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Your Guide to Surviving Extreme Weather


How to pack a go bag, get emergency alerts, and find disaster aid.

The state government also decides whether to implement other transportation procedures such as contraflow, where officials reverse traffic flow on one side of a highway to allow larger amounts of people to evacuate. During the most extreme events, the agency also deploys its own teams of firefighters and rescue workers to help locate missing people, clear roadways, and restore public services. FEMA gives out preloaded debit cards to help people buy food and fuel in the first days after a disaster, and it may also provide cash payments for home repairs that your insurance doesn’t cover.

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