Prepare Yourself and Family

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Below are Be 2 Weeks Ready and PrepLO resources to support your journey to self-resilience

Build Preparedness: the Be 2 Weeks Ready tool kit

The Be 2 Weeks Ready program is available through a comprehensive tool kit. The tool kit contains eight units that provide essential information and practical steps to ensure you are prepared for emergencies:

The tool kit also includes 30 engaging activities designed to enhance your readiness and understanding. Activities can be performed alone, or with a group lead by your local emergency prep team.

Do one unit at a time, at your own pace. By the end of the program, you’ll be confident and prepared when the next disaster strikes.

Kid Friendly Activities

Download entire toolkit here or individual units and activities information from PrepLO's Be 2 Weeks Ready page.

Explore Oregon OEM B2WR for alternative language versions and American Sign Language (ASL)

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Making a family plan is a great place to start. It's easy to do and in a disaster when communication is down it will be reassuring that you all know the plan.

Family Plan

A major earthquake in the northwest is going to have a catastrophic affect on our power grid. Do not expect to have electricity after a major earthquake. Learn how to generate electricity yourself especially if you rely on it for life-sustaining equipment.

Electricity

A major earthquake in the northwest is going to have major impacts on the financial market immediately following the earthquake as well as long term damage. Learn how you can take precautions to mitigate this risk.

Financial

This page offers a selection of emergency preparedness and responses resources, including ones for people with disabilities.

ADA

If you are too busy or just haven’t been able to get to this, Marilyn Bishop from Cascadia Quake Kits sells Two-Week Earthquake Kits based on Oregon/Washington State recommendations.

Cascadia Quake Kits

Food is essential to human survival will be a scarce resource after a major earthquake. Grocery stores will be quickly picked over and supplies will have a hard time making it into the region. There are many ways to store food for an emergency.

Food

Many foods in your refrigerator, freezer, pantry or food storage are going to require you to cook them. Learn about how to prepare a stove and the necessary fuel source for 30 days of cooking.

Heating and Cooking

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Water is essential to human survival and drinking contaminated water is a leading cause of death after a major disaster. Your homes water supply from the city is highly unlikely to survive a major earthquake. The general rule is to prepare for 1 gallon of water per person (or large pet) per day. Unfortunately length of time to prepare for varies greatly based on the severity of the earthquake or disaster.

Water

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Poor sanitation methods is a major cause of illnesses after a disaster like we would face after a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake. Learn how you should properly handle sanitation to reduce your risks.

Sanitation

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Learn about steps to take now to prepare your home to be a safe and reliable shelter after a major earthquake. There are some simple items to have on hand to repair a damaged home on your own.

Shelter

Prepare a backpack that you can grab at a moments notice that will provide you the basic necessities for 72 hours. This is sometime called a "go bag" or "bug out bag". Whatever it's called, having some essentials to quickly grab on the way out of your house is basic step to becoming "prepared".

72 Hr Packs

A major earthquake would not only overwhelm the local medical facilities, your access to it might be limited because of roads and bridges being down. Having medical supplies on hand might save your life. You should consider building a first aid kit for your home and possibly one for your neighborhood.

First Aid

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A major earthquake is going to destroy our communication network. Learn how to communicate with the local fire station as well as your neighbors with a simple 2-way radio.

Communication

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