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Category: Week 1

Today’s the day — the 2015 Prepare Kansas online challenge starts today!

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Welcome to the 2015 Prepare Kansas challenge. The program focuses on a few activities every week during September. For example: access alerts and warnings, develop communication plans, assemble or update supplies, and drill or practice an emergency response.

Challenge activities for September 1 – 6 are to:

  • complete a family or workplace communication plan to use in the event of a disaster and communicate the details with everyone who needs to know about it, and
  • purchase a bin, bag, or box and add 5 items to your emergency supply kit.

Throughout the week we will post helpful information about how to accomplish each of the challenge tasks.

Haven’t signed up for 2015 Prepare Kansas online challenge yet? There is still time! Take steps ahead of disaster and register by September 6 at http://bit.ly/1pwiiFE

Tracking your progress on the challenge tasks

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As you go through the month, you may find it helpful to track your progress on the challenge tasks. We’ve created a tracking document for you. We suggest you download the file, print it, and post it where you will see it often throughout the month. For example, on your refrigerator, near your computer monitor, or even in your bathroom.

Download the 2014 Prepare Kansas Tracking Sheet here.

 

Household inventories

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Audit by Miroslav Koša from The Noun Project

One of the challenge tasks for this week is to decide on the format for your household inventory and to inventory two rooms of your house. The weekend can be a good time to get started on this. If you aren’t sure how to begin, the fact sheet, “Get Financially Prepared: Take Steps Ahead of Disaster,” posted in the Learn More section at the right is a good place to start.

eXtension.org and the Insurance Information Institute are two additional sources of information. Both provide forms that can be used for your inventory. On eXtension.org scroll through the section that describes methods that can be used to complete household inventories and look for the link to the interactive household inventory form. Download the form, print it and hand write the inventory information, or fill out and save it on your computer.

Know Your Stuff® – Home Inventory, is the Insurance Information Institute’s free online home inventory software.

Regardless of the method you use, when it comes to storing your inventory:

  • Keep a working copy (paper or electronic) in a file at home.
  • Keep one copy of your household inventory away from the insured dwelling, such as in a safe-deposit box, with a trusted person, or stored online, so that it can be accessed from any computer.