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In addition to reviewing the following materials, it would be wise to take photographs of your home, inside and out, to document your valuables for insurance purposes. Then you will be able to reference those photos in case of theft or damage from natural or manmade disasters.

As for important documents, it is best to keep them in a safe place, ideally in an actual locked safe of some kind. As an example, we use this fire and water resistant file to keep our important documents organized and portable in case we have to evacuate. We found it on amazon at this link. (click on the word "link")

https://www.ready.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/fema_safeguard-critical-documents-and-valuables.pdf

https://www.ready.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/ready_document-and-insure-your-property.pdf

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SCENARIO TO CONSIDER: DAM FAILURE & FLOOD ZONES

I’m sure many of us have looked up at the Castaic Lake Dam and wondered what would happen if it failed. Could an earthquake take it out? Could age, wear, and tear or poor engineering eventually cause it to fail? Could flooding overwhelm it like the Oroville Dam in 2017? The answer is sadly "yes," to all of the above. It can fail. Anything is possible. We should just expect it to and get ready for it. The next question is: where would the water go? This link will send you to the California Department of Water Resource's approved inundation maps if the dam were to fail: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10jp2sQJvvSi6HtEc-jl1zGwc-2a4MTdT/view?usp=sharing Take your time to look at the map and become familiar with it. My first thought when looking at these maps was relief because my home wasn’t in the flood zone but then I realized that almost every possible evacuation route is in the flood path. I would expect the freeway to be heavily damaged from the failure of ...

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