September is National Preparedness Month: Are You Ready for a natural disaster?

Because September is National Preparedness Month, now is the perfect time for you and your community to be prepared in advance for unavoidable weather conditions and unpredictable natural disasters.

As the nation’s most reliable network, Verizon can help the Metro Atlanta area prepare for bad weather situations.

Verizon spokesperson Zakir Burrow offers these helpful storm preparation tips:

• Store phones, tablets, batteries, chargers and other equipment in a dry, accessible location.
• Simple zip-lock storage bags will shield devices, and today there are many waterproof phones, cases and other protective accessories.
• Keep phone and tablet batteries fully charged – in case local power is lost – well before warnings are issued.
• Maintain a list of emergency numbers – police and fire agencies; power and insurance companies; family, friends and co-workers; etc. – and program them into your wireless devices before an emergency arises.
• Use a free service such as Verizon Cloud, which provides 5MB of data storage, to save your contacts and other important information on a secure server in case your phone or tablet is lost or damaged.
• Use your tablet to photograph and catalogue your valuables and other household belongings for possible insurance claims.