DisasterReadyNYC

In the event that all bridges and tunnels out of Manhattan are closed and you just have to get off the island, an inflatable raft is your be...

Costco is now offering a waterproof Emergency Food Supply for about $75 (it's $85 if you order after Sept. 14th). Included in the plas...

On Thursday, September 4, the New York City Office of Emergency Management and members of the Citizen Corps Council ...

In June I posted a story on the possibility of an earthquake in the New York metro area. A new report in the latest issue of the Bulletin o...

Two articles on survival preparations and skills in two days, what does The New York Times know that we don't?! The first article, She...

Fox News aired an interview today with Scott Weber, a former senior counsel to the Department of Homeland Security and now a terrorism exper...

The Chief Medical Officer for the Department of Homeland Security, Dr. Jeffrey W. Runge, testified today that the threat of a biological att...

This past weekend The New York Times published an article " Meeting Disaster With More Than a Wing and a Prayer " (7/19/08) that ...

National Geographic News yesterday reported that Hurricane Bertha is so far from the coast that it is not a threat to the U.S. coastline, b...

This just in from the National Hurricane Center : ...BERTHA BECOMES THE FIRST HURRICANE OF THE 2008 ATLANTIC SEASON... AT 500 AM AST...0900Z...

The National Hurricane Center has just issued an advisory at 5 a.m. this morning for Tropical Depression Two . While it's still far too...

Legislation now before the New York State Assembly that would make purchases of specific Go Bag supplies tax free during the first 11 days o...

According to a report today in the New York Sun , an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities might lead to retaliation on...

"Stay Cool in the Pool " is this week's tip from the New York City Office of Emergency Management. The email tip sent out toda...

The May 29th issue of Time magazine features an interesting article by Amanda Ripley, culled from her book The Unthinkable , entitled "...

The American Red Cross of Greater New York is looking for Reserve Volunteers. The following is their description of the program: The Disaste...

A new report released yesterday by the US Climate Change Science Program , which is overseen by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini...

I just placed an order this morning from my new favorite store Cabela's after reading in HSToday about how "...federal catastroph...

According to an article in the latest issue of HSToday , if a Category 3 Hurricane struck this region, "such a storm could surpass Hurr...

For a quick tool to determine if you live in a hurricane evacuation zone, courtesy of the NYC Office of Emergency Management, click here . ...

This just in from the Department of Homeland Security : June 18, 2008 — The United States government's national threat level is Elevated...

An anonymous reader posted a comment that is worth repeating: "When I lived in California, the yellow pages had an Earthquake Checklist...

People laugh when I talk about the possibility of a serious earthquake in Manhattan because the last big one (5.5 on the Richter magnitude s...

As I organized my Go Bag I had two first aid kits that were in cumbersome metal briefcases. While these looked nice on a store shelf, they ...

I have five radios in my Go Bag (three are battery operated, one is a hand crank flashlight that also has a radio in it) but the Red Cross/...

I keep three pairs of these DeWalt work gloves in my Go Bag because if you find yourself in a debris-filled environment and you need to ei...

Gawker.com called this blog "The Scariest Site On The Internet?" when I posted my best advice for a blackout here as the city me...