América en Crisis Preparedness · Recovery · Income Support
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Get ready. Adapt. Find opportunities.

Practical information so people and families across the Americas can prepare for different kinds of crises, know what to do during an emergency, and find ways to protect or generate income.

Prepare What to do before it happens
Respond What to do during the emergency
Recover How to get back to normal
Income How to protect or earn money
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What kind of crisis are you worried about?

Pick a crisis to see what to do before, during and after — and what opportunities exist.

Economic Crisis

What to do about recession, inflation, devaluation or job loss, and how to protect or generate income.

Open guide Earthquake

Home preparedness, what to do during the shaking and how to recover afterwards.

Open guide Volcanic Eruption

Ash, flows and evacuation: how to read the alert level, protect your lungs and your roof, and what to do at each phase.

Open guide Flood

How to anticipate rising water, protect your home and get back to normal afterwards.

Open guide Tsunami

The three natural warning signs that come before any official alert, where to go, and why the first wave is not the largest.

Open guide Hurricane

Hurricane season: preparedness, shelter, evacuation and recovery.

Open guide Storms and Extreme Rain

Hail, high winds, lightning storms and rain that overwhelms drainage.

Open guide Wildfires

Wildfires and urban fires: prevention, smoke, evacuation and return.

Open guide Drought and Extreme Heat

Water scarcity, heat stress, crops and rising costs.

Open guide Extreme Cold

Frost, snow and winter power cuts: keeping warm safely at home.

Open guide Health Crisis

Outbreaks, overloaded medical services and living with restrictions.

Open guide Food Crisis

High prices, shortages of staple foods and how to stretch the pantry.

Open guide Supply Crisis

Broken supply chains, empty shelves and disrupted transport.

Open guide Energy Crisis

Long blackouts, fuel shortages and rates that spike.

Open guide Power Blackout

Outages lasting hours or days: food, water, medication, communication and work without power.

Open guide Solar Flare

Geomagnetic storms that can disrupt GPS, radio and power grids. What the G1–G5 scale means and how to prepare without alarm.

Open guide Meteorite Impact

What changes with the size of the object and whether it falls on land or at sea. Four scenarios, from an airburst to an extinction-level impact.

Open guide Nuclear Attack

What to do in a nuclear detonation or radiological emergency: shelter, decontaminate, and how long to stay inside.

Open guide Infrastructure Crisis

Failures in water, internet, phone service, roads or public utilities.

Open guide Combined Crisis

When several crises happen at once and feed into each other.

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