{"product_id":"get-ready-isbn-9781632173041","title":"Get Ready!","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe definitive guide to getting ready for and staying safe after a major earthquake in the Pacific Northwest. FEMA recommends being prepared for two weeks of self-sufficiency after it occurs, and this handbook will show you how with clear, informative, and easy-to-implement steps.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecent seismic activity has made national headlines and underscored the fact that the Cascadia fault line off the coast of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California is overdue for a major earthquake. And when it happens, living conditions could be akin to those in the mid-nineteenth century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis handbook covers the supplies you need to stay safely in place, including water, food (and food prep), first aid, sanitation, health and hygiene needs, shelter and bedding, and light\/fire. It also includes lists of what to purchase and how to store it, as well as simple excercises to gain confidence in perfoming necessary tasks. Learn what to do during and immediately after an earthquake, how to develop a reunification plan, and how to communicate when basic infrastructure is down.  It also addresses the particular concerns of those living in coastal areas (the tsunami zone) as well as those outside of the severe impact zone. It covers long-term ways to stay safe without modern conveniences and a crash course in survival techniques should the quake happen before all preparations are complete. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGet Ready!\u003c\/i\u003e presents information in clear, practical, and managable steps, equipping the reader with the skills to care for themselves and their loved ones should a major earthquake hit. And when it does, the internet will not be an option, making this reference handbook invaluable. If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you need \u003ci\u003eGet Ready!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeb Moller\u003c\/b\u003e is the former public-private partnerships manager at the Oregon Department of Emergency Management. She is a Senior Fellow at the Center of Excellence for Homeland Security and Emergency Management, under the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges. She is a member of the Oregon Emergency Management Association and the Capital Area Emergency Management Committee. Deb is the founder of Cascadia Calling, an organization dedicated to earthquake preparedness in the region. She holds a master’s degree in applied behavioral science from\u003cbr\u003e Bastyr University.My 1949 Cape Cod–style house, with its dark shutters and\u003cbr\u003etrimmed shrubs, blends in well: a small house on a quiet street in\u003cbr\u003ethe slow-paced capital city of Salem, Oregon. Unless, of course,\u003cbr\u003eyou go snooping under the sofa, where cans of water—carefully\u003cbr\u003eplaced on their sides in foil trays—hide.\u003cbr\u003eMy hallways look ordinary, but open the linen closet and\u003cbr\u003eonly one shelf holds sheets. The other three stock canned goods:\u003cbr\u003ehearty soups, baked beans, tuna, beef stew. Pull out the drawers\u003cbr\u003ebelow to reveal N95 masks, six bottles of hand sanitizer, batteries\u003cbr\u003eof all sizes, two first-aid manuals for backcountry hikers, extralarge\u003cbr\u003ebottles of various pain pills, and packages of heavy-duty\u003cbr\u003econtractor garbage bags for lining buckets improvised into toilets.\u003cbr\u003eElsewhere in the house, shelves, cupboards, boxes, and bins are\u003cbr\u003efilled with freeze-dried food, first-aid supplies, charcoal briquets,\u003cbr\u003eand a camp stove.\u003cbr\u003eWhat you’ve found are not the dark secrets of a paranoid\u003cbr\u003edoomsday fearer or the stockpile of an agoraphobic homebody,\u003cbr\u003ebut the preparations of an expert who wants to be ready for the\u003cbr\u003every real threat of a 9.0 Cascadia subduction zone earthquake.\u003cbr\u003eThe Cascadia earthquake is the “Really Big One,” the earthquake\u003cbr\u003ethat locals have whispered about, the one that the New\u003cbr\u003eYorker freaked out the whole region about, the one that inspired\u003cbr\u003ethis book. If the full 620-mile-long fault unlocks, we’ll see what\u003cbr\u003escientists call a “full-rip” event (see page 4 for what this means),\u003cbr\u003ecausing severe shaking from west of I-5 to the coast and farther\u003cbr\u003eeast in some areas. When the shaking starts, we’ll be living in\u003cbr\u003ethe twenty-first century; when it stops, we’ll be living in the\u003cbr\u003e1850s: no power, water, plumbing, phones, or internet. Few basic\u003cbr\u003epublic services and limited medical assistance. But our ancestors\u003cbr\u003esurvived back then, and we can too—if we’re prepared.\u003cbr\u003eEmergency officials estimate that getting help to everyone\u003cbr\u003ewill take two weeks or more. That’s why I am “two-weeksready”—\u003cbr\u003eI’m able to meet the needs of my family for fourteen\u003cbr\u003edays without outside help. That’s why you should be too.\u003cbr\u003ePreparation is hard to weave into modern life. Like so many\u003cbr\u003ebefore me, I failed time and again to put aside the hours to make\u003cbr\u003ethe perfect emergency kit, to remember to rotate my food on the\u003cbr\u003eperfect schedule, and to make new plans every time anyone in\u003cbr\u003ethe family changed jobs or schools.\u003cbr\u003eI could tell you that getting ready for a catastrophic earthquake\u003cbr\u003eis easy, a “just do it” proposition. I could tell you that the\u003cbr\u003etips and tricks I’ve included here will help you avoid every obstacle\u003cbr\u003ealong the way. I’d love to say I have a magic wand that can get\u003cbr\u003eyou ready to survive for two weeks in a snap. It would feel good\u003cbr\u003eto tell you that. But it wouldn’t be true.\u003cbr\u003eThere isn’t a convenient empty space in your budget, your\u003cbr\u003eschedule, or your house just waiting to be filled with “getting\u003cbr\u003eready.” You’ll have to find time, money, and space in a life where\u003cbr\u003eall those things are probably already 100 percent (or more) spoken\u003cbr\u003efor. I can help you with creative solutions to maximize your time,\u003cbr\u003emoney, and storage space, but it would be silly to say that adding\u003cbr\u003eone more thing to an already busy life is easy. It won’t be.\u003cbr\u003eInstead, you’ll have to consider why it is important to you to\u003cbr\u003eprepare, why being prepared is more important than whatever\u003cbr\u003eelse is competing for your time, money, or space. Everyone’s\u003cbr\u003eanswer will be different.\u003cbr\u003eI’ve only been involved professionally in emergency management\u003cbr\u003esince 2016, when I became the public-private partnerships\u003cbr\u003emanager at the Oregon Office of Emergency Management.\u003cbr\u003eWhen I left that job, I started a community-based earthquake\u003cbr\u003epreparedness organization called Cascadia Calling, to help people\u003cbr\u003eoutside the tsunami zone get ready for a 9.0 earthquake. But\u003cbr\u003emy decades working in education and social service programs,\u003cbr\u003ecoupled with my master’s degree in applied behavioral science,\u003cbr\u003eshape the advice in this book. Those experiences taught me that\u003cbr\u003epreparedness, like any big endeavor, is best achieved by starting\u003cbr\u003esmall, doing a little on a consistent basis rather than a lot once\u003cbr\u003ein a while, staying focused, expecting setbacks, having a plan,\u003cbr\u003elearning from mistakes, and celebrating progress.\u003cbr\u003eI’ve been personally dedicated to being more prepared for the\u003cbr\u003e“unimaginable” since 2001, after the unthinkable happened on\u003cbr\u003emy birthday—September 11. It has taken me years to be really\u003cbr\u003eprepared for the Cascadia earthquake, and I’ve made tons of mistakes.\u003cbr\u003eI want to save others from making those same mistakes. I\u003cbr\u003eneeded a book that covered not just all the “must-haves,” but was\u003cbr\u003ea full guide to getting ready for a devastating natural disaster:\u003cbr\u003ea how-to, when-to, and where-to-store-all-these-supplies road\u003cbr\u003emap to preparedness. In writing this book, I created the book\u003cbr\u003ethat I wish I’d had: how to be as prepared as possible, in a way\u003cbr\u003ethat fits my life—to not let perfect be the enemy of good enough.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is designed to help a busy, distracted person—someone\u003cbr\u003ejust like me—get ready for the Cascadia earthquake. With\u003cbr\u003equick tasks, checklists, and useful tips, this book gives you ways\u003cbr\u003eto fit getting prepared into your life—in the kinds of small chunks\u003cbr\u003eof time you can carve out. It covers everything you need to know\u003cbr\u003eto get ready to be on your own for two weeks after a full-rip 9.0\u003cbr\u003eCascadia earthquake, and gives you the skills and supplies to\u003cbr\u003ehelp in many other types of natural disasters. It also explains just\u003cbr\u003ewhy this is so important: the first two chapters cover the science\u003cbr\u003eand statistics driving the recommendations. If you already know\u003cbr\u003eenough about the Really Big One to want to be two-weeks-ready,\u003cbr\u003eyou can jump right to Chapter Three (page 26) and start preparing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWHY SHOULD I GET READY?\u003cbr\u003eWrite down the answers to the following questions and post\u003cbr\u003ethem in a place where you’ll see them every day. If you don’t\u003cbr\u003eremind yourself often of why being prepared is important to\u003cbr\u003eyou, you’re likely to stall in your progress before you get very far.\u003cbr\u003e• Who depends on you to take care of them?\u003cbr\u003e• What losses or suffering will you prevent by being\u003cbr\u003eprepared?\u003cbr\u003e• What worries or fears will you ease by being ready?\u003cbr\u003e• What regrets will you avoid by acting now?\u003cbr\u003e• Why is it important to you to survive an earthquake?\u003cbr\u003e• Why is it important to you that you help others survive\u003cbr\u003ean earthquake?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREPARING FOR OTHER EARTHQUAKES\u003cbr\u003eThis book is about preparing for a catastrophic, full-rip 9.0\u003cbr\u003eCascadia subduction zone earthquake and the aftershocks to\u003cbr\u003efollow. But if you are prepared for the Really Big One, you will\u003cbr\u003ealso be well equipped to deal with more-localized earthquakes.\u003cbr\u003eEven so, what you should expect from a Cascadia subduction\u003cbr\u003ezone earthquake is not the same as what a different fault\u003cbr\u003emight produce. For example, a large earthquake generated by\u003cbr\u003eeither the Seattle Fault or the Portland Hills Fault will cause\u003cbr\u003esevere damage to those cities, possibly even greater than a\u003cbr\u003e9.0 Cascadia earthquake. But because there will be minimal\u003cbr\u003eimpact outside the respective metropolitan areas, help will\u003cbr\u003ecome within hours or days after such an earthquake. The reason\u003cbr\u003efocusing on the Cascadia earthquake is so important is\u003cbr\u003ebecause, unlike some of the more intense earthquakes that are\u003cbr\u003epossible, the 620-mile length of the fault, coupled with the 9.0\u003cbr\u003emagnitude of a Cascadia earthquake, will leave a massive area\u003cbr\u003ewithout the infrastructure for help to arrive quickly. (See pages\u003cbr\u003e5–6 for further discussion on intensity versus magnitude.) You\u003cbr\u003ecan’t prepare for every possibility, but being two-weeks-ready\u003cbr\u003egives you the best chance to weather whatever seismic activity\u003cbr\u003ecomes your way.\u003cbr\u003ePeople in any community facing a major earthquake can\u003cbr\u003eadapt this preparedness advice to their situation. Those who\u003cbr\u003elive in Alaska or near the San Andreas (California), New Madrid\u003cbr\u003e(Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas), or\u003cbr\u003eWasatch (Utah) Faults are especially at risk. An earthquake\u003cbr\u003eof a much lower magnitude but higher intensity can cause\u003cbr\u003epervasive destruction across a heavily populated area. Being\u003cbr\u003etwo-weeks-ready is prudent if your city or county is at risk for\u003cbr\u003esuch an event.","brand":"Sasquatch Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301984293093,"sku":"NP9781632173041","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781632173041.jpg?v=1767727966","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/get-ready-isbn-9781632173041","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}