Pre-disaster education system

A pre-disaster education system, comprising:

• a system controller including:
• a device processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by the device processor to perform the following steps:
• receiving location data from a personal electronic device of a user;
• receiving forecast data regarding a predicted disaster;
• receiving data from one or more third parties, wherein the one or more third parties includes a shelter organization and the data from one or more third parties includes vacancy information from the shelter organization;
• and
• automatically sending an educational message to the personal electronic device of the user, based on the location data, the forecast data, and the vacancy information;
• wherein the computer readable medium further includes instructions for receiving purchase data regarding purchases made by the user within a predetermined period of time prior to the making of the determination of an educational message to be sent.

A method for pre-disaster education, comprising:

• performing the following steps by executing instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium with a device processor:
• receiving location data from a personal electronic device of a user;
• receiving forecast data regarding a predicted disaster;
• receiving data from one or more third parties, wherein the one or more third parties includes a shelter organization and the data from one or more third parties includes vacancy information from the shelter organization;
• automatically making a determination that an educational message should be sent to the personal electronic device of the user, based on the location data, the forecast data, and the vacancy information;
• and
• sending the educational message to the personal electronic device of the user at a predetermined time relative to the predicted time of occurrence of the predicted disaster;
• and
• further including receiving purchase data regarding purchases made by the user within a predetermined period of time prior to the making of the determination of an educational message to be sent.