• Behavioral Issues
• Child Care
• Cleaning Up After a Storm
• Communication
• Deciding To Stay Or Go
• Evacuation Shelters
• First Aid & Medical
• Flood Center
• Food and Water
• Help the Relief Effort
• Insurance Center
• Lighting & Power
• Pet Care
• Preparing Your Home
• Special Needs
• Storms Explained

Emergency Essentials Checklist: Important Family Documents

One of the most important elements that needs to be added to your emergency essentials, is often the most overlooked: family documents. Records, contracts, deeds and other important documents need to be protected during an emergency situation. Your emergency essentials should include these family documents stored in a waterproof, portable container:

__Will
__Insurance policies
__Contracts
__Deeds
__Stocks and bonds
__Passports, social security cards, immunization records
__Bank account numbers
__Credit card account numbers and companies
__Inventory of valuable household goods, important telephone numbers
__Family records (birth, marriage, death certificates)