{"id":4840,"date":"2015-09-01T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2015-08-11T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T21:00:24","slug":"be-prepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4840","title":{"rendered":"Be Prepared!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4842\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/broadcast\/id\/708\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4842\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Ambulance-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"Reporter watching man loaded into ambulance. M004_2481, WSB Radio Records, Popular Music and Culture Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Ambulance-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Ambulance.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporter watching man loaded into ambulance. M004_2481, WSB Radio Records, Popular Music and Culture Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>September is National Preparedness Month.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)&#8217;s National Preparedness Month page at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ready.gov\/september\">http:\/\/www.ready.gov\/september<\/a> urges citizens to be proactive by communicating with members of their family and their community, and developing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ready.gov\/make-a-plan\">plans<\/a> to follow in\u00a0case of an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The DLG includes resources published in Georgia (and available as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galileo.usg.edu\/express?link=ggpd\">Georgia Government Publications<\/a> database) that can help with planning during emergencies:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/ggp\/id:s-ga-bg630-pe38-bm1-b2006-bd5-belec-p-btext\" target=\"_blank\">Do you know what to do when disaster strikes?<\/a>\u00a0(Georgia. Office of the Governor. Georgia Emergency Management Agency)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/ggp\/id:s-ga-bg630-pe38-bm1-b2009-bp7-belec-p-btext\" target=\"_blank\">Prepare for the worst; hope for the best: how to better protect your home from disasters<\/a>\u00a0(Georgia. Emergency Management Agency)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/ggp\/id:s-ga-bf500-pa4-bm1-b2009-be4-belec-p-btext\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia&#8217;s emergency preparedness : for individuals with disabilities and elderly persons<\/a>\u00a0(Georgia. State ADA Coordinator&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/ggp\/id:s-ga-bt700-pc6-bm1-b2009-bh8-belec-p-btext\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricane season safety information<\/a>\u00a0(Georgia. Dept. of Transportation. Office of Communications)<\/p>\n<p>We hope that you\u00a0find these resources useful when it comes to disaster\u00a0planning.<\/p>\n<p>Be safe!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September is National Preparedness Month. The\u00a0Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)&#8217;s National Preparedness Month page at\u00a0http:\/\/www.ready.gov\/september urges citizens to be proactive by communicating with members of their family and their community, and developing plans to follow in\u00a0case of an emergency. The DLG includes resources published in Georgia (and available as part of the Georgia Government Publications &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4840\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Be Prepared!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[322,319,320,321,323],"class_list":["post-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commemorative-events","tag-disasters","tag-emergencies","tag-fema","tag-preparedness","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4843,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}