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After a major disaster, most of our normal methods of communication will be interrupted. Telephones will be out, the mail will not be delivered (you may not have a home to deliver it to), or you may be isolated at work and unable to travel to your family. Immediately after an earthquake, your phones will probably not work. This is because of damages to switching centers, local phone lines, and trunk lines. It could be that power to operate the phones systems itself is unavailable.

Your family may not be together when disaster strikes, so plan how you will contact one another and review what you will do in different situations.

Family communication is much more than just the exchange of words between family members. It is what we say, how we say it, why we say it, when we say it, and what we neglect to say. It is our facial expressions, our gestures, our posture, our vocal tones. Communication includes both verbal and nonverbal language. Words are the basic tools of verbal language. However, nonverbal language has many components such as: • posture and body position • facial expressions • tone of voice • gestures and mannerisms • behavior and actions