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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Gatwick fury, floods and power cuts



24 December 2013
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BBC weather forecaster Peter Gibbs has the forecast for the Christmas period



Travellers have voiced anger and frustration after flooding at a Gatwick Airport power station led to cancelled flights and ruined Christmas plans.


Passengers left stranded at the airport have described scenes of “absolute confusion” and “heartbroken” families.


Thousands of homes, mostly in southern England, are facing Christmas morning without power after stormy weather lashed the UK.


And residents in Surrey and Kent are facing serious flood warnings.


The River Mole in Surrey has burst its banks in several areas.


There is an Environment Agency severe flood warning – which means a danger to life – at the Mole at Leatherhead, with already high levels of water expected to peak around midnight.


A “multi-agency response” to flooding is also taking place in Godalming on the River Wey.


The Environment Agency said the River Medway in Kent had continued to rise and flood risks would continue for three days.









Steve Wood said the flood waters had reached houses on the High Street in Tonbridge, Kent



Kent Police said the river had flooded areas from Tonbridge to Allington, with Mereworth and Yalding badly affected.


Emergency services have started evacuating people from their homes in Tonbridge.


Surrey Fire and Rescue tweeted just before 22:00 GMT to say “many rescues” were being made due to the floods.




“Cold and hungry”


Anne Coleman and her 83-year-old husband from the village of Brenchley in Kent have been without power for 24 hours.


“The freezer was absolutely full,” she said. “But now it’s full of soggy food.”


They had been preparing to host parties for friends and family.


Now, Mrs Coleman said, she was not sure what they were going to do.


They have no means to cook food and one wood burner to heat the house.


“People have been very helpful and kind, but most of our neighbours are away or hosting big family parties.”


She said that while she understood these incidents can happen, “there was no suggestion the power would be off this long”.


UK Power Networks supplies power to the area. It said it is aiming to have everyone switched on by the end of Boxing Day.



The power cut at Gatwick’s north terminal was caused by flooding on the Mole which affected airfield substations and saw more than 30 flights cancelled.


All departures, apart from British Airways, were switched to the South terminal.


Around 90 flights are due to leave Gatwick on Christmas Day – including some services rescheduled from Tuesday – and no delays are anticipated, although passengers are advised to check with their airlines before setting off for the airport.


Gatwick said: “Due to adverse weather in the last 48 hours there are still power outages in parts of our North Terminal. These are causing delays to departing flights and our engineers are on site rectifying this.”


It added that all flights would continue to be operated through the South Terminal except for British Airways.




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Joe Pattinson, 35, from Wokingham in Surrey, had been due to fly from Gatwick to Barcelona but has ended up returning home.


“It was absolute confusion,” he said.


“We’d been waiting for three hours in the queue. There was no information and we couldn’t find anyone to explain what we should be doing. Eventually three armed police turned up to try and calm people down.


“Lots of people were getting angry and shouting, they were booing the police and arguing with each other.”


Jamie Whiteford arrived at Gatwick at 05:30 on Christmas Eve and spent more than 12 hours waiting at the airport for his flight to Edinburgh to depart before it was eventually cancelled.


“Flights around us began to cancel despite being told they were waiting on the buses to transport them and the aircraft were ready.


“Eventually all were cancelled and this caused angry scenes at a flight to Naples which involved a police presence and very confused and untrained staff.


“As I work in the very top end of customer service in central London, I am appalled and disgusted that no one came even admit to fault. It has only angered people more. The faces on families is heartbreaking.”



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The Energy Networks Association said about 75,000 homes were still without power across the UK after “notable collisions” along power lines during the stormy weather.


Power supplier Southern Electric said 44,000 of its customers remained without power.


It said about 19,500 of its customers, most of them in South Hampshire, Surrey and West Sussex, could be without power overnight.


Engineers will restart work on Christmas Day, a spokesperson for the company said.




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UK Power Networks, which supplies power to eight million people in the south of England, said it was aiming to restore power to everyone by the end of Boxing Day. Those whose power is not on by midnight should make contingency plans, it said.


It said it had “appealed to restaurants and pubs in areas still affected by the storm, to let us know if they have any availability to accommodate our customers should they still be without power from the storm tomorrow”.


In Devon, a man died after jumping into the River Lemon to rescue his dog.


Witnesses saw the 46-year-old enter the river before being swept away, police said, and he later died in hospital. The dog escaped unharmed.









Footage of flooding around the UK



Meanwhile, about 800 homes in the north of Scotland are still without power, mainly around the Deeside area, Buchan, Elgin, Wick and the Western Isles.


Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution said about 400 of its staff are working to reconnect the properties this evening.


Winds gusting up to 80 mph causing disruption to Christmas travel in Scotland, with the Northern and Western Isles hit by ferry and flight cancellations.


There has been heavy rain in Northern Ireland, while winds in Wales have reached 78mph in Pembrey and 77mph in Aberdaron.


A post mortem examination has been carried out on a woman whose body was recovered from a fast-flowing stream in heavy rain in Gwynedd on Monday.



The Isle of Man Steam Packet ferry crossings. ferry said it would take the unusual step of operating a Christmas Day sailing following cancellations during the day.


More than 10 flood warnings remain in place across mainland Scotland, with high tide being accompanied by heavy rainfall, but the number is beginning to fall.


The Environment Agency has about 120 flood warnings in place for England and Wales – signifying that flooding is “expected”, and more than 200 flood alerts, where flooding is “possible”.


BBC Radio Cumbria are reporting that more than 1,000 homes are without electricity in the county. Electricity North West says there is a problem with overhead lines, probably caused by strong winds.


There has been widespread disruption to train services because of the weather with Southern, South West, East Coast, First Capital Connect, Virgin Trains, Arriva Trains Wales and East Coast running amended services.


Robin Gisby, managing director of network operations at Network Rail, said engineers had cleared scores of line blockages and over 200 trees since the stormy weather moved into the UK from the Atlantic during Monday.




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Saturday, September 28, 2013

Native and non-native reptiles feeling the stress of Colorado floods


Claire Martin
The Denver Post
Sept. 28, 2013


As executive director of the Colorado Reptile Humane Society, Ann-Elizabeth Nash hears some odd stories, but the post-flood call that began “I’ve got this black and yellow lizard in our window well” topped most of them.


“I knew she was talking about a tiger salamander that was probably trying to get to higher ground and dropped into what was, for a tiger salamander, a pitfall trap,” Nash said.


“We told her to leave it there, that it’d be fine. She said, ‘Well, it’s not just the one.’ So she had four window wells, and one had 10 tiger salamanders, and the next one had eight plus a couple of toads. I was imagining tiger salamanders tromping up to her backyard: ‘Please, give us dry land!’”


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Monday, August 19, 2013

Floods in China leave many dead

19 August 2013 Last updated at 03:17 ET

Soldiers rush to set up sand bags to prevent flood from an overflowing river in Heihe, Heilongjiang province August 17, 2013.Almost 3,000 soldiers are helping with relief efforts


At least 91 people have died and 111 are missing after days of torrential rain and floods in north-east and southern China, state media report.


More than 840,000 people have been evacuated from Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning and Guangdong provinces.


Almost eight million people are thought to be affected by the floods.


China’s Xinhua news agency described the floods in the north as the “worst in decades”. Incessant rain hit the south in the wake of Typhoon Utor.


The storm killed 10 people as it passed through Guangdong province last week but heavy rains followed bringing more chaos to the region.


Meanwhile, storms battered north-eastern Liaoning from Thursday to Saturday, leaving many rivers flooded in the city of Fushun, Xinhua quoted district officials as saying.


The rains cut off railway and road traffic and power in Fushun.


Almost 3,000 soldiers are helping with relief efforts, reports say.




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Sunday, August 11, 2013

Flash floods batter Afghanistan, at least 22 dead


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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Relatives of missing in India floods maintain hope



LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A day after the government said it would treat more than 5,700 people missing in floods in northern India last month as presumed dead, relatives said Wednesday they still held out hope that their loved ones had survived.


The provisional death toll — officials said some of the missing still could turn up alive — would make the Uttarakhand floods the worst natural disaster in India since more than 10,000 people were killed here in the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.


The toll was worsened by the presence of tens of thousands of Hindu pilgrims visiting the state’s temples and the many vacationers who head to its cool hills to escape the summer heat. The government said it was presuming those missing for a month were dead so it could start giving compensation to their families.


Anuradha Raizada, left her home in the state of Uttar Pradesh and went to the temple town of Kedarnath with her husband and two sons – Ashwal, 18, and Atharav, 16. She returned home alone.


On June 16, a wall of water struck the hotel where they were staying. Her husband and one of her sons were swept away.


“There was a deafening noise of water and rain. I clung to my younger son, who had injured his leg and could not walk,” she said. The next day, when he complained of thirst, she left to fetch him water, but she got lost when she tried to return to him. That was the last she saw of him.


She later stumbled across her husband’s dead body, recognizing him from the shirt he had been wearing. She still holds out hope for her children.


She met Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna, who assured her that every corner of Kedar valley would be searched for her two sons, she said.


“I know my sons will return one day. They are safe somewhere in the hills,” she said.


Since the flood, Manoj Jaiswal, 40, has not heard from his brother, sister-in-law or their two children, who had been on a pilgrimage in the area. He said the morning just before the flood, his brother called him to say they were staying an extra day.


“This proved fatal for them,” he said.


Jaiswal had gone to the area to search for his relatives. “The hotel where they were staying is badly damaged. Twenty-eight people died in that hotel, but my brother’s name is not there in the casualty list,” he said.


The state government has been criticized for poor emergency preparedness in a disaster-prone Himalayan area, and chaotic development has been blamed for exacerbating the damage from mudslides and overflowing rivers.


Bahuguna said the government would address those concerns.


“We will devise a scientific system where a balance could be maintained between development and nature,” he said.


More than 1,100 roads were damaged because of the rains and landslides and many of them remained cut off, said R.P. Bhatt, the chief engineer at the Public Works Department. Entire villages were buried in silt and debris.


Ramesh Pokhriyal, a former chief minister of the state and a top official with the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party said many villages could not get food supplies and he feared people would begin dying of hunger if immediate action was not taken.


Bahuguna said the government was working on alleviating the suffering.


“Work is under way at a great speed to redevelop and reconstruct the affected areas and to provide relief to those hit by the disaster,” he said.


A report sent to Parliament by India’s top audit body in April, said the state was badly unprepared for disasters, even though it was vulnerable to earthquakes, landslides and torrential rain.


One state body formed to deal with disasters has never met since it was formed in 2007. Another group, the State Disaster Management Authority, set no rules, regulations or policies since it was formed the same year.


A disaster management plan was still being prepared, there was no early warning system in the state, communication infrastructure was inadequate, emergency service jobs were left unfilled and medical personnel were not trained to deal with disasters, the report said.


“The state authorities were virtually nonfunctional,” it said.


Nevertheless, army troops, paramilitary soldiers and volunteers rescued more than 100,000 people who had been stranded by the disaster.


The air force and private companies made thousands of helicopter sorties to pick up people stuck on rooftops or marooned on hilltops and to drop off food and drinking water.


In a rare feat, a mule stranded in a small island in the middle of the Alaknanda River, was tranquillized and airlifted by a helicopter to safety a month after being swept away in the floods, Captain Bhupinder of Sumit Aviation said. The owners of hundreds of other mules and horses staged a sit-in demanding the rescue of their injured and starving animals.


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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Fires, floods, storms: Mother Nature sends extremes across U.S.




  • Heavy rains head to Florida with season’s first possible tropical depression or storm

  • Wildfires burn in Los Angeles area and New Mexico

  • The Mississippi River crests at St. Louis, and high water heads toward Cape Girardeau

  • Thunderstorms may hit Oklahoma, but mercifully, more tornadoes are a long shot



(CNN) — Tempestuous weather is striking the United States on four fronts. It seems as if Mother Nature is trying to throw us one extreme or another. Here they are:


First tropical storm of the season?


An area of “disturbed weather” in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Yucatan Peninsula, could bring heavy rains and flooding to the Florida Peninsula and the Georgia and Carolina coastlines by Thursday, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said.


Morris says he’ll be watching to see if the bad weather becomes the first tropical depression — or even the first tropical storm — of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30.


At a minimum, the storms could cause a lot of rainfall and flooding on the Florida Peninsula, he said.


Fires


A 32,000-acre wildfire is burning some old-growth chaparral in northern Los Angeles County that lies in the western tip of the Mojave Desert.


Firefighters have brought the so-called Powerhouse Fire 60% under control, said Ed Gilliland of the U.S. Forest Service.


A few hundred homes and other structures remain at moderate risk, but conditions are safe enough to lift evacuations and allow people to return to the communities of Green Valley, Leona Valley, Elizabeth Lake and Lake Hughes, authorities said.


Higher humidity and lower temperatures should help firefighters, Gilliland said.


Added Morris: “They aren’t expecting gusty winds in that area, so the conditions should be favorable for the firefighters to gain some ground there, which they have been.”


In New Mexico, a wildfire is burning nearly uncontrollably in the mountains at Pecos. The Tres Lagunas Fire is only 7% contained and has consumed 8,500 acres, authorities said, adding that crews are trying to protect structures in Holy Ghost Canyon.


Floods


The mighty Mississippi River is now at major flood stage in St. Louis, but the worst of it is over and waters will recede this week, Morris said.


The river there has topped 40 feet, more than 10 feet above flood stage.


Downriver, however, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, could face flooding as the surge moves downstream, Morris said.


But the city will be the last along the river to face such a threat, because the river begins to widen south of there, Morris said.


“We’re expecting Cape Girardeau to reach major flood stage tonight and crest at the end of the week,” Morris said Tuesday.


Crews in West Alton, Missouri — a town just north of St. Louis where the Mississippi and Missouri rivers meet — were reinforcing their levees with sandbags. A levee breach prompted authorities to urge 300 residents to evacuate. And the bridge to Alton, Illinois, was shut down after a temporary flood barricade failed.


But no homes in West Alton are under water, said Colene McEntee, a spokeswoman for St. Charles County.


Tornado Alley


Still reeling from deadly twisters, Oklahoma faces a slight risk of thunderstorms Tuesday, but the good news is there’s only a slight chance of an isolated tornado, Morris said. There’s also a chance of large hail and damaging straight-line winds in northwest Oklahoma, he added.


“For most of the state, it’s just a very slight risk of severe storms,” Morris said.


There is also a slight risk of severe weather for the southern half of Kansas, far northern Texas and southeast Colorado.


Oklahoma’s recent storms have killed 19 people, said Shanea Scully, administrative coordinator for the Oklahoma City Fire Department.




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Saturday, June 1, 2013

Twisters, floods sweep across Midwest, Plains











A man stands on top of his car as it is flooded on S. May Ave near SW 25th in Oklahoma City, Friday, May 31, 2013, following flooding after a severe thunderstorm moved through Oklahoma CIty. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Sarah Phipps) LOCAL STATIONS OUT (KFOR, KOCO, KWTV, KOKH, KAUT OUT); LOCAL WEBSITES OUT; LOCAL PRINT OUT (EDMOND SUN OUT, OKLAHOMA GAZETTE OUT) TABLOIDS OUT






People stop traffic to help one of several loose horses across I-40 just east of 81 in El Reno, Okla., after a tornado moved through the area on Friday, May 31, 2013. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel) LOCAL STATIONS OUT (KFOR, KOCO, KWTV, KOKH, KAUT OUT); LOCAL WEBSITES OUT; LOCAL PRINT OUT (EDMOND SUN OUT, OKLAHOMA GAZETTE OUT) TABLOIDS OUT






Overturned trucks block a frontage road off I-40 just east of 81 in El Reno, Okla., after a tornado moved through the area on Friday, May 31, 2013. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel) LOCAL STATIONS OUT (KFOR, KOCO, KWTV, KOKH, KAUT OUT); LOCAL WEBSITES OUT; LOCAL PRINT OUT (EDMOND SUN OUT, OKLAHOMA GAZETTE OUT) TABLOIDS OUT






OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Emergency officials set out Saturday to assess damage from a series of violent storms and tornadoes that killed nine people as it swept through Oklahoma City and its suburbs with tornadoes, large hail and heavy rain. More than 100 people were injured.


Muddy floodwaters stood several feet deep in the countryside surrounding the metro area. Torrential downpours followed for hours after the twisters moved east, and water damage was reported at the city’s airport. The storms battered a state still reeling after the top-of-the-scale EF5 tornado that ripped through suburban Moore last month, killing 24 people and decimating neighborhoods.


Water surged hood-high on many streets, snarling traffic at the worst possible time: Friday’s evening commute. Even though several businesses closed early so employees could beat the storm home, highways were still clogged with motorists worried about a repeat of the chaos in Moore.


Bart Kuester, 50, a truck driver from Wisconsin, said he was driving along Interstate 35 past Moore when he realized a dangerous storm was approaching.


“I heard the sirens going off and I could see it coming,” he said.


Kuester said the interstate was flooded and jammed with people trying to outrun the storm.


“Everyone was leaving. … Just because that one that hit Moore was so fresh in their memory,” he said.


Though it was in the tornado warning zone, Moore was spared major damage by the storms, but still experienced heavy rain and high wind. A convention center where the town held its graduation in the days after the storm suffered minor flooding damage, officials said.


The Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office said a man was missing from a vehicle near Harrah, east of Oklahoma City, and a pair of sinkholes were reported on each side of the metro area.


When the storm passed between El Reno and Yukon, it barreled right down Interstate 40 for more than two miles, ripping billboards down to twisted metal frames. Debris was tangled in the median’s crossover barriers, including huge pieces of sheet metal, tree limbs, metal pipes, a giant oil drum and a stretch of chain-link fence.


The warped remains of a horse trailer lay atop a barbed-wire fence less than 50 yards from the highway.


Violent weather also moved through the St. Louis area. Early aerial images of the storm’s damage showed groups of homes with porches ripped away, roofs torn off and piles of splintered wood scattered across the ground for blocks. Officials in St. Charles County also reported that local schools suffered some damage.


Among the nine dead in Oklahoma were a mother and a baby found in a vehicle. Amy Elliott, a spokeswoman for the state medical examiner, said Saturday the death toll was up to seven adults and two children. The Oklahoma State Department of Health reported Saturday afternoon that 104 people were hurt.


Meteorologists had warned about particularly nasty weather Friday but said the storm’s fury didn’t match that of the tornado that struck Moore. The Friday storm, however, brought with it much more severe flooding. It dumped around 8 inches of rain on Oklahoma City in the span of a few hours and made the tornado difficult to spot for motorists trying to beat it home.


“Some tornadoes are wrapped in rain, so it’s basically impossible to see, which is extremely dangerous,” said Bruce Thoren, a meteorologist with National Weather Service in Norman. “Somebody driving along really not familiar with what’s going on can basically drive into it.”


Emergency officials reported that numerous injuries occurred in the area along I-40, and said the storm’s victims were mostly in cars. Standing water was several feet deep, and in some places it looked more like a hurricane had passed through than a tornado. More than 86,000 utility customers were without power.


Among the injured was Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Bettes, who suffered minor injuries when his “tornado hunt” SUV that he and two photographers were riding in was thrown 200 yards. The Weather Channel said all of the people in the vehicle were able to walk away, and that it was the first time a network personality was injured in a storm.


Will Rogers World Airport was slowly reopening Saturday and some flights were resuming. But the airport reported significant damage to the roof of the terminal, and flooding damage to walls, counters and floors.


In Missouri, the combination of high water and fallen power lines closed dozen of roads, snarling traffic on highways and side streets in the St. Louis area. At the Hollywood Casino in the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights, gamblers rushed from the floor as a storm blew through, causing minor damage to the building.


The U.S. averages more than 1,200 tornadoes a year and most are relatively small. Of the 60 EF5 tornadoes to hit since 1950, Oklahoma and Alabama have been hit the most — seven times each.


National Weather Service meteorologists said Saturday that it’s unclear how many tornadoes touched down as part of the Friday evening storm system. Dozens of tornado warnings were issued for central Oklahoma and parts of Missouri, especially near St. Louis, they said, but crews must assess the damage before determining whether it was caused by tornadoes or severe thunderstorms.


But one thing is certain: The chances for severe weather are on the decline as a cold front moves through the region, said weather service meteorologist Gene Hatch in Springfield, Mo.


This spring’s tornado season got a late start, with unusually cool weather keeping funnel clouds at bay until mid-May. The season usually starts in March and then ramps up for the next couple of months.


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Associated Press writers Ken Miller and Tim Talley in Oklahoma City, Justin Juozapavicius in Tulsa; Erica Hunzinger in Chicago; David Bauder in New York; Jeannie Nuss in Texarkana, Texas; and Jim Salter in Maryland Heights, Mo., and freelance photographer Nick Oxfrod in Oklahoma City contributed to this report.


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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Do You Have An Emergency Plan For Your Family?

Planning is important to surviving a disaster or any extreme weather event. You simply cannot handle things as they come up during a disaster, you must have a plan in place as to what to do when disaster strikes. Planning protects your family and ensures life essentials are met. First determine what you are up against, are earthquakes possible, is flooding a risk during heavy rains and do you know if you are susceptible to tidal surges during tropical storms or hurricanes. If you rely on your community\’s water treatment plant for water, you should plan for the possibility that the treatment plant may not be operational during certain disasters. Knowing the possibilities as far as what disaster you may face allows you to devise an emergency disaster plan for your family.

Not knowing when a disaster may strike, means you must be prepared at all times. Therefore, every member of your family must know what to do at 3am and well as at 9am. Emergency exits must be well defined so there is no confusion. People will panic when they simply do not know the next move. Once disaster strikes, is not the time to wonder about what direction to go in, or what room to assemble in if the disaster strikes in the middle of the night. Make sure all plans are updated and keep in mind if you are the only one that knows what the plan is then you do not have a plan.

Everyone needs organization and making everyone part of the emergency disaster plans helps everyone understand what needs to be done. If you have a shelter on your property, it is important that it be inspected periodically. If you plan to store your emergency supplies in any type of shelter you must keep track of the supplies and make sure there is not any deterioration of medical items, water or food. Even rooms within your home must be inspected for suitability, make sure it has a load-bearing wall and it should not have windows or outside walls.

Your disaster plan should also include practice drills. Does everyone that has a driver\’s license know the way to your local storm shelters and the emergency evacuation routes? Practice driving to the shelters and along the evacuation routes. During a disaster is not the time to wonder which direction to travel in. You also need to consider what to do if your children are at school and you are at work. What are the emergency procedures for your work place and what procedures do the schools have for disasters? Typically, unless it has been verified ahead of time only the parents can pick up children from school.

Share what you know at meetings. Meetings should be held more frequently as you get into the seasons for certain natural disasters. The meetings can be used to assign tasks to everyone. Who is responsible for making sure the supplies are up to date, and that the supplies used during the last backyard adventure have been replaced. Older children need to be involved and be given certain responsibilities. Does everyone know what to do in the event of a fire or partial structure collapse? Take everyone with you as you drive to the shelters during mock drills, they can help you find your way during a disaster because some landmarks may be destroyed so more than one set of eyes will be needed. Make sure your family members understand why the main electrical breaker and gas line should be shut off during a disaster. Share what you know.

You should be flexible enough to change your disaster emergency plan and accept other\’s ideas. They may be aware of something that at the time you are not, so always keep an open mind.

Preppers should learn more about disaster preparation for families by visiting The Smart Preppers Website. Take time today to prepare your family so they will be safe when a future disaster occurs.


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