NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER FAMILY DISASTER PLAN
BEFORE A HURRICANE COMES KNOCKING
ON YOUR DOOR
PREPARE A FAMILY DISASTER PLAN
NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
FAMILY DISASTER PLAN
1. Discuss the type of hazards that could affect your family.
2. Know your home's vulnerability to storm surge, flooding and wind.
3. Locate a safe room or the safest areas in your home for each hurricane
hazard. In certain circumstances the safest areas may not be your home
but within your community.
4. Determine escape routes from your home and places to meet.
These should be measured in tens of miles rather than hundreds of miles.
5. Have an out-of-state friend as a family contact, so all your family
members have a single point of contact.
6. Make a plan now for what to do with your pets if you need to evacuate.
7. Post emergency telephone numbers by your phones and make sure your children know how and when to call 911.
8. Check your insurance coverage - flood damage is not usually covered by homeowners insurance.
9. Stock non-perishable emergency supplies and a Disaster Supply Kit.
10. Use a NOAA weather radio. Remember to replace its battery every 6
months, as you do with your smoke detectors.
11. Take First Aid, CPR and disaster preparedness classes.
The above from the NHC, presumably the expert in hurricane preparedness suggests strategies to cope with impending disaster. All of these are important issues which the prudent family should think about. However since this is my football I'm going to add some things.
The greatest hazard, often ignored, is moving water not wind as it's much denser than air and washes away everything in its path. This is why insurance companies are reluctant to write flood policies. If you live near the sea or even miles up some creek or river you should pay close attention to the topography surrounding your home or boat. Water pushed inland by storm surge, a product of wind direction and strength, can move far from the sea and suddenly erupt out of the protection of river's banks and engulf everything in its path, including escape routes, often in a matter of minutes leaving your family stranded in a possibly life threatening position.
The NHC plan also suggests a battery powered radio to receive weather bulletins. They have some with a handle that you can rotate to produce electricity eliminating even the need for batteries.
As far as I know no weather forecast mentions wind direction and strength at your front door but using the non-electronic, sans batteried HURRICANE FINDER you can determine its direction and strength and save this data as a picture of the storm prepared days in advance. Now when the broadcast tower fails due to wind damage and your handy battery or hand powered radio is useful only as a paper weight you can use it to hold down your Hurricane Finder.
Hurricane Finder takes preparedness several steps further past governmental and media influence and puts your family's safety in the best hands possible, yours.
Using this simple device you can track the hurricane's eye in real time with only a compass and the device without reliance on anything else, and your pictures of the storm prepared days in advance from forecasts by the experts at NHC will still be there when all else fails.
Self reliance is a good thing. Be fully prepared with this easy to use device.
HURRICANE FINDER MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE WHEN ELECTRONICS FAIL.
JUST A LITTLE BORED
Take care,
JB
Thanks for the plan, it's a life savior and there are thousands of people who need it. I wonder how many of those people living in high risk areas are actually aware of all these aspects? Seeing them crying every year on the news year makes me realize that these people are never prepared to face a natural disaster although they are aware of the risks.
http://www.seenation.com/view_full_news_details.php?newsid=76932
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Gary thank you for your comment. If you've read my entries on Hurricane Fay and Ike you know I live on a sailboat. I've survived through much adversity by thinking of the what-ifs and preparing for them. This involves planning and making sure I have the right equipment and back-ups for that equipment.
Government is not the sole protector and provider. There are times when circumstances and forces of nature take us back to the stone age where we must take care of ourselves. A catch phrase often said here at Global Weather Solutions is, "Hurricane Finder may save your live when electronics fail."
Hape a disaster plan, make it with input from family members, give everyone a job, particularly children which builds self-esteem and creates personality traits they will carry on to adulthood. This is the way to build a self reliant society.
Get supplies and act on that plan at least 24 hours before anyone else thinks of it. The Boy Scouts taught us this years ago. Be prepared.
Thanks Gary for your kind words.
Take Care,
JB
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