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Are You Ready? Welcome

This guide provides essential information for families to prepare for disasters, including identifying potential hazards in their communities, understanding the importance of disaster planning, and learning how to assemble an emergency supplies kit. It covers specific natural hazards such as floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes, detailing actions to take before, during, and after a disaster strikes. The objectives include developing a family disaster plan, recognizing special planning needs, and understanding recovery steps post-disaster to ensure safety and resilience.

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Are You Ready? Welcome

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  1. Are You Ready? Welcome

  2. Agenda • Introduction • Identifying hazards • Taking protective measures for specific hazards • Creating a family disaster plan • Assembling a disaster supplies kit • Recovering from disaster • Conclusion

  3. Objectives • Identify the disasters that could occur in your communities • Recognize the importance of family disaster planning • Develop a family disaster plan

  4. Objectives • Recognize special planning issues and integrate them into the plan • Assemble a disaster supplies kit that meets your family’s needs • Identify steps to take after disaster strikes

  5. Benefits of Being Prepared • Reduces fear and anxiety • Reduces the impact of disasters • Communities, families, and individuals know what to do

  6. Being Prepared: Communities and Individuals

  7. Part 2: Natural Hazards

  8. Floods

  9. Facts About Floods • One of the most common hazards in the United States • Some floods develop slowly • Flash floods develop quickly • Risks are greater in low-lying areas, near water, or downstream from a dam

  10. Know the Terms • Flood/Flash flood watch—flooding is possible • Flood warning—flooding is occurring or will occur soon • Flash flood warning—a flash flood is occurring; seek higher ground

  11. Before a Flood • Buy flood insurance • Avoid building in a floodplain • Elevate furnace, water heater, and electric panel • Install check valves in sewer traps • Construct barriers • Seal basement walls

  12. During a Flood • Listen to radio or TV for information • Move immediately to high ground • Be aware of streams, drainage channels, and canyons

  13. During a Flood If you have to evacuate, and time permits: • Secure your home • Bring in outdoor furniture • Move essential items to an upper floor • Turn off utilities

  14. During a Flood • Do not walk through moving water • Do not drive into flooded areas

  15. After a Flood • Listen to radio or TV for information • Avoid floodwaters and moving water • Be aware of areas where floodwaters have receded • Stay away from downed power lines

  16. After a Flood • Return home only when authorities indicate it is safe

  17. After a Flood • Use caution when entering buildings • Service damaged septic tanks, cesspools, pits, and leaching systems • Clean and disinfect damaged property

  18. Tornadoes

  19. Facts About Tornadoes • Nature’s most violent storms • Every state is at some risk • Tornadoes may strike quickly with little or no warning • They generally occur near the trailing edge of a thunderstorm

  20. Know the Terms • Tornado watch—tornadoes are possible; remain alert for approaching storms • Tornado warning—a tornado has been sighted or indicated by weather radar; take shelter

  21. Before a Tornado • Consider building a safe room • Be alert to changing weather conditions • Listen to radio or TV for information

  22. Before a Tornado • Look for approaching storms • Look for danger signs: • Dark, greenish sky • Large hail • Large, dark low-lying cloud • Loud roar

  23. During a Tornado • Go to a shelter • Immediately get out of a vehicle, trailer, or mobile home

  24. During a Tornado • If outside, lie flat in a ditch or depression and cover your head • Do not get under an overpass or bridge • Never try to outrun a tornado • Watch out for flying debris

  25. Hurricanes

  26. Facts About Hurricanes • All Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastal areas are subject to hurricanes • Hurricanes can cause catastrophic damage to coastlines and several hundred miles inland • Winds can exceed 155 miles per hour

  27. Facts About Hurricanes • Hurricanes can produce widespread torrential rains • Floods and flash flooding are often deadly and destructive results • Excessive rain can trigger landslides or mud slides

  28. Know the Terms • Tropical depression—an organized system of clouds and thunderstorms • Tropical storm—an organized system of strong thunderstorms

  29. Know the Terms • Hurricane—an intense tropical weather system • Storm surge—a dome of water pushed onshore by a hurricane • Storm tide—a combination of storm surge and normal tide

  30. Know the Terms • Hurricane watch—conditions are possible in a specified area • Hurricane warning—conditions are expected in a specified area • Short term watches and warnings—detailed information about specific threats

  31. Before a Hurricane • Secure your property; install straps to secure your roof to the structure • Trim trees and shrubs around your home • Clear loose and clogged rain gutters and downspouts • Secure boats • Consider building a safe room

  32. Listen to radio or TV for information Secure your home, close storm shutters, secure outdoor objects During a Hurricane

  33. During a Hurricane • Moor boats if time permits • Ensure a water supply for sanitary purposes

  34. During a Hurricane You should evacuate if you: • Are directed to by local authorities • Live in a mobile home, temporary structure, or high-rise building • Live on the coast, floodplain, or inland waterway • Feel you are in danger

  35. During a Hurricane If you are unable to evacuate: • Stay indoors, away from windows • Keep curtains and blinds closed • Seek shelter in a safe room • Absent a safe room, go to: • Small interior, first floor room • Closet or hallway

  36. During a Hurricane If you are unable to evacuate: • Turn off utilities and propane tanks • Avoid using the phone • Close all interior doors • Lie on the floor under a table or sturdy object

  37. Thunderstorms and Lightning

  38. Facts About Thunderstorms • Storms may occur singly, in clusters, or in lines • Storms can be most severe when affecting one location for an extended time • Storms typically produce heavy rain for a brief period

  39. Warm, humid conditions are favorable for storm development Ten percent of storms are severe—high winds and hail Facts About Thunderstorms

  40. Facts About Lightning • Unpredictability increases the risk to individuals and property • Lightning often strikes outside of rainfall • Heat lightning is from a far away storm

  41. Facts About Lightning • Most deaths and injuries occur outside in summer months • Your chance of being struck by lightning: 1 in 600,000 • Lightning strike victims carry no electrical charge and should be attended to immediately

  42. Know the Terms • Severe thunderstorm watch—thunderstorms are likely; listen to radio or TV for information • Severe thunderstorm warning—severe weather has been reported; imminent danger to life and property

  43. Before Thunderstorms and Lightning To prepare for a thunderstorm: • Remove dead or rotting trees • Remember the 30/30 lightning safety rule

  44. Before Thunderstorms and Lightning • Postpone outdoor activities • Get inside a home, building, or hard top automobile • Remember rubber-soled shoes and rubber tires provide no protection

  45. Before Thunderstorms and Lightning • Secure outdoor objects • Shutter windows and secure outside doors

  46. Before Thunderstorms and Lightning • Avoid showering or bathing • Avoid using corded telephones • Unplug appliances • Listen to a battery-operated radio for information

  47. During a Thunderstorm If you are outside: • Avoid natural lightning rods: hilltops, open fields, beaches, or a boat on the water • Avoid isolated sheds or small structures in open areas • Avoid anything metal • Seek shelter in a low area

  48. During Thunderstorms and Lightning If you are on open water: • Get to land and find shelter immediately

  49. During Thunderstorms and Lightning If you feel your hair stand on end: • Squat low to the ground; place hands over ears, head between knees • Make yourself the smallest target possible

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