Bainbridge Prepares
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Making Bainbridge Island the most resilient town in Washington State.
Topic 1: Water. Let us help you get ready!
Prepare in a Year 26: Water — Bainbridge Prepares
We’re starting our Prepare in a Year 26 program with water because, without it, you’re not going to last very long after a disaster.
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January 1, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Topic 1: Water. Let us help you get ready!
Prepare in a Year 26 starts now!
Prepare in a Year 2026!!! — Bainbridge Prepares
Prepare in a Year 26 starts now. You can take care of all of your worries about being prepared for disasters by following our monthly readiness program, which tackles one topic per month.
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January 1, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Prepare in a Year 26 starts now!
Goodbye 2025, Hello Resilience
How to Increase Your Resilience in 2026 — Bainbridge Prepares
The Dumpster Fire of 2025 is coming to an end. We can hope for a better 2026, but there will certainly be more natural and unnatural disasters near and/or far in the upcoming year.
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December 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Goodbye 2025, Hello Resilience
Knock on a few doors this holiday season.
This Season, Reach out to Your Neighbors — Bainbridge Prepares
The two most important things you can do to prepare for emergencies are to ready your household and connect with your neighbors.
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December 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Knock on a few doors this holiday season.
If you absolutely have to drive through the mountain passes, read this.
Traveling Through Snow — Bainbridge Prepares — Bainbridge Prepares
After our series of atmospheric rivers, we are now being gifted with blizzards in the Cascades and Olympics. Try not to travel through the mountain passes, but if you must then be sure to add these it...
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December 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
If you absolutely have to drive through the mountain passes, read this.
A reminder about rules regarding downed wires.
Don’t Touch That! — Bainbridge Prepares
With the wind whipping us all over the place today, it seems like a good time to remind everyone about Bainbridge Island Fire Department and Puget Sound Energy rules regarding downed wires:
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December 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
A reminder about rules regarding downed wires.
Need gift ideas?
Your Guide to Emergency-Ready Holiday Gifts — Bainbridge Prepares
Nothing says I love you and care about you quite like the gift of emergency preparedness. Show your family and friends this holiday season that you’re thinking about them by giving them something they...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Need gift ideas?
Your help can make a difference.
How to Help Our Fellow Washingtonians — Bainbridge Prepares
More than 70,000 (possibly as many as 100,000) people have been given evacuation orders during the current flooding of rivers in western Washington. All 10,000 residents of Burlington were asked to ev...
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December 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Your help can make a difference.
Live in a low-lying area? The City has sandbags.
King Tides and a Whole Heckuvalotta Rain — Bainbridge Prepares
The National Weather Service is predicting heavy rain for the next six days at least. The rainfall is coinciding with King Tides, between today and December 9. This combination puts low-lying areas at...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Live in a low-lying area? The City has sandbags.
Got MYN FOMO?
Learn All About Map Your Neighborhood at the Library — Bainbridge Prepares
On Bainbridge Island, we use the Map Your Neighborhood (MYN) Program to help neighborhoods organize and prepare for disasters. To date, more than 54 percent of households on Bainbridge have gone thr...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Got MYN FOMO?
The last Prepare in a Year activity of 2025!
Prepare in a Year 2025: Neighborhood and Community — Bainbridge Prepares
Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can ...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The last Prepare in a Year activity of 2025!
Community partnerships feeding Bainbridge Islanders
‘Grow for Helpine’ Yields 3,000 Pounds of Food: Pinup Photos — Bainbridge Prepares
The partnership between Bainbridge Island Fruit Club and the BP Food Resilience Team , an initiative called Grow for Helpline , generated more than 3,000 pounds of food for Helpline House i...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Community partnerships feeding Bainbridge Islanders
We are grateful for our resilient community, our hundreds of dedicated volunteers, and our prepared neighborhoods!
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We are grateful for our resilient community, our hundreds of dedicated volunteers, and our prepared neighborhoods!
Oops, we did it again.
BP Wins Another National Award — Bainbridge Prepares
Last Week in Lousiville, at the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) Conference, Bainbridge Island Emergency Manager Anne LeSage and BP Program Director Pascal Schuback received the ...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Oops, we did it again.
Congrats, South Whidbey Prepares!
BP Sister Org. ‘South Whidbey Prepares’ Launches Website — Bainbridge Prepares
Terra Anderson of South Whidbey Prepares (SWP) reached out to tell us that their organization’s website went live on November 16. SWP is modeled after Bainbridge Prepares.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Congrats, South Whidbey Prepares!
Bravo!
BP Honors Its Amazing Volunteers — Bainbridge Prepares
On October 3, Bainbridge Prepares threw its annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner at Kiana Lodge. About 100 guests gathered to reocognize the very special contributions of a few notable BP volunteers.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Bravo!
South End throws a party!
South End Readies Together: Photo Gallery — Bainbridge Prepares
On October 5th, a sunny day, more than 150 south end Islanders gathered at their Disaster Hub—Fort Ward Community Hall—to tour the Hub.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
South End throws a party!
November's Prepare in a Year activity!
Prepare in a Year 2025: Training and Education — Bainbridge Prepares
Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can ...
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November 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
November's Prepare in a Year activity!
Want to support the Helpline House food pantry?
BI Steps Up in Response to SNAP Funding Expiration — Bainbridge Prepares
Friends of the Farms is seeking another round of funding for its Share the Harvest program in response to a rise in food insecurity.
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November 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Want to support the Helpline House food pantry?
Join us Thursday night at the Lynwood Theatre!
Don’t Be Scared . . . Be Prepared! Movie Night — Bainbridge Prepares
This Thursday, October 30, Lynwood Theatre is hosting a special screening of three scary movies in partnership with Bainbridge Prepares. The theme of the night is that there are scary events in life, ...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Join us Thursday night at the Lynwood Theatre!
It's that time again. Are you ready!
Heavy Rain + Wind = Power Outages — Bainbridge Prepares
It’s that time of year when the winds pick up and, if combined with soggy ground, trees fall. So let’s get ready for power outages.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It's that time again. Are you ready!
Where will the food come from?
Food! In a Disaster, How Are You Going to Eat? — Bainbridge Prepares
Your food questions will be answered by the Bainbridge Prepares Food Resilience Team at an October 21st presentation at the library. The Food Resilience Team will share information about flexible fo...
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October 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Where will the food come from?
Get ready to rumble!
Are You Ready to Rumble? — Bainbridge Prepares
Tomorrow, October 16, is the Great Shakeout, that one day every year on which we have the opportunity to share communitywide the experience of practicing for the biggest disaster we are likely to face...
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October 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Get ready to rumble!
Thank you, Iggy's
We Know You're Jealous of How Good We Look in Hair Nets — Bainbridge Prepares
Preserving the harvest from local farms or your own garden is a community resilience skill. Doing so with healthy, long-storing fermentation goes way beyond dilling pickles. The BP Food...
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October 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Thank you, Iggy's