What to do in case of hurricane?

Before

• Go to the unit of civil defense or the local authorities to know:
• If the zone in which it lives is subject to hurricanes.
• What places will be used for shelters.
• Average what will provide the emergency messages to him.
• Report how many people live in their house, patients, blind or invalid.
• If its house is fragile (straw or material resemblances), anticipates a shelter (school, church, or municipal palace).
• Repair ceilings, windows and walls to avoid greater damages.
• Quédese in its house if she is safe or it trasladese to the already predicted shelter.
• But the authorities recommend to evacuate the house where it lives, Hágalo!

If it remains in his house

• Have at the hand articles of emergency, abrigadora and impermeable clothes.
• Maintain the radio ignited.
• Closing doors and windows, protects crystals with sticky tape.
• Keep the objects that can send the wind.
• Clear hanging antennas, labels or other objects.
• Cover with plastic apparatuses or objects that can be damaged with the water.
• Clean the roof, water-drainages, channels and coslopes.
• Fill the gasoline tank of his vehicle and asegúrese of the good state of his battery.
• Seal with mixture the cover of his well or rain tank to have water reserve noncontaminated.

During

• Conserve the calm.
• Listen to the radio.
• Disconnect his apparatuses and the switch of electrical energy.
• Closing keys of gas and water.
• Aléjese of doors and windows.
• Use lamps of batteries.
• Watch the level of the water near his house.
• It does not leave until the authorities indicate it.

Later

• Follow the instructions emitted by radio or another means.
• If there are wounded, repórtelos.
• Drink the potable water that stored or boils the one that is going to take.
• If its house did not suffer damages, remains there.
• Maintain disconnected the gas, the light and the water until making sure that there is flights nor danger of short no circuit.
• Cerciórese of which their electrical apparatuses are dry before connecting them.
• Use the telephone only for emergencies.
• In necessary case it asks for nearer aid to the aid group or authorities.
• Evacuate the suspended water to avoid plagues of mosquitos.
• If it must leave
• Moved away Manténgase of the disaster areas.
• Avoid to touch or to step on electrical cables.
• Retírese of houses, trees and posts in danger to fall.

Articles for emergencies

• Medicine kit of first aid.
• Radio and lantern of batteries with spare parts.
• Water boiled in packages with cover.
• Tin food and that does not require refrigeration.
• Floaters (cameras of rim or life-guard).
• Personal documents kept in plastic bags.

Fuente: Diario de Yucatán

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