Personal emergency preparedness is comprised of anticipation, awareness, and planning. It is made up of monitoring of a possible disaster situation via television, electronic information, District communication, and State communication.
Personal emergency preparedness is comprised of each household obtaining the necessary items to survive the hardships that a disaster imposes on an individual and family.
Below is a list of the basic items necessary to be prepared for and survive an emergency:
- Sign up for Travis County MUD 10 Emergency Notifications
- Locate your shut off valve outside
- Place a marker near your shut off valve (so you can find it later, if chance of snow)
- Purchase bottled for drinking and fill up your bathtubs flushing toilets and hand washing dishes
- Gather pitchers or buckets to help carry water for flushing and/or hand washing dishes
- Purchase non‐perishable food (can opener to open cans)
- Purchase firewood for real wood fire places
- Wrap outdoor pipes; remove garden hoses from faucets
- Turn off irrigation systems
- Turn off auto pool filling systems
- Purchase a battery or crank operated radio
- Purchase flashlights and battery operated lighting
- Purchase batteries for flashlights and radios
- Charge your cell phones, back up battery packs for cell phones and car charger for cell phones
- Purchase a fire extinguisher
- Gas up all vehicles (always a gas shortage after a disaster)
- Consider a generator, fuel, plenty of outdoor power cords, surge protector and learn how to use the generator well before a disaster
- Purchase electric space heaters
- Warm clothing
- Blankets
- Toiletries
- First aid kit
- Keep emergency cash on hand