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This week, Suze Orman reflected on 9/11 on her show and indicated that one of the financial legacies of 9/11 is to remember how important it is to have an updated will, living revocable trust and other key documents. Watch below for more from Suze. …
If you want to be prepared for an emergency, it certainly helps to know what type of emergency you are preparing for! While you might end up doing many of the same things regardless of the type of emergency, there are situations requiring unique survival …
As I wrote about last year, if you are on Facebook or Twitter, it is a really good idea to “Like” or “Follow” FEMA and your local emergency management association. You will be among the first to know about any pending emergency situations pertinent to your area and get helpful tips.
For example, FEMA has been encouraging people to get prepared for hurricanes since at least June and after Hurricane Irene, the Virginia Department of Emergency Management has been posting tips on everything from where to find emergency shelters to how to safely operate generators and chainsaws.
If you do only one emergency preparedness task this month, take one minute and do this one!
*If you don’t use Facebook or Twitter, there is an alternate low-tech solution you can use to get the same information. All Twitter accounts and public-oriented Facebook pages can be viewed in a standard Internet browser. So, you can just bookmark the Twitter feed or Facebook page you might need to keep up with and check in with it from time to time or during an emergency. Of course, you won’t be alerted when the page/feed is updated and you won’t be able to comment or tweet back to the writer of the message without creating a Facebook or Twitter account, but you can at least view any information that has been posted. You can try this out by visiting the links I provided above.
Summer flew by and now on the brink of fall we start a new Ruly theme! September’s organizing theme will address a topic we have discussed before but which bears repeating . . . emergency preparedness. This September is also National Preparedness Month. All this …
As if experiencing an earthquake and aftershocks for the last several days was not enough, Hurricane Irene has an uncertain course for our area. Here in the Fredericksburg area, we had a preview of the storm this afternoon with heavy rain and high winds. If …