Calamity, Awareness and Preparedness: How Ready and Prepared You Are?

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Are you a whales, witness, minnows, orcas, or dolphins in steemit? Or just an ordinary person, rich or poor. Everyone, anyone, whoever and what you are, you are a victim!

Yes indeed! You read it loud and clear. Because when nature call and strike no one is safe, and it doesnt choose whom it will hit.

In today's time climate change is indeed happen. Environment have changed a lot since destructive activity have been made not knowing or just by ignoring by those who done it for their own gained. Mother nature cries but only are few heard and act to save.

Calamity and different catasthropy suddenly happen. When a sudden calamity occurs to a specific country, or an area where it is arrive nobody is safe, no one is exempted for if natures strikes it hits everyone in it. It does'nt made any choices everyone is a victim.

There are many kinds of calamity that occured and if this happen how prepared you are? Are you prepared when typhoons come? How ready you are when earthquake strikes or when flood arrives? This are only few of natures natural ways of letting us know what have we done to our mother nature.

Here are some tips and advice when those disaster will suddenly happen. What we should do and what to prepared in times like this.

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Different kinds of calamity and the preparedness needed to do.

Typhoon

A typhoon is one strong winds that moves in circle, that mostly comes with a strong and heavy rainfall. The typhoon is a giant tornado. In typhoons eye there is no wind, but in its eyewall it is where the strong winds occured.

In Philippines we have this what we called PAGASA (Philippines Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services. And in every city we have the DRRMO (Disaster Risks Reduction Management Office). They are the one who is responsible to issued and relay the following information.

Public Storm Warning Signal (PSWS) - is a warnings issued in PAGASA (Philippines Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration) to let know how strong is the typhoon that is coming, and the location of it when the time it was issued by PSWS, and to where is the approximate way and what preparation is to be done or what else to do with the affected community where the typhoon is going to hit.

• PSW Signal number #1 - winds with the strenght from 30-60 kph. The typhoon is expected within 36 hours.

• PSW Signal number #2 - winds with the strenght from 61-100 kph. The typhoon is expected within 24 hours.

• PSW Signal number #3 - winds with the strenght from 100-185 kph. The typhoon is expected to come within 18 hours.

• PSW Signal number #4 - a very strong winds more than 185 kph. Typhoon is expected within 12 hours.

Things to do before the storm arrives:

1. Prepared the radio, flashlight and extra batteries.

2. Get ready for an emergency food that is not immediately destroyed like (can goods, biscuits) water container, first aid kit and clothes that can be first used and also plastic wrapper.

3. And make sure that the house rope and windows can cope when the strong winds blow (for the household in a poor community, just also make sure that the pillars and walls of your houses can stand the strong winds by tying up and nailing it up);

4. Cut the long branches of tree near of your house.

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Things to do during the storm:

1. Make it a habit to listen to the radio or watch tv news for the regular announcement or warning about the storm coming or found it out in the neighborhood.

2. Make it sure that you have something for an emergency use that is stored in a waterproof container.

3. Fill the water container, put your extra clothes into a plastic bag, canned goods, candles, matches, batteries, and some other important things.

4. Beware in the storm eye, this is the sudden stop of the wind and rain, the surroundings of one area is calmed. This is a signed that after almost 2 hours it will retured with much heavier wind and rain;

5. Stay inside of the house until the storm ends;

6. When it is needed to evacuate, make sure that the power supply in the house is turned off, the gas tank are closed, and the door is lock.

7. And don't forget to bring the emergency items.

Source:
http://www.academia.edu/9346146/Mga_uri_ng_kalamidad_at_mga_kailangan_paghahanda_na_dapat_gawin