A new year brings new opportunities, and there’s no better resolution than keeping yourself, your loved ones, and your community safe. This year, let’s make preparedness part of our everyday lives.
Simple Preparedness Resolutions:
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Make or update your emergency plan – Include communication methods, meeting places, and contacts.
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Build or refresh your emergency kit – Stock food, water, medications, flashlights, batteries, and important documents.
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Stay informed – Sign up for local alerts and keep up with trusted news and weather sources.
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Prepare your home – Check safety equipment, heating systems, and emergency supplies.
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Help your community – Share safety tips and check in on neighbors, especially during severe weather.
Preparedness is more than a resolution; it’s a habit that protects the people and places we care about most.
Winter storms create a higher risk of car accidents, hypothermia, frostbite, carbon monoxide poisoning and heart attacks from overexertion – know the risks.
Frostbite & Hypothermia
Limit your time outside and dress in loose, warm layers to avoid frostbite and hypothermia.
❄️ Frostbite cause loss of feeling and color around the face, fingers and toes.
❄️ Signs: Numbness, white or grayish-yellow skin, firm or waxy skin.
❄️ Actions: Go to a warm room. Soak in warm water (NOT hot). Use body heat to warm (NOT a fireplace, heating pad or other artificial heat source). Do NOT massage, rub or put pressure on areas with frostbite; you could further damage the tissue.
❄️ Hypothermia is an unusually low body temperature. A temperature below 95 degrees is an emergency.
❄️ Signs: Shivering, exhaustion, confusion, fumbling hands, memory loss, slurred speech or drowsiness.
❄️ Actions: Go to a warm room. Remove wet clothing and warm the center of the body first with dry layers of blankets or clothing.
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