Your block, ready together
When the power’s out, neighbors check on each other first. Start your block’s group in four steps.
Start your block’s group
0 of 4 donePick the app your neighbors already use.
Create it in WhatsApp
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Run a 30-minute first meeting
A driveway or a video call works. Tick each part as you go.
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A block directory and a waiting list (so nobody has to go first alone) open later this season with optional sign-in. Until then, the captain shares the invite link.
- What it is
- A four-step starter for a block storm group, plus a 30-minute first-meeting agenda.
- Why it’s here
- In a long outage, help usually comes from next door before it comes from anywhere else.
- What it helps with
- Knowing who needs a knock, who has a generator or a ladder, and how to reach everyone fast.
- How to use it
- Pick an app, name the group, create it and paste the link, then tick off the first meeting.
Sacramento County’s Neighbor Helping Neighbor guide: trade contact info, list what you can share, and agree who checks on seniors, people with disabilities, kids and pets. Downed line? Stay back 30 feet and call SMUD at 1-888-456-7683, or 911 if it’s sparking or on fire. Need local services? Call 211.
Neighbors on our street
Join our block’s storm group
We check on each other before and during storms and outages. It’s on WhatsApp.
Group name:
Our ZIP’s storm status, free: braceforit.com/95821