Natural disasters like the tsunami are difficult to predict. It’s good with a warning from Meteorological Agency, we still must be vigilant. Check out some steps to save yourself and family from the dangers of tsunami, as quoted from emergencyzone.org.
1. Contact your local security management office or Red Cross. Find out information on whether the zone where you live has become an area prone to tsunamis. Know also the high street where you live, the higher the land surface in your area, to estimate the distance between the sea with home / where you are. Evacuation will be more mature if you already have done a rough calculation of the things mentioned earlier.
2. If the child was in school, find out who carried out the evacuation plan from the school. Are you required to independently collect the child or the school to evacuate the whole school to another location? The route from school to home and vice versa could be hampered by traffic jams or road closure.
3. Plan evacuation routes from home, school, workplace or other places away from the arrival of the tsunami flow. Go to a plateau as high as possible. Altitude 30 meters above sea level and distance of more than three miles from the coast is expected to be a safe distance. Make sure you can reach the plateau on foot within 15 minutes.
4. Make sure the route that has you thinking that you want can be done at night in poor lighting or bad weather did not support the evacuation. In an emergency, thinking clearly difficult to do so make sure the route was easily passed without much roadblock / obstacles.
5. Discuss the condition of the tsunami with your family. Explain if they can separate from each other at any time. Each family member should know the first thing to do when they separate, i.e. save you first. With the discussion and preparation, a sense of worry and fear can be muted. In this case, find out the guidelines deal with flood hazards as a first step.
6. Prepare the first equipment to deal with natural disasters. Make sure there is mineral water for each family member to survive at least for three days, medications to individual buoys. In an emergency, do not think too much about the property, but the focus of life should be saved. If possible, you can still enter the securities in a plastic bag and wrap barkeep behind the clothes.
7. If the tsunami had entered the zone near the city you live, auto road is closed a lot of junk or flooded. Be prepared to use your foot through the obstacles that exist on the road. Follow the evacuation route that has been provided by local officials (if any) to avoid standing water which was a hole in / ravine. Find out if your local firefighters have set up an evacuation area and impassable roads that are considered safe.
8. Follow the news channel portal that is accessible via mobile phone, if the provider communication has been lost, you should bring portable radios to monitor the latest information about weather and complex disasters such as fires caused by the tsunami until crash electricity.
Is your residence community is ready with preventive measures and evacuation? Make sure you always stay connected with the local rescue management. However, rescue collaboration involving many people would be more supportive of business than personal salvation.
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