Severe Weather & Emergency Prep

Emergency Kit Recipes

Share easy emergency kit recipes made by VDH staff!

Full cookbook 
YouTube Link 

🎙️ Available in English 

📌 This can be found in Severe Weather + Emergency Prep 

Added 01.22.26

VDH Severe Weather Toolkit

This VDH toolkit offers social media graphics and post copy on hurricanes, hot, temperatures, and winter weather. 

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 03.12.25

Natural Disaster Toolkits

Toolkits are available for the following:

• Flood safety

• Severe weather preparedness

• Wildfire safety

• Hurricane safety

• Extreme heat safety

• Winter weather safety

• Earthquakes

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 09.01.23

Natural Disaster Resources

This page includes CDC resources related to natural disasters for the following topics: animal hazards, carbon monoxide poisoning & generator safety, chronic conditions, cleanup & mold, food & water safety, hand hygiene & illness prevention, extreme heat, lightning, materials for children, and mental health & coping.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Use resources as needed in times of natural disasters or other emergencies.

Added: 05.29.24

Preparedness Tips for People with Disabilities Bookmarks

These printable bookmarks from Ready.Gov provide preparedness tips for people with disabilities to stay informed, make a plan, and build a kit.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Print + share or send to doctor's offices, libraries + other community partners

Added: 09.29.23

Make a Plan Disaster Kit

This toolkit from DHS offers resources to help individuals + families create disaster emergency plans, including fillable forms + other preparedness materials such as checklists, tips, + resource links.

🎙️ Available in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Tagalog, Vietnamese

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 08.21.23

VDH Sun Safety Toolkit

This toolkit from VDH offers four social media graphics on how to stay safe when out in the sun. 

🎙️Available in English 

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters + Skin Cancer 

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 7.3.25

VDH Beat the Heat Toolkit

VDH's toolkit has social media graphics and post copy on staying safe during extreme heat conditions. 

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish 

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters

💡Use to create social media posts, newsletters + emails.

Added 06.20.25

VDH Extreme Heat + Heat-Related Illness

VDH's website offers tips to avoid heat-related illness, heat-related weather terms, signs + symptoms of heat-related illness, and resources.

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters

💡 Use the information to create social media posts, newsletters, + emails

Added: 07.19.23

Red Cross Extreme Heat Safety 

The Red Cross provides tips on what to do before, during, and after extreme heat exposure.

🎙️Videos available in English, Spanish, ASL

🎙️ Checklist available in English, Arabic, Burmese, Chinese (simplified and traditional),French, Creole, Hakha Chin, Polish, Spanish 

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters

💡Print + post, share online, or send to doctor's offices + community partners

Added: 07.19.23

Beat the Heat Toolkit

This toolkit from PHCC contains a PDF on staying safe in extreme heat conditions as well as shareable social media graphics. 

🎙️Available in English + Spanish

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 06.24.24

VDH Protect the Skin You're In 

These printable flyers from VDH offer tips to protect your skin from sun damage in both summer and winter!

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 This can be found in Severe Weather + Cancer

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails.

Added: 10.16.23

Heat Action Plan

This flyer from CDC helps people who spend a lot of time outdoors with a plan to make sure they safe health and safe in the heat. 

🎙️ Available in English 

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters

💡 Print + post or share online

Added: 07.11.24

Heat-Related Illnesses

This graphic from CDC provides information about what to look for and what to do for heat-related illness. The graphic includes heat stroke, heat exhaustion, heat cramps, sunburn, and heat rash.

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters

💡 Print + post or share online

Added: 07.11.24

Beat the Heat Infographic

This infographic from CDC stressed that heat-related deaths are preventable and provides easy-to-read information on about what extreme heat is, who is affected, where it occurs, and how to avoid it. 

🎙️ Available in: English, Vietnamese, Chinese

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters

💡Print + post or share online

Added: 05.22.24

Flood Safety Social Media

The National Weather Service has video, graphics and post copy on flooding for both warm and cold weather. 

🎙️ Available in English 

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters + emails

Added 07.18.25

Flood Safety Graphics

Ready.gov provides a variety of social media graphics regarding flooding. 

🎙️ Available in English and Spanish

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters + emails

Added 07.18.25

What to Wear Before Entering a Home or Building with Mold Damage

This printable from CDC explains what you need to wear to protect yourself in a mold-damaged building. 

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Household Safety

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 10.02.24

8 Tips to Clean Mold

This graphic of 8 tips from CDC was created to help make mold clean up and remediation easier and safer. 

🎙️ Available in the following languages: English, Arabic  Chamorro  Chinese,  Chuukese, French, Creole, Japanese, Korean,Spanish (Puerto Rico), Spanish,Tagalog,Vietnamese,

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Household Safety

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 10.02.24

Shopping List for Cleaning Mold in Your Home After a Flood

This printable from CDC offers a list of items to use to clean up mold after a flood. 

🎙️ Available English + Spanish

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Household Safety

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 10.02.24

Homeowners and Renters Guide to Mold Cleanup After Disasters

This booklet offers detailed information for renters and homeowners for cleaning up mold after a disaster. 

🎙️Available in English,  Spanish,  Vietnamese

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Household Safety

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 10.02.24

Hurricane Preparedness

This social media toolkit can help people understand their risk from hurricanes and begin pre-season preparations now, and what to do before, during, and after a storm.

🎙️ Available in the English

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡Share on social media, newsletters + emails

Added: 04.03.25

Protect Yourself and Your Family From Mosquitos After Hurricanes

This printable from CDC offers tips on how to protect yourself and your family from mosquitos after a hurricane.

🎙️ Available in the following languages: English, Spanish + Vietnamese

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters + Bugs + Ticks 

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 06.25.24

Keep Pests Out Fact Sheet

After a disaster, such as a hurricane, rats, mice and other pests might get in your home or building. This printable from CDC explains how to protect your home and family.

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 06.25.24

Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Toolkit

This CDC toolkit can be used to help ensure that children are fed safely when disaster strikes. Handouts include:

• Hand expression*

• Cup feeding infants during emergencies*

• How to prepare and store powdered infant formula during an emergency*

• How to clean infant feeding items during emergencies*

• Be prepared: Emergency preparation checklist for families with infants and young children*

• Rapid needs assessment intake form

• Breastfeeding during a disaster and other emergency

🎙️ Available in English + *Spanish

📌Find in Maternal/Child Health + Severe Weather 

💡Print + share with organizations + community partners

Added 1.9.25

Common Questions about Infant Feeding During Emergencies

This CDC fact sheet for families answers common questions about feeding infants and young children during an emergency. 

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish 

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters + Maternal/Child Health 

💡 Print + share or send to businesses, organizations + community partners

Added 1.9.25

Eat Safe Foods After a Power Outage

Refrigerated or frozen foods may not be safe to eat after the loss of power. Find out what you can do to keep food safe during a power outage, and when you need to throw away food that could make you sick.

🎙️Available in the following languages: English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese French, Creole, Japanese, Tagalog, Vietnamese

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 06.25.24

Be Prepared for a Power Outage

This flyer from Ready.gov offers information on how to prepare and stay safe in the event of a power outage. Information includes protecting yourself during a power outage: before, during, and after. 

🎙️Available in English

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Download and print or share in newsletters, emails, and with community partners.

Added: 01.09.24

Sheltering in a Radiation Emergency

This brief animated video describes visually what is meant when officials tell people to "shelter in place" in a radiation emergency. 

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡Share in the event of an emergency or as preparation when there is a radiological threat.

Added: 05.20.24

Where to Go in a Radiation Emergency

To protect yourself in a radiation emergency, you should Go Inside, Stay Inside, and Stay Tuned. This animated infographic shows you where to shelter in a radiation emergency, and how to take these important protective steps. 

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Share in the event of an emergency or as preparation when there is a radiological threat.

Added: 05.20.24

Potassium Iodide (KI) and Radiation Emergencies

This animation shows how potassium iodide (KI) can protect the thyroid from radioactive iodine (I-131) when used as directed in some radiation emergencies. It also describes the limitations of KI and its possible side effects. Do not take KI unless directed by a healthcare provider, or public health or emergency response official. 

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Share in the event of an emergency or as preparation when there is a radiological threat.

Added: 05.20.24

VDH News Release Templates

• Winter Weather

• Impending Winter Storm Template 

🎙️ Available in English  

Winter Social Media

This toolkit from the National Weather Service provides social assets on a wide variety of winter weather topics. 

🎙️Available in English + Spanish 

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 02.20.25

Winter Storms Communications Strategy Toolkit

This toolkit aims to help communicators operate from a place of calm during winter storm crises by creating a strategy that tackles these events in a step-by-step fashion.

🎙️  Available in English

📌  Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡Bookmark use a resource

Added: 10.10.25

Frostbite + Hypothermia Infographic

This infographic from CDC covers how to avoid, spot, and treat frostbite and hypothermia. 

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 11.22.23

Winter Storm Safety Checklist

This two-page document from the American Red Cross details what to do before, during, and after a winter storm to stay safe.

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Added: 11.21.23

How to Prepare for a Winter Storm

This 40-second video from FEMA provides fun animation describing how to prepare for winter storms, including winterizing your home, making a family plan, and preparing emergency kits. 

🎙️Available in English

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails.

Added: 01.15.24

What to Do If You're Stuck on the Road

This 30-second video from FEMA provides fun animation reminding you to prepare, plan, and know how you'll stay warm if you are stranded in a winter storm.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Disasters 

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails.

Added: 01.15.24

VDH Protect the Skin You're In 

These printable flyers from VDH offer tips to protect your skin from sun damage in both summer and winter!

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 Find in Severe Weather + Cancer

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails.

Added: 10.16.23