Individual & Family Preparedness

Make a Plan

The first step is to sit down with your family to create a plan specific to the needs of you and your family. This plan can be a conversation or it can be written down. This emergency plan should include information on local hazards that may affect you, a communications plan that includes both local contacts and contacts out of the area, a shelter-in-place location in your home, and supplies to put in your emergency supply kit such as food, medicine, and other necessary items.

Practice your plan! Once the plan is formulated, the plan must be understood by everyone in the household and practiced to ensure that everyone knows what to do. A plan is only good if everyone knows how to do it in an emergency situation.  

Visit Texasready.gov; Ready.gov; Ready.gov/Kids; Weather.gov and FEMA.gov for resources on the following:

• Making an Emergency Plan
• Building a Disaster Kit
• Fact Sheets
• Emergency Preparedness Activity Books
• Radio Public Service Announcements
• Coping with Disasters
• Weather Related Resources

Stay Informed

Hazards and threats that may affect you can change so be sure to stay informed. Go over your emergency plan to ensure that you and everyone in your family remember what to do. Practice your entire plan and evaluate how it went. 

Stay current on local emergency alerts by registering for ADDISON ALERT, the mass notification system that the Town of Addison uses to communicate with residents.