General preparedness refers to your overall state of preparedness and readiness.  Every situation, emergency and/or disaster requires a certain amount of preparedness.  For example, in the case of a hurricane, you may need to think about things like knowing your evacuation routes or having enough supplies to survive until help arrives.  While in an active shooter situation you won’t need a three days supply of food, but you will have had to prepare yourself by practicing situational awareness, learning first aid or understanding how you may react to a violent situation. Your preparation efforts for specific types of disasters will overlap to a large degree, i.e. evacuation plans, food storage, fuel storage, and having a generator will be common preparations for things like hurricanes, storms, power outages, etc. Ideally, we would like to be as prepared as possible for any contingency.  

Your state of “General Preparedness” will depend on several things, such as, your commitment to prepare, how long you have been preparing and your preparation budget.  In the “Strategies” section, you will find more information on how to steadily improve you state of readiness. Ideally, we would like to be as prepared as possible for any contingency, but we need to start somewhere, prioritize and gradually move forward.

Use the dashboard below to access specific information about preparing: