Tsunami
Tsunami |
Get a Tsunami Kit |
Make a Plan |
Prepare |
During theTsunami |
After the Tsunami
Prepare your Tsunami Kit
Get an Emergency Supply Kit, which includes items like non-perishable food, water, a battery-powered or hand-crank radio, extra flashlights and batteries. You may want to prepare a portable kit and keep it in your car. This kit should include:
- Copies of prescription medications and medical supplies
- Bedding and clothing, including sleeping bags and pillows
- Bottled water, a battery-operated radio and extra batteries, a first aid kit, a flashlight
- Copies of important documents: driver's license, Social Security card, proof of residence, insurance policies, wills, deeds, birth and marriage certificates, tax records, etc.
For a Tsunami
In addition to your basic emergency kit, when preparing for a Tsunami you want to consider the following:
- Talk to everyone in your household about what to do if a tsunami occurs. Create and practice an evacuation plan for your family. Familiarity may save your life. Be able to follow your escape route at night and during inclement weather. You should be able to reach your safe location on foot within 15 minutes. Practicing your plan makes the appropriate response more of a reaction, requiring less thinking during an actual emergency.
- If the school evacuation plan requires you to pick your children up from school or from another location. Be aware telephone lines during a tsunami watch or warning may be overloaded and routes to and from schools may be jammed.
- Knowing your community's warning systems and disaster plans, including evacuation routes.
- Know the height of your street above sea level and the distance of your street from the coast or other high-risk waters. Evacuation orders may be based on these numbers.
- If you are a tourist, familiarize yourself with local tsunami evacuation protocols. You may be able to safely evacuate to the third floor and higher in reinforced concrete hotel structures.
- If an earthquake occurs and you are in a coastal area, turn on your radio to learn if there is a tsunami warning.
- A battery powered radio (preferably with weather channels)
- A flashlight in working order. Do not store the flashlight with the batteries installed. There are battery-less flashlights now available
- Immediate first aid needs like bandages, antibiotic wipes, tweezers, etc.
- Food (energy bars) and bottle of water
- Emergency blanket - foil lined to retain warmth
- Large marking pen or bottle of spray paint to write your address on the driveway, remains of structures for rescue personnel
- Copies of any critical medical records
- Whistle to help rescuers locate you
Get a Kit
- Get an Emergency Supply Kit, which includes items like non-perishable food, water, a battery-powered or hand-crank radio, extra flashlights and batteries.
- Store it in your shelter location