Learning + Tutorials
Emergency Shelter & Bedding
You and your family should make an evacuation plan so you know where to go if you needed to leave your home.
Typical Emergency Shelter options outside of the home:
Winter Storms
If Super Storm Sandy taught anyone on the east coast anything, it's that huge winter storms can happen and cause incredible destruction and inconvenience.
Power outages are commonplace and can take weeks to restore, which leaves people without heat, hot water and electricity.
You may not be able to drive due to snow, ice, and downed trees. That means limited access to food. Water pipes can freeze and explode without heat causing your home to become uninhabitable.
Use a Signal Mirror
Back in the late 1980s, an oral surgeon was in the middle of a two-week raft trip down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, when disaster struck.
He and two other men were on the bank, getting their 18-foot (5.4-meter) raft ready for a trip down the Crystal Rapids when it got caught in a wave, filled with water and ripped the line from their hands.
