The American Red Cross recommends storing this amount of water for each person in your family per day
What is One Gallon?
That assumes about half a gallon for drinking and another half-gallon to meet sanitation and food preparation needs.
If you are in this type of structure during a tornado, the safest thing to do is get out immediately and go to the lowest floor of a sturdy, nearby building or a storm shelter.
What is a trailer or mobile home?
Basic services such as electricity, gas, water, sewage treatment and telephones may be cut off for days or even a week, or longer. This item should be kept in the event those services are out.
What is a disaster supply kit?
This natural disaster occurs when heavy or steady rain soaks the ground over several hours or days
What is a flood?
If you have canned food in your Emergency Kit, you will want to also have one of these
What is a Can Opener?
This natural disaster can range from moderate cold winds and low temperatures to heavy snowfall, freezing rain, and icy roads.
What is a Winter Storm?
Your family may not be together when a disaster strikes. It is important to write and have this in advance.
What is an Emergency Preparedness Plan or a Family Communications Plan? (Both are correct)
This natural disaster causes changes in landscape such as patterns of storm-water drainage on slopes (especially the places where runoff water converges), land movement, or progressively leaning trees are all signs of this natural disaster potentially occurring.
What is a landslide?
If you lose water service to your home, this is where you can find 30-80 gallons of water stored in an average home
What is a hot water heater?
The number of these natural disasters in Oregon in 2017 was slightly above average at 2,042. About half of these disasters occurred on land protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry.
What is a Wildfire?
Statewide, a total of 664,842 acres burned
Businesses should consider having this type of plan in place to ensure operations continue following a disaster.
What is a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) or a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)?
Oregon is one of the most prone areas in the continental United States for these natural disasters?
What is an Earthquake?
Over the years, Oregon has had a series of earthquakes, large and small. Small (less than 3.0 magnitude) occur often although may not be felt.