2. When you are in an unfamiliar situation, like an emergency or disaster, it’s hard to know what to do. Bad information or not enough information can lead to making the wrong decisions. Having good information can help you make good decisions.

4. Thinking through what to do beforehand makes it easier to make good decisions in an emergency.
Think through what might happen and how it would affect you and your household
Talk about it to family members, people who count on you, and people that you count on
Plan to solve any problems that you find in advance

5. Make sure everyone in your family knows what to do when they hear emergency warnings
Get a NOAA Emergency Alert Radio
Make sure everyone in your household can communicate during a disaster

7. Find out how your community sends out warnings and emergency information
Outdoor warning sirens
Mass notification
Social media
Door-to-door notification

8. Warning sirens are only meant to warn people who are outdoors
You may not be able to hear them when you are inside, especially in bad weather
Find out if your community has sirens and when they will be used (and tested)
Even if people can hear the sirens indoors when they are tested, in bad weather wind can keep sounds from carrying and other noises, like rain and thunder, can drown them out.
Not every community has the same tornado siren procedures. Some sirens may be set off by the county 911 center, others might be set off by a local police or fire department. Some communities might have a siren that goes off all through a tornado warning, some communities might just sound a siren at the beginning and then have an all clear siren blast at the end.
Sirens might not just be for tornado warnings. Sirens could also be used for dam break warnings if they are near dams, or for evacuation warnings if they are near nuclear power plants or other dangerous sites.

9. Make sure everyone in your family knows what to do when sirens sound
Take cover: Go into the nearest shelter
Tune in: Check TV, radio or the internet for more information (never call 911 to find out what is going on in an emergency)

10. Many communities use systems that send out phone calls, text messages or emails in an emergency
Find out what your community uses and if you have to sign up in order to be included
Make sure everyone in your family can get the messages and knows what to do

11. If you use assistive technology to communicate, make sure you can receive the messages your community sends out
If you have questions, contact your local emergency manager

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13. Weather information and warnings for your location
Other emergency alerts
Can turn themselves on to notify you when there is a warning
Adaptors are available to provide flashing light or vibration alerts

14. Most cell phone providers automatically send you text alerts when there is a weather warning in your area
Smart phone apps can also let you know when a warning is issued

16. Live emergency broadcasts may not be close captioned
Information that is shown on screen might not be spoken aloud or described
Automated voices in emergency messages can be hard to understand
Words moving across the screen may move very quickly
Screen and text color can be hard to read

17. If you think you may have trouble understanding emergency instructions:
Look for smart phone apps and other tools that can make understanding easier
Identify a friend or family member who you can call in an emergency for help interpreting emergency instructions
Keep a pad of paper ready to write down emergency instructions

18. Getting emergency information Making response easier
Emergency alert apps
Making response easier
Apps that help remember what steps to take
Emergency planning apps
Communicating with others
Language translation apps
“Emergency button” apps to quickly send messages to people you choose

19. Information Seeking
Looking for more information is a natural thing to do in a disaster, but it takes time that you may not have
Many disasters develop very quickly
Opportunities to act safely may not be available as time goes by
Educate yourself now about what could happen in your community so you can act quickly when you need to
Disasters like flashfloods, earthquakes, and wildfires can happen very quickly. These “short-fuse” events don’t leave time for information seeking. You must act quickly. Terrorism is another short-fuse event. Research shows that there were people who could have evacuated the World Trade Centers on 9/11, but delayed to seek more information about what was going on and were killed.

21. When the power goes out, you may lose other important resources
Make a plan to make sure you will have what you need in a power outage
Find out how to keep yourself and your family safe

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