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A disaster strikes. Your home and possessions are destroyed. Will you be able to pick up the pieces? You will, if you do both of the following:
- Keep an up-to-date household inventory
- Keep the inventory and other valuable documents in a secure location
This 4-page publication provides details about these two tasks. It is a minor revision written by Michael T. Olexa, Jana Caracciolo, and Lauren Grant, and published by the Food and Resource Economics Department, October 2019.
DH138/DH138: Keeping a Household Inventory and Protecting Valuable Records (ufl.edu)
References
Before Disaster Strikes: How to make sure you're financially prepared to deal with a natural disaster (FEMA Publication 291E). American Red Cross, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and National Endowment for Financial Education. Access online at http://www.lawndalecity.org/PDFs/MSD/EP/Beforedisaster.pdf.
Household and Personal Property Inventory Book (Circular 1346). University of Illinois, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. Access online at http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/vista/abstracts/ahouseinv.htm.
Home Inventory Checklist. Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. Access online at http://www.floir.com/siteDocuments/InventoryChecklist_6-26-08.pdf.
Flood Damage Checklist: https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/ageng/structu/de1519.pdf.
Flood Damage Checklist (Red Cross): http://www.redcross.org/images/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m4340128_Flood.pdf
Key Facts about Flood Readiness: http://www.cdc.gov/disasters/floods/readiness.html
Key Facts about Flood Recovery: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/11948/
Floods: Protect Property: http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=3262
Flooding: http://www.ready.gov/floods
Hurricanes: http://www.ready.gov/hurricanes
Hurricanes: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/hurricane/
resources/TropicalCyclones11.pdf