Urban Survival Skills Fair

Plan to join us at our Urban Survival Skills Fair on Saturday, May 18th, between 10 and 2 PM in High Point Commons Park. This event is part of this year’s West Seattle Bee Festival. Look for our big tent in the north end of the park close to the Bee Garden.

The Urban Survival Skills Fair offers an opportunity to gain a variety of preparedness-related skills and useful knowledge from experts. Topics may include:

• Amateur Radio — Learn about one of the few communication tools that do not depend on the internet.
• Develop a disaster communication plan — Communication is critical during a disaster. What should you consider when making your own plan?
• Learn some useful camping hacks and share your best hacks with us!
• Build an emergency toilet! We’ll have 50 free toilets to give away (first come, first serve). Learn what to do if the sewer lines have broken or if there is no water.
• Prepared Communities — Learn more about the network of Seattle Emergency Communication Hubs and about the West Seattle Emergency Communication Hubs.
• Prepared Families — Take some high impact, low-cost steps that can help your family and household make it through any situation.
• Prepared Neighbors — Learn about the City of Seattle’s SNAP (Seattle Neighborhoods Actively Prepare) program.
• Prepared Pets — What steps can you take to make sure that your pet stays safe in a disaster?
• Prepared Schools — Do you understand the “reunification process” that schools may implement following a disaster?
• Smartphone Emergency Apps — Take steps before a disaster to download useful tools…many will function even without a cellphone signal. Do you know of other apps?
• Utilities — Do you know when or if you should shut off utilities such as gas, water and electricity, and how to do so safely?
• Water — Do you know how to properly store and purify water? Following the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, people were without running water for over a year.

If you’d like to volunteer, please get in touch!

This will be our 7th year at the Bee Festival. We hope you can “bee” there too!