EVACUATION DURING FLOOD

 

• If advised to evacuate your home, do so immediately and follow the evacuation plans of your community closely. Do not create panic, disobey volunteers and never allow a stampeded like situation to occur.

• Take the identified route to reach safe location as per planned instructions.

• Help the differently abled people of your community to reach the safe location as per planned instructions.

• Do not walk through moving water. As little as 6 inches of moving water can make you fall.

• If you have to walk in water, wherever possible, walk where the water is not moving. Use a stick to check the firmness of the ground in front of you.

• Stay away from tilted electric poles and weak walls that might collapse.

• Do not drive into flooded areas. If floodwaters rise around your vehicle/tractor/bullock cart, abandon it and move to higher ground safely.

• Do not touch electrical equipment if you are wet or standing in water.

• Take care of your health and do not drink water which is not boiled. Use chlorine tablets to disinfect water prior to drinking.

• Take utmost care for spread of diseases like cholera and  typhoid. Be aware that treatment of such diseases after floods will be a mammoth task and proper health care may be very difficult task.

• Do not defecate in the open. Use temporary toilets put up by rescue teams for the purpose.

• Wash your hands thoroughly with soap to avoid catching infections brought about by flood water.