As California’s Mother of the Year, I’ve designed a simple disaster plan for families. Check out the Micro-Community Disaster Plan with tips, guidelines, and forms – all laid out for you to use.
Here is the Micro-Community Disaster Plan: https://americanmotherscalifornia.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Micro-Community-Disaster-Plan-and-Information-Packet.pdf
Create your own Micro Community that includes about 6-12 households. Talk to your neighbors to designate your Micro Community, and then use the “Micro-Community” form to fill in their names, contact info, and vital information about non-ambulatory people, pets, and livestock.
Then select a Micro-Community leader to represent the group. Ideally, this would be someone who is home a lot and capable of calling, texting, or emailing their community in the case of an emergency. This leader should be able to walk to each of the houses in their community in 30-45 minutes.
Send a copy of your Micro Community to your local fire department. Knowing that the fire department and your Micro-Community leader has this information will be comforting for all of your neighbors. Your Micro-Community leader will communicate with the fire department and keep you informed of evacuation orders and other life-saving information.
Share this with your neighbors, family, and friends. My hope is to get every family to join a Micro Community to prepare for disasters so everyone can work efficiently to mitigate problems. I’ll be blogging about setting up phone trees, Go-Bags, and more in the weeks ahead!