County emergency manager: write a family plan and keep low-tech backups
Summary
Scott Scribe told 'Tapped In' that households should write simple evacuation and communication plans, keep printed contact lists and use small daily steps to build preparedness rather than attempting everything at once.
Scott Scribe advised listeners to pair a written family plan with an emergency kit so everyone knows meeting places and communication steps when phones are unavailable. "If we know how we're gonna communicate, you know, no one ever thought all everything would go down," Scribe said, underlining the importance of defined primary and secondary meeting points for families.
Scribe and the hosts warned that many people rely solely on apps and phone contacts; he recommended keeping a written "communications card" with family contacts in a wallet and having multiple evacuation destinations (for example, a primary meeting place and a secondary location such as a relative's home). He suggested answering one preparedness question per day to make building a plan manageable.
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