Last night at the Phyllis B. presentation in our ward I gave prizes of little loaves of homemade whole wheat bread to the women who achieved their goals from last month's "Hurricane Preparedness" lesson. (Those who were absent will get their prizes on Sunday.)
J.M.- Bought an inverter
K.B.- Ordered a wheat grinder.
K.A. Ordered food.
N.H. and H.C. and A.D. Stored more water.
L.D. Bought an inverter and copied her important documents and got phone numbers off her cell phone.
S.D. Got 72 hour kits and stored more water.
GOOD JOB! YOU ALL DID GREAT!
Now, here is your next opportunity to win a prize.
Phyllis B. taught us about the Red Cross's website for locating family members after a disaster. The SafeAndWell project will enable people in a disaster to list themselves, and will enable their family and friends to find them.
Phyllis is giving 3 presentations in the area this weekend, and wants her students to practice listing themselves on the site, and practice searching for people on the site. The Triangle Red Cross set up a special temporary test site for her students to practice using. It will be up ONLY THREE DAYS. It will be deleted after Monday Sept. 13. So you only have until then to use it and teach your family how to use it.
Here is how to win your prize (I'm only giving prizes to Relief Society members in my ward. Sorry to everyone else.)
Number One.
Pretend you are in a disaster. Find the redcross.org website. (You'll have to find it yourself, I'm not giving you the link.)
At the top of the page, find "Getting Assistance" then "contact family members" then "List yourself as safe and well" then "Read More".
Yes, that sounds like a lot. But thats how you can get to the SafeandWell website if you are in a disaster and don't have the link.
Number Two. Here is another way to find it. :
Find the redcross.org website.
At the bottom of the page, find "How to Get Help" then "Safe and Well" then "List Yourself or Search Registrations".
That is another way to get to the SafeAndWell website.
Now that you know you can find it even if you are in a disaster and don't have the link, I will give you the link:
http://www.redcross.org/safeandwell.
Go there, and search for me. (You'll need to get my home address or phone number off our ward list). If you find me, you will see my message. Email me and tell me what my message says, and I will bring you a delicious prize!
You will learn a lot more about the site if you go ahead and list yourself. No one can see your information unless they search for you with your accurate address or phone number (and it will all be deleted in three days anyway). When you start to list yourself, you have to fill out "About Me", and the first thing to choose is "Disaster Event". The "disaster" you can practice on is called "Triangle Area Exercise". After you list yourself, ask your husband, or your sister in California to see if they can find you on the site.
This is a great resource for large disasters like Katrina, because the displaced people in a situation like that are frantic to locate their families. If you practice doing it now (and tell your family members in other states about it now), then it will be a resource for you when you need it.
Phyllis said that when a big hurricane is coming our way, the site will open up for us to list ourselves for real. On an everyday basis, you can't list yourself. (Only when a disaster happens or is about to happen.) If you look at the disaster list for today, they only have "California Gas Fire", "Colorado Wildfires" and "Texas Floods", along with our little "Triangle Area Exercise".
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