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Home Tips > Tips By Category > Tips you can implement daily The following is a list of things to do Before A Disaster:
Equip a basement room as your disaster shelter, unless your area is prone to flooding or you do not have a basement, in which case a small, inner room on the ground floor would be best. If you live in a high-rise complex, identify an escape route.
Be sure that each child knows his full name, address, names of parents, where parents are employed or where they can be reached in an emergency, home telephone number, and any special medical information.
Make inexpensive bracelets that contain pertinent information to put on younger children when dangerous conditions exist.
Make a simple and clear plan for escape from the house and practice the escape until everyone is familiar with it. Have alternative plan.
Establish a meeting place in case family members are separated.
Be sure that everyone in the family knows how to use basic equipment in the shelter area.
Take photos of the contents of every room. Include all items of value, as well as the basic furnishing of the house.
Gather all important papers and store them in a fireproof and/ or waterproof container. Include insurance policies, contracts, marriage certificates, computer disks, important recordings, birth and death certificates, deeds, titles to vehicles and other property, certificates of deposit, stocks and bonds, and any other potentially negotiable or valuable documents.
Be certain of your insurance coverage, life, hospitalization, house and property, and vehicles. Call your agent and get a clarification on all major points.
Store valuable jewelry, mementos, and other small items that are infrequently used in the safe box.
Use your antiques, if possible. You may not deduct losses related to antiques, no matter how valuable, on your income tax return, if the antiques are not used.
Have natural resources such as timber, waterways, ponds, or garden areas appraised. FEMA and its ancillaries will not permit certain deductions for losses unless a formal appraisal of the property had been made prior to the disaster.
Call your local Red Cross chapter, Salvation Army, and other agencies to learn of their emergency plans for disasters. Learn where shelters are located and what provisions would be made for food, shelter, clothing, etc.
Call schools to learn emergency plans.
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