Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year. The task for July is to make sure you have a plan to get back together again If you are apart from your family when disaster strikes.

Learn exactly when and how to plant for fall and winter in Bainbridge Prepares’ Veg Club video. Then turn to our Winter Crop Resource Page,

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year.

Our food banks face a perfect storm in which loss of individual food assistance programs will drive more people to food banks, while cuts to federal inputs will drastically lower the banks’ ability to feed people. But there is something you can do to help.

Instead of filing your taxes at the last minute this year, why not attend the second session of the new Emergency Preparedness series at the library on April 15? The session will focus on Wildfire Prep and Mitigation. The presenter is Bainbridge Island Fire Department Chief Jared Moravec.

Ann Cook is one of the Team Leads of our Map Your Neighborhood team. Listen to her talk about how important BP and its efforts are:

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year.

If you’re participating in our Prepare in a Year program, you know that the March activity is to make a communications plan. You know that a good communications plan includes a strategy and tools for communicating, access to emergency alerts, and a way to keep your devices charged.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year.

Storing a large supply of food can be challenging. It requires spending money, making decisions, anticipating food needs, checking for expiration, and restocking. It’s not a one-and-done event.

We should all be worried as climate change results in more extreme weather patterns and events. But worrying in a vacuum does nothing. Preparing, on the other hand, can help mitigate effects, improve resilience, speed up recovery, and facilitate better sleep.

The Washington Emergency Management Division recently completed a Tsunami Maritime Response and Mitigation Strategy for the City of Bainbridge Island’s Eagle Harbor. This report is the first to take a look at potential impacts from an earthquake on the nearby Seattle Fault.

Radon is sneaky. It’s odorless and colorless. It results from the decay of uranium in rocks and soil, so you’re most likely to find it lurking in basements and crawl spaces. You probably didn’t even know that January is National Radon Action Month. That’s just how under the radar radon is.

Preparing for emergencies is not about fear. To the contrary, it’s a reflection of a healthy attitude of resilience. When you prepare for emergencies, you show your children, family, friends, and neighbors that you’re not in denial and that, reassuringly, you are taking care of things.

The December 5 earthquake in Northern California and resulting quake and tsunami warnings, combined with a recent change in COBI’s Nixle alert procedures, have raised some questions from local residents about alerts. Hopefully this explainer will provide some clarity.

December is a good time to review everything you’ve done on this 12-month journey to prepare—and feel good about all that hard work. It’s also the time to make sure you haven’t missed anything. Examine any possible hazards: water heater, furniture and appliances, toxic chemicals, and exterior hazards.

This fall, the National Weather Service warned city emergency managers across the region, including Bainbridge City Emergency Coordinator Anne LeSage, that we should be expecting a colder, wetter winter. That experience may be starting today.

The City of Bainbridge Island’s emergency and news alert system, Everbridge Nixle, went through a change at the end of October. The City had been using Nixle to let people know about major events and scheduled road work as well as emergencies.

The task for November is to prepare for sheltering in place. Sheltering in place is not something we have much reason to do in western Washington. But when we do, it is of utmost importance to do it right. Almost always, the occasion will be a chemical, biological, or radiological event.