If you go to a shelter:

• Take blankets or sleeping bags, flashlights, special dietary foods, infant needs and lightweight folding chairs.
  
  
• Register every person arriving with you at the shelter.
  
  
• Do not take alcoholic beverages or weapons of any kind to a shelter.
  
• Be prepared to offer assistance to shelter workers if necessary.
  
  
• Stress to all family members their obligation to keep the shelter clean and sanitary.

When disaster strikes, it is typically the American Red Cross that sets up evacuation shelters for those in need.  Click here for the main Red Cross web site where you can enter your zip code and find the Red Cross Chapter nearest you.

Red Cross Chapters in North Carolina

Surry County Chapter, Mount Airy
Piedmont Carolina Chapter, Burlington
Asheville - Mountain Area Chapter, Asheville
Burke County Chapter, Morganton
Cabarrus County Chapter, Concord
Catawba Valley Chapter, Hickory
Orange County Chapter, Chapel Hill
Cleveland County Chapter, Shelby
Coastal Carolina Chapter, New Bern
Highlands Chapter, Fayetteville
Central North Carolina Chapter, Durham
Gaston County Chapter, Gastonia
Greater Carolinas Chapter, Charlotte
Greensboro Chapter, Greensboro
Henderson County Chapter, Hendersonville
High Point-Thomasville Chapter, High Point
Lee County Chapter, Sanford
Lenoir County Chapter, Kinston
Northwest North Carolina Chapter, Winston-salem
Onslow County Chapter, Jacksonville
Greater Albemarle Area Chapter, Elizabeth City
Pitt County Chapter, Greenville
Polk County Chapter, Columbus
Rockingham County Chapter, Reidsville
Twin Rivers Chapter, Rocky Mount
Elizabeth H. Dole Chapter, Salisbury
Stanly County Chapter, Albemarle
Transylvania County Chapter, Brevard
Triangle Area Chapter, Raleigh
Union County Chapter, Monroe
Watauga County Chapter, Boone
Cape Fear Chapter, Wilmington

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