and home preparedness guides addressing issues such as food and water supplies, power outages, helping children cope, animal safety, and financial preparations.
www.redcross.org/services/disaster/0,1082,0_500_,00.html
- CDC: Emergency Preparedness and Response
Includes information on bioterrorism, chemical agents, and natural disasters. Also features interim notification procedures for public health department leaders, news items, and more.
www.bt.cdc.gov
- Emergency Preparedness Guide
(PDF)
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Homeownership Alliance's emergency preparedness guide for homeowners.
www.cityoffrederick.com/emergency/docs/homeownership%20alliance%20emerg%20p...
- Family Readiness Kit: Preparing to Handle Disasters
Booklet from the Broward County Emergency Management Agency. Learn how to prepare your home and family for hurricanes, floods, forest fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, and human caused disasters.
www.broward.org/disaster/epi00905.htm
- Federal Alliance for Safe Home (FLASH)
Promoting life safety, property protection, and economic well-being by strengthening homes and safeguarding families from natural and manmade disasters. Learn how to protect your family in the case of an earthquake, flood, hurricane, thunderstorm, wildfire, or act of terrorism.
www.flash.org
- FEMA: Plan Ahead
Offers information on how to prepare for disasters. From the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
www.fema.gov/plan
- Get Ready, Get Set...
Disaster preparedness guide from FEMA for Kids. Teaches kids how to create a disaster supply kit, compose a family disaster plan, protect their home, and safe guard their pets.
www.fema.gov/kids/ready.htm
- How to Prepare for Disasters
Links to FEMA, NOAA, and state resources that instruct families on how to prepare for sever weather and other common disasters such as earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, tropical storms, and wildfires.
web.extension.uiuc.edu/disaster/prep.html
- HSUS Disaster Center
Humane Society of the United States provides disaster preparedness information for horses, livestock, and pets.
www.hsus.org/hsus_field/hsus_disaster_center
- Prepare.org
Multilanguage site created by the American Red Cross and other community-based organizations designed to help you and your family prepare for natural and human-caused disasters.
www.prepare.org
- Ready Kids
Help your family get prepared for the unexpected. Learn how to create an emergency supply kit and make a plan. Sharpen your preparedness skills though activities and games from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
www.ready.gov/kids
- Ready New York Household Preparedness Guide
Offers tips and information about a wide range of potentially hazardous situations New Yorkers may face. Read up on how to prepare for weather disasters, fires, earthquakes, carbon monoxide, building collapses, explosions, radiation, hazardous materials or chemical spills, and terrorism.
www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/ready/household_guide.shtml
- Ready.gov
Make a kit, make a plan, and be informed. From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
www.ready.gov
- ReallyReady.org
An emergency preparedness resource, from the Federation of American Scientists, designed to correct inaccuracies in the Ready.gov website.
www.fas.org/reallyready
- Severe Weather Awareness - NOAA
Know what actions to take to protect yourself, family, pets, and property against severe weather: thunderstorms, high winds, hail, lightning, tornadoes, and floods.
www.weather.gov/om/severeweather/index.shtml
- StormReady - NWS
The NWS StormReady Program addresses weather and disaster safety. Learn how to prepare your home and community for hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, flash floods, lightning, and extreme heat and cold.
www.weather.gov/stormready
- Untolerable.com
Survival discussion, including politics, privacy rights, wilderness survival, disaster preparedness. Includes a blog and forum.
www.untolerable.com
- US EPA - Natural Disasters Preparedness
Natural disasters and weather emergency preparedness from the United States Environmental Protection Agency contains advice on preparing for hurricanes, drought, extreme heat, wildfires, and more.
www.epa.gov/naturalevents
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