Dear Citizens and Guests of the town! Being a Director for Health, it is my duty to inform you about all the threats and hazards you may confront during the time of the hurricanes and storms. Provided that the weather service is forecasting a hurricane on 28th of August which will be accompanied with a heavy rain and a strong wind every person need to know the safety rules of the behaviour during the stormy weather.
There are several pre-hurricane actions that should be done before the bad weather. It means that each person has to take some precautions for not to be caught without any communication and supplies ("Make a Plan|Hurricanes", 2016). First of all everyone should provide your house and vehicle with an additional emergency supply kit that contains enough food, water and medicine. You should also make some small pieces of paper with emergency numbers on it and keep them near your home phones ("Make a Plan|Hurricanes", 2016).
Such an emergency phone should also be written down in your mobile, but sometimes the strong wind may damage the communication lines so it is not always an option. Make sure that your house is equipped with a fire extinguisher and every member of your family know where it is hidden and how to make use of it in the cases of starting the fire. If you feel, that you are not safe anymore in your house, feel free to come to the city shelter which is situated in the building of the Elementary school at 125 Main Street. You will be informed about the coming of the hurricane with the help of city`s siren, so make sure that every resident of your house knows how to behave in case it goes off.
As for the content of the supplies and emergency kits, there are some things that need to be clarified.
List of the goods you need to pack
So your emergency backpack should contain("Get Supplies|Hurricanes", 2016):
Enough clean water to drink for a few days
Enough canned food, that won't spoil to quick, to eat for a few days
First aid kit
Radio that is powered by small accumulator or batteries so you want stay with no means of communication when the energy goes off.
Torchlight with the extra pack of batteries
Sleeping bags
Personal care products
That is why we want every citizen always to look for any alert reports on TV, radio or the internet. We will surely announce the hurricane watch two days before the hurricane will probably start. The announcement means that it is just the time to make all the necessary preparations and took all the precautions mentioned above.The moment of announcing the hurricane warning is the moment when it is recommended not to go outside or only head to our shelter.
So the first step when you hear the hurricane watch is revision of the whole evacuation plan with your family and making sure everyone knows the place of location of the emergency kit, the ways of communication and the rules of behaving at the time of such disaster ("Get Your Family, Home, and Car Ready|Hurricanes", 2016).
Then you should prepare your house for the confrontation with the hurricane by cleaning your front yard from all the movable objects which can do some damage to your family or your house, cover all the windows with the help of various storm shutters in order not to be injured by broken glass, clean all the possible containers with the water you may use for drinking and preparing food in case the water system broke off. Your cars or other vehicles should have a full gas tank and taking under the cover.
References
Get Supplies|Hurricanes. (2016). Bt.cdc.gov. Retrieved 7 April 2016, from http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/supplies.asp
Get Your Family, Home, and Car Ready|Hurricanes. (2016). Bt.cdc.gov. Retrieved 7 April 2016, from http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/preparedness.asp
Make a Plan|Hurricanes. (2016). Bt.cdc.gov. Retrieved 7 April 2016, from http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/plan.asp
