Jamie Lee Curtis: Preparing Your Family for Natural Disasters

The American Red Cross is launching a new public awareness campaign designed to make it easier for Americans to prepare for emergencies. The campaign - Do More Than Cross Your Fingers - features actress and Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet Member Jamie Lee Curtis.

The Do More Than Cross Your Fingers campaign will track and measure peoples preparedness levels, encouraging Americans to take simple actions like building an emergency kit, creating a communication and evacuation plan and being informed about disasters common in their communities.

Jamie Lee Curtis, a long-time supporter of the Red Cross and a vocal advocate for personal preparedness in her home state of California talks to us live. She will encourage and show mothers how to prepare their loved ones and households for the unexpected. According to Curtis, We all cross our fingers for luck. But when were facing lifes emergencies, its easy (and important) to do a little more.

What you will see & learn:
How to assemble a household emergency supply kit;
How to write an emergency plan and what to do with it;
What the Red Cross is doing in your area to prepare for disaster and emergency relief, plus more!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Jamie Lee Curtis
• American Red Cross
• personal preparedness

[thoostorm4]

@gingerykid454 i hope no one hasto depend on yer ignorant ass to survive they would be lost

[mosbysmen]

if you have a hand cranked radio , you need to crank it and run it often or the internal battery will go bad and it wont work when you need it .

[TheRANDOMKid9]

ACTIVIA GIRL?!?!

[TheAlexswiffey]

since i live where tornadoes,earth quakes, and tsunamis happend i am not prepared but i guess its time to make a family kit...and a personal kit for my self.

[gingerykid454]

Good for Jamie Lee - this is a great service. I know I am not prepared, but I guess it is time to assemble some items.

[PirateSmoothie]

wow....am i the only one who has seen this....? I guess i care about my life =]