When disaster strikes, people tend to lean on their neighbors for support. For Hurricane Preparedness Week, officials are calling attention to a program set up to help neighbors work together following an emergency.
The Neighbors Helping Neighbors program is set up to help community leaders involve and educate their neighbors about simple steps they can take to become more prepared.
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Officials said 46% of people expect to rely a great deal on people in their neighborhood for assistance within 72 hours of a disaster.
But officials said research on preparedness shows that people who believe themselves “prepared” for disasters often aren’t as prepared as they think. Forty percent of survey respondents did not have household plans, 80% had not conducted home evacuation drills, and nearly 60% did not know their community’s evacuation routes.
READ: Hurricane Preparedness Week: How to prepare before the season starts
Click here for a tool kit of how to join the Neighbors Helping Neighbors program.
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