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How To Survive Disasters without Preparation

What to Do if You Aren’t Ready

Preparation is great if you have time, but life and Mother Nature wait for no one. If you have found yourself in the midst of a disaster without a disaster kit or a plan, the first thing you have to do is to stop and take a deep breath. Calmness and clear thinking are the keys to surviving.

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Here’s How:

Get to safety. If you’re told to evacuate immediately, don’t wait. Get everybody in the car, grab your keys, and go.If you have a few minutes to pack for an evacuation, take identification, cash, prescription medications, blankets or sleeping bags and any bottled water you have on hand. Put on underwear, socks, long pants, two shirts, sturdy shoes and take a coat, even in the summer. Read the rest of this entry »

Packing a Disaster Evacuation Kit

The type of disaster kit you should make depends on your needs. If you’re in an area likely to be evacuated, pack your disaster kit in boxes for the road. If you’re likely to be stuck at home without water or power, storing a “kit” really just means dedicating a few shelves to disaster supplies. Of course, it’s always a good idea to have a plan to pack your supplies quickly and easily into the car for a quick getaway.

It may seem overwhelming to pack an entire disaster evacuation kit at once. The trick is to break the kit into smaller bites. Start with water and food supplies, then move on to other items. Concentrate on each section until you have what you need before moving to the next. Read the rest of this entry »

Risk Reduction and Emergency Preparedness

WHO supports countries in building national capacity in risk reduction and emergency preparedness, and to assist the health sector in Member States in reducing the adverse public health consequences for communities in terms of mortality, morbidity, disability and damage to health care delivery services resulting from emergencies, disasters and other crises.

Priority areas

Assessing and monitoring baseline information on the status of risk reduction and emergency preparedness in the health sector at regional and country levels.
Institutionalizing risk reduction and emergency preparedness programmes in ministries of health and establishing an effective all-hazard/whole-health programme for this purpose
Encouraging and supporting community-based risk reduction and emergency preparedness programmes
Improving knowledge and skills in risk reduction and emergency preparedness and response in the health sector. Read the rest of this entry »

Disaster Supplies for Your Home

Some places are pretty safe to live. The East Coast has hurricanes and the West Coast has earthquakes. Tornadoes and thunderstorms plague the Plains. Floods and fires seem to be everywhere. Dotted around the country, however, are those places with little to worry about except the occasional rock falling from space or a garden-variety power outage.

If you live in an area where the most disastrous thing that can happen involves losing cellular phone service or pizza delivery, there’s really no reason to pack a disaster evacuation kit. However, if Murphy’s Law is to be believed, disasters are coming, like it or not.

To get ready to hunker down in your home for an extended period of “roughing it” without power or water, you need to have a few supplies on hand. Read the rest of this entry »

Disaster Preparedness

If the greatest disaster threat in your neighborhood is the cancellation of the annual block party barbecue, you may not think preparing for a natural or man-made disaster is worth your time. Unfortunately, the need to be prepared isn’t just for those of us living in earthquake country or the tornado belt.

The truth is regardless where you live, disasters can affect you. You may not be the family hit by the tornado or the earthquake directly, but you could lose power or water from nearby catastrophes. Not to mention, as we all learned on September 11, 2001, not all disasters are natural.

So, whether you’re planning for a plain old power failure, natural disaster, the next ice age or an attack by space aliens, it’s not a bad idea to have a bit of food and water tucked away as well as a plan for staying safe and healthy when regular services just aren’t available. Read the rest of this entry »