Tips for Emergency Planning:

Notification:
(1) A weather radio with the “Public Alert” logo. It turns on automatically.
(2) a cell phone service that sends text messages  about emergencies.
(3) Interconnected smoke alarms in your home–one in every bedroom, and one on every floor. If you are hard-of-hearing you won’t hear these, so install a low-pitched sounding device.

Escape:
(1) Establish two ways out of every room. As a last resort, a collapsable escape ladder for upstairs rooms.
(2) Keep a back pack by your bed with these items: crowbar, work gloves, clothes including shoes, flashlight, water bottle, small first aid kit, old hearing aid with batteries, old eyeglasses.

Communication:
Cell phone with 12 volt auto plug (and know how to text), landline telephone that does not need AC power, portable AM/FM radio with batteries, portable TV with battery and 12 volt auto plug. Write the emergency channels, including your city’s, on a sticker.

Food and Water:
Store somewhere you hope to access after an earthquake: Jerry cans of water, food that does not require cooking.

Maintenance:
After several years everything spoils, discharges, or no longer fits. Even your best intentions become obsolete. So keep your preparations at a level you will maintain year after year.