1. Pick one of the natural disasters facing the Portland area and create your own assessment of the risk that it poses. Your assessment should be a paragraph of at least 5 sentences including: Likelihood of the event. Statistics on history of events in the Pacific Northwest. Risk that the disaster poses to YOU. Measures you can take to be prepared.
2. What sources of media do you rely on to be informed of potential emergencies or disasters? Will you be able to get information if the power is out? Research options that are available to you and list five possible ways you can get information during an emergency.
3. Write a short paragraph about how you dealt with an emergency in the past such as a snowstorm or any of the disasters listed above. Describe what you did and what you could have done be be better prepared.
4. What would you do in the case of a Winter Storm Warning?
5. What would you do in the case of a Flood Watch?