Natural Disasters: Be Prepared – The best way to be prepared for hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and earthquakes is to protect yourself and your family with pre-training and a full emergengy survival kit. Being prepared is essential to acting quickly before and during a natural disaster. This site acts as a guide to help you prepare for unexpected disasters in advance.
Table of Contents
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) offers free brochures on preparing for natural disasters. Call 800-480-2520, or go to the FEMA website, www.fema.gov
- After a Flood: The First Steps and Repairing Your Flooded Home
- Earthquake Safety Checklist and Activities for Children
- Safety Tips for Hurricanes
- Hurricane Safety Tips (card)
- Survival in a Hurricane (wallet card)
- Tornado Safety Tips and Shelter Building
- Disaster Preparedness for People With Disabilities
- Emergency Food and Water Supplies
- Your Family Disaster Plan and Your Family Disaster Supplies Kit
- Pictures of Alex
- What are the risks of a disaster
- Avalanches
- What to to do in case of an avalanche
- How to prepare against Wildfires
- How to Protect or Prepare for Landslides
- How to Prepare for Floods
- What to do During a Flood
- How to Cleanup and Restore or Recover from Flood Damage
- Preparing for a Storm Surges
- Types of severe storms
- Prepare for a Severe Storm
- How to Prepare and What to do in case of Blizzard
- How to Prepare and What to do in case of Hail Storm
- How to Prepare and What to do in case of Ice Storm
- How to Prepare and What to do in case of Lightning or Thunderstorm
- How to Prepare and What to do in case of Tornadoes
- How to Prepare and What to do in case of Earthquakes
- Before an earthquake : Verification list to prepare your household for an earthquake
- What to do in During an earthquake
- What to do in After an earthquake
- Prepare and Protect in case of Bomb threat
- Handling a Suspicious Package
- What to do in Case Chemical Spill
- How to Protect from Nuclear Disaster
- Preparing for Power Outage
- What to do During a power outage
- Home Power Generator
- How to evacuate house in winter
- What to do After power outage and electricity returns
- Making an emergency plan
- Buying a Basic Emergency Kit
- Emergency kit for the car
- What to do After an Emergency
- Who takes charge during an emergency?
- Is it safe to use candles inside in case of emergency?
- In case of emergency, what amount of water will I need, and how can I keep this water in a safe way?
- What stations should an emergency radio be able to pickup, i.e. AM/FM and SW or Weather Alert?
- Can I use my camping gas stove inside in case of emergency?
- In case of extended power outage, how can I heat my house in a safe way?
- In case of emergency, what can I do with my pets?
- What is a grab-and-go emergency kit?
- If I am at work when an emergency situation occurs, what do I need to do?
- Medication for emergency kit
- List non perishable foods for emergency kit
- Carefully preparing to survive 72 hours
- Family preparedness
- How to get Involved in Community preparedness
- How Emergency management works
- How to survive to an earthquake of important magnitude
- Acting in accidents and catastrophes
- After Thunder Storms
- After a hurricane or flood: Cleaning after a flood
- After a landslide or rubble detachment
- After a tornado
- After an earthquake
- After the Fire: Going Back to Normal
- After the tornado
- Avoid carbon monoxide intoxication
- Background
- Basic rules for trap use
- Before Thunder Storms and Lightning
- Before a landslide or rubble detachment
- Before a tornado: How to plan
- Before extreme heat
- Building a shelter I
- Building a shelter II
- CARBON MONOXIDE:
- CAUSES OF A TSUNAMI
- CHEMICAL PRODUCTS
- Chemical and Biological Weapons
- Chimney Stoves and Fire Safety at Home
- Collapse and Rubble
- Diseases Caused by Heat
- Diseases related to cold
- During a Heat emergency
- During a Hurricane
- During a Volcanic Eruption
- During a Winter Storm
- During an Earthquake
- During the Fire
- During: Thunder Storms
- EMERGENCIES DURING MASSIVE TRANSPORTATION
- EMERGENCY INFORMATION AT HOME
- Earthquake Terms
- Earthquakes
- Electricity related topics
- Emergency in a Nuclear Plant
- Emergency supplies you will need
- Evacuation plan
- Extreme Cold
- Extreme Heat:
- FIRE RISKS DURING AND AFTER A FLOOD
- FIRE SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS
- Facts and figures
- Fall prevention
- Fire I
- Fire Safety in the Bedroom Allows Sleeping Peacefully at Night
- Fire with improvised methods
- Fires
- First aid
- Floods
- Guidelines for treating acute diarrhea
- HAVE A CLEAR PLAN IN CASE OF A FIRE
- HEAVY EQUIPMENT:
- HISTORY
- HOW IS A HURRICAN ORIGINATED?
- Hand hygiene in emergency situations
- Hazardous Material Incide
- Health and Hygiene
- Heat fatigue
- House damage inspection
- How to protect yourself and others from electric shock risks after a natural disaster
- How to reduce risks at home
- How to return home after a flood
- Hurricanes Safety and health
- Hurricanes: Learn the Terms
- If a disaster happens in your area how will you survive during 72 hours?
- If your home suffered flood damage
- Important advice
- Important information to be prepared when facing a flood
- Injury prevention after a disaster
- Inland Flooding
- Inspecting your home
- Keep food and water in good shape after a natural disaster or power failure
- LARGEST RECENT TSUNAMIS
- LEGENDS
- Learn the Terms
- Learn the Terms for Winter Storms and Extreme Cold
- More information about winter
- Orientation techniques: How to find your way without a map or compass
- Outdoor precautions
- People with special needs
- Prepare for an earthquake
- Prepare to communicate after the disaster
- Preparing for evacuation
- Protect your home
- Protect yourself
- Protect yourself from chemical products released during a natural disaster
- Recovering after a hurricane
- Rodent control after hurricanes and floods
- Seasonal Fire Safety
- Survival equipment for your home
- TIPS FOR ELDERLY AND HANDICAPPED PEOPLE
- TIPS FOR PARENTS
- The Safety Circuit
- Thunder Storm Terms
- Thunder Storms
- Tornado Facts
- Tornado Terms
- Tornadoes
- Trench foot or immersion foot
- Tsunamis
- Types of shelters
- VOLCANOES THAT HAVE ERUPTED
- Violence prevention after a natural disaster
- Volcanoes
- WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE WITH WHAT WE CALL “SURGES”?
- WHAT TO DO IN A TSUNAMI?
- WHEN THE DISASTER IS PRODUCED
- WORK IN CONFINED SPACES
- Water
- What to do Before a Forest Fire
- What to do after a flood
- What to do after an Emergency in a Nuclear Power Plant
- What to do before a tsunami
- What to do during a tsunami
- What to do if you get lost
- What to do when you see a tornado
- What you need to know in case of an unexpected blackout
- Winter Storms
- Worker safety after a flood
- Wound care during an emergency