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General Preparedness Tips: Know Your Risks

The document discusses various natural hazards that occur in the Philippines such as storm surge, thunderstorms, La Niña, and El Niño. It then provides general preparedness tips for natural disasters which include knowing risks, reviewing emergency plans, securing important documents, and following official instructions. The document also discusses preparedness for flash floods and cyclones, including having a first aid kit, hygiene packs, clearing yards, and preparing emergency food and water supplies. Finally, it discusses Philippine storm warning signals and wind speed classifications for different storm types.

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General Preparedness Tips: Know Your Risks

The document discusses various natural hazards that occur in the Philippines such as storm surge, thunderstorms, La Niña, and El Niño. It then provides general preparedness tips for natural disasters which include knowing risks, reviewing emergency plans, securing important documents, and following official instructions. The document also discusses preparedness for flash floods and cyclones, including having a first aid kit, hygiene packs, clearing yards, and preparing emergency food and water supplies. Finally, it discusses Philippine storm warning signals and wind speed classifications for different storm types.

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Storm surge is also one of the hydrometeorological hazards found in the

Philippines. An example of this is the tropical storm, Thelma also known as Uring
which have escalated into a storm surge.

Next we have thunderstorm, an example of this is the thunderstorm happened in


Rosales, Pangasinan on April 30, 2019.

Next we have La nina, which we experience periodically here in the Philippines.

Lastly is El nino, which we also experience periodically here in the Philippines.

General preparedness tips


Know your risks

-Listing potential emergencies and ranking them in regards to importance and


likelihood is essential in knowing what to do and what resources to invest.

Review your emergency plan

-Review your plan with everyone in your household and make sure everyone knows
about the safest location in the home.

  

Check your supplies

-Be sure you have necessities such as water, blankets, first aid kits, flashlights,
batteries, radios and any pet care items.

Secure important documents

-Make sure documents such as insurance cards, IDs and other pertinent information
are placed in a secured water-proof container.
Be aware of your vehicle's surroundings

-put your vehicles in a low risk area or in a place where landslides are most likely
not to occur. 

Figure out your evacuation route

-plan with your family on how you will evacuate.  Better to construct your
evacuation route map to easily distinguish your location and your route to the exit.

Follow official instructions

-Follow all instructions from your local authorities regarding info about  evacuation
or other safety procedures 

Set up an out-of-town contact

-  You can turn to or rely on your friends that are outside the state incase a natural
disaster that destroyed your home

Flash floods preparedness


*Structural Measures

-To minimize and reduce the risk of flash flood by having structural measures such
as channel improvements, drainage improvement and sewer renovation.

 *Find out the frequency of occurrence of floods in locality, especially those


that affect your area.

-Doing so well help you avoid floods in your area if you are to go outside or if there
was an emergency evacuation to happened.   

 *Know the flood warning system in your locality. If none exists,


recommend to the appropriate authority for the creation of one.

-It is important to know and have a flood warning system, as it will tell you when to
evacuate or when the flood is getting out of hand. 
*Have a handy survival kit. It should contain battery operated transistor
radio, flashlight, emergency cooking equipment, candies, matches, and
first aid kit.

-Having a survival kit will be very helpful in times where you are injured or in
danger. 

Cyclone preparedness
make sure you have a first-aid kit containing essential treatments for cuts
and minor injuries.

-  Prepare the basic first-aid kit that is beneficial for first aid assistance for injuries. 

make sure you have hygiene packs for essential toiletry and personal
needs for each person in your house.

-You should prepare hygiene necessities for every individual in your home. 

 listen to the radio or television or use the Internet to obtain the latest
information about the location and track of the storm

-Make sure to prepare these technologies to prepare  the possible risk of the storm
in your area.

Clear your yard. Make sure there’s nothing that could blow around during
the storm and damage your home. 

-It is important to avoid injuries and destruction of things in our homes.

Prepare an emergency food and water supply.

-Prepare food that is nonperishable and these supplies should be enough for about
2 weeks.
Public Storm Warning Signals are used to raise public awareness and warn
individuals about imminent weather disturbances or impending meteorological
conditions. Signal numbers are allotted to the areas based on the intensity,
circulation size, direction, storm speed and many other factors.

For our signal number 1 we have tropical depression, signal number 2 we have
tropical storm, signal number 3 severe tropical storm, signal number 4 we have
typhoon, and signal number 5 we have super typhoon.

In a tropical depression, we have a sustained wind speed of 30-60 km/h

In a Tropical Storm, we have a sustained wind speed of 62-88 km/h

In a Severe Tropical storm, we have a sustained wind speed of 89-117 km/h

In a Typhoon, we have a sustained wind speed of 118-220 km/h

In a Super Typhoon, we have a sustained wind speed of faster than 220 km/h

It provides protection against natural calamities and utilize scientific knowledge as an effective
instrument to ensure the safety, well-being, and economic security of all the people.

It organizes and conduct training, orientation, and knowledge management activities on DRRM
at the local level.

It's mission to build disaster-resilient communities and businesses in the country through private
sector engagement and innovative disaster risk reduction and management strategies, programs,
and technologies.

It is the government's flagship program for disaster prevention and mitigation which aims to
create a disaster-free Philippines by providing tools and information to mitigate or avert disasters
caused by natural hazards.

provides world leadership and expertise in international cooperation in the delivery and use of
high-quality, authoritative weather, climate, hydrological and related environmental services by
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