This April – Take the Preparedness Challenge!

Starting Monday, April 5 – Friday, May 7, 2010, we’ll be hitting the airwaves (mp3), blog sites and on-line news sites with the "3 to Get Ready" Preparedness Challenge! It’s our way of encouraging Seattle and King County residents to jumpstart their preparedness and commemorate April as Disaster Preparedness Month in Washington.

Here’s how it works: complete three steps to preparedness as outlined below, then teach three others to do the same – 3 Friends, 3 Steps, 3 to Get Ready. It’s easy!

Go to MyNorthwest.com/getready and sign up for a prize packet that includes a full-color t-shirt, whistle and keychain flashlight. Registration deadline is May 7. Prizes available while supplies last. Allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. Click here for a streaming video from KIRO 97.3.

The three steps are:
1.  Store emergency drinking water – click here
2.  Create an out-of-area contact – click here
3.  Practice drop, cover and hold – click here

Information is also available in 14 languages.

This campaign focuses on three easy steps that don’t take a lot of time, don’t cost a lot of money, and best of all, get people on their way to being safe and self-sufficient after any emergency or disaster. The more we prepare today, the less we’ll worry about later!

For questions, give us a call at 206-233-5076.