How to Prepare Your Community for a Disaster

Hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes and floods strike communities every year, injuring and displacing thousands. A plan and an emergency kit are important, but they only go so far. Ideally, your whole community should be ready, and if you don’t think it is, here’s how you can help make sure.

Organizing your neighbors with a plan in case the worst happens is no simple feat. It’s difficult enough for most of us to plan for our own families, much less a dozen in our building or on our block. So how do you do it?

Read more at the New York Times.

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