September is National Preparedness Month

National Preparedness Month, recognized each September, provides an opportunity to remind us that we all must prepare ourselves and our families now and throughout the year. This year, National Preparedness Month will focus on planning, with an overarching theme: Disasters Happen Prepare Now. Learn How.

From last fall’s snow storms and fires to this springs flooding, power outages and evacuations should be fresh in our minds. As a whole, Blaine County managed the situations well, but what would have happened with a few changes to the situations above? What if power outage was several days long...