1. Decide to be Prepared
  2. Identify Real Threats &
    Hazards
  3. Improve Your Disaster
    Personality
  4. Complete Your Emergency Communications Plan
  5. Complete Your Emergency
    Contact Cards
  6. Assign Emergency
    Responsibilities
  7. Develop a House Fire
    Evacuation Plan
  8. Put an Emergency Supply
    Kit in Every Vehicle
  9. Protect Valuable Papers
    and Records
  10. Establish a Neighborhood
    Support Network
  11. Identify Storage Spaces for Emergency Supplies
  12. Collect & Store Emergency
    Supplies
  13. Prepare a Disaster
    Recovery Plan
  14. Create a Family
    Indentification File
  15. Establish a Solid
    Emergency Financial
    Plan
  16. Train to Survive
Step 3.
Improve Your "Disaster Personality"

It is important that you expect to survive. To do so you must anticipate the unexpected and prepare your mind and body.

  • Attitude – Believe that you can influence events and avoid the victimization trap.
  • Knowledge – Be correctly informed to sharpen your mind in the event of an emergency.
  • Anxiety control – Help your brain choose the right course of action by using coping devices, such as controlled rhythmic breathing.
  • Body weight – Take it seriously. When it’s time to move quickly, your chances for survival are improved.
  • Training – Train your brain and your muscles now and they will perform better under stress.

(Excerpted and edited from “How to Survive a Disaster” by Amanda Ripley, TIME Magazine, May 29, 2008)

Make these 5 survival tips part of your preparedness plan!

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