This month the Prepare in a Year topic is water. Do the Prepare in a Year activity (submit the form if you want to enter to win a prize), but also teach yourself more on the topic.

We’re starting our Prepare in a Year 26 program with water because, without it, you’re not going to last very long after a disaster.

Prepare in a Year 26 starts now. You can take care of all of your worries about being prepared for disasters by following our monthly readiness program, which tackles one topic per month.

The two most important things you can do to prepare for emergencies are to ready your household and connect with your neighbors.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year.

The task for December is to work on increasing the resilience of your neighborhood and community.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year.

The task for November is to is to learn key skills.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year. The task for October is to make sure you have quick and easy access to documents that could be inaccessible after a disaster or destroyed by it.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year. The task for September is to make sure you are prepared for three specific types of disaster: earthquake, wildfire, and tsunami.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year. The task for August is to make sure you have an emergency plan for your pets and any livestock. This plan must include the following:

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year. The task for July is to make sure you have a plan to get back together again If you are apart from your family when disaster strikes.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year.

If you’re participating in our Prepare in a Year program, you know that the March activity is to make a communications plan. You know that a good communications plan includes a strategy and tools for communicating, access to emergency alerts, and a way to keep your devices charged.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year.

The task for February is similar to that of January. Store enough food for all people in your household (including pets) for four weeks or more.

Have you accomplished your Prepare in a Year task for January? This is a reminder that you still have a few more days to get it done.

It’s a simple task, but it does require some muscle, since water is heavy, and some space, since water takes up room.

Preparing for emergencies is not about fear. To the contrary, it’s a reflection of a healthy attitude of resilience. When you prepare for emergencies, you show your children, family, friends, and neighbors that you’re not in denial and that, reassuringly, you are taking care of things.

There’s nothing we like better than helping our community prepare. So we’re getting ready for our second Prepare in a Year, the 2025 version, and its monthly focus topics and activities.

December is a good time to review everything you’ve done on this 12-month journey to prepare—and feel good about all that hard work. It’s also the time to make sure you haven’t missed anything. Examine any possible hazards: water heater, furniture and appliances, toxic chemicals, and exterior hazards.