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Family Communication • How will my family/household get in touch if the cell try to convey only vital information to emergency personnel
phone, Internet, or landline doesn’t work?
and/or family.
During And After Disasters • How will I let loved ones know I am safe? • For nonemergency communications, use text messaging,
• How will family/household get to a meeting place after email, or social media instead of making voice calls on your
By O’Neal Bardin, Jr., the emergency? cell phone to avoid tying up voice networks. Data-based
Executive Director, Complete a contact card for each adult family member services like texts and emails are less likely to experience
Northern Palm Beach and print them out. Have them keep these cards handy in network congestion. You can also use social media to post
County Improvement a wallet, purse or briefcase, etc. Additionally, complete your status to let family and friends know you are okay. In
District contact cards for each child in your family. Put the addition to Facebook and Twitter, you can use resources such
Your family may not cards in their backpacks or book bags. An example can as the American Red Cross’s Safe and Well program.
be together when disaster be found at http://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/ • If you are unsuccessful in completing a call using your
strikes, so plan how you documents/34330. Information should include contact cell phone, wait 10 seconds before redialing to help reduce
will contact one another. information for family, friends and neighbors as well as network congestion.
Think about how you will doctors and school information. • Immediately following a disaster, resist using your
communicate in different Identify a contact such as a friend or relative who lives mobile device to watch streaming videos, download music
situations. Consider the out of state for household members to notify, they are safe. or videos, or play video games, all of which can add to
following questions when It may be easier to make a long-distance phone call than to network congestion. Limiting use of these services can help
making a plan: call across town, so an out-of-town contact may be in a better potentially life-saving emergency calls get through to 9-1-1.
• How will my family/household get emergency alerts position to communicate among separated family members. • Conserve your cell phone battery by reducing the
and warnings? The following are tips when making phone calls and brightness of your screen, placing your phone in airplane
• How will my family/household get to safe locations using your smartphone during or after a disaster: mode, and closing apps you are not using that draw power,
for relevant emergencies? • Keep all phone calls brief. If you need to use a phone, unless you need to use the phone.
Grand Celebration Cruise Ship Comes To The Rescue

Photos by Penny Sheltz warehouse in Riviera Beach, as well as monetary resources have the proper documentation. “We felt like we had to do
The Florida-based Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line in partnership with the Mission Resolve Foundation. this for the people of the Bahamas and the island of Grand
had their ship the Grand Celebration take supplies, first The cruise line said that the Grand Celebration ship Bahama, especially given our history with the island. Apart
responders including doctors, electricians and firemen and offered the chance for Bahamians stranded by Hurricane from the Bahamas we have no other home, so it was like the
Bahamian evacuees in Florida to Grand Bahama Island. Dorian to evacuate to Florida free of charge, given they destruction was in our backyard,” said CEO Oneil Khosa.
Bahamas Paradise collected specific items donated at their

Grand Celebration awaits supplies to be loaded from their
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