Lessons that presents the hurricane "Sandy" and other disasters

We are watching a lot of movies about the end of the world, the global Flood and other misfortunes, but none of us had on not trying the fate of the victims. As the events in the US and in Russia, to be ready such disasters are not so difficult. And if you do you're ready, your chances to move shocks or even just survive serious increase!

Here are some lessons very simple tips on how to be prepared for hurricanes in your area.

Old technology COX

The first thing that stopped working when the hurricane "Sandy" hit the East Coast - mobile connection. Of course, operators do everything in their power, but it worked extremely unstable. Imagine that the number of connections per station is reduced because of the breakdown of network nodes, and people want to call more and more. If your apartment or house has a fixed connection, it may stand a little longer, and will preserve your relationship with the outside world. And, you can use SMS, often they continue to work for longer.

By the way, if you were once in the stadium, then you know that it is often impossible to dial someone during a match. But SMS are frequent.

Save all important web pages, which you might need during a disaster, but will not be available. It takes a lot of time, but it can help a lot.

Prepare your home in advance

Of course, you can not build a new solid house, but you can prepare its to bad weather. Put the wind-window, do the bars on the doors and check whether your roof will withstand a falling tree.

Social networks - not the best source of information

Social networks They were filled with incorrect information, value judgments and simply waste. Relying on this information was sometimes dangerous. If you too are relying on tweets and posts, trust only to trusted sources - newspapers, or people to whom you have full personal confidence.

Power will not be very long

Do you remember the last time I sat for several days without electricity at home? If yes, then you know how much we have given at the mercy of electrical appliances - water heaters, refrigerators, electronic gadgets, the light in the dark parts of the house (storage, bathroom and toilet). If you have a foreign for phone charging, Keep it charged. Remember that you can use a car battery and a car, which is put to charge the phone. There are also charging for gadgets that run from the fire and the wood :)

And do not be redundant candles. Buy the box and put the next match - once we could not light the candles laid up, because the house did not have cigarette lighters and matches.

Prepare to queue

I hate the queue and is ready to do anything in my power to avoid them. If you find yourself in a disaster zone, then get ready for hours-long queues. They are for everyone - for water, food, transportation... Just do not create problems of the same victim, like you.

Know what you can eat and what is not

Once lost electrician, your refrigerator will "die". In our experience, a good freezer refrigerator 3-4 days keep the products in a condition suitable for eating and cooking, then they will begin to deteriorate. With all of the sudden cooling chamber. If you are in a flood zone and water in your home, do not touch the product, which touched the water. She always contaminated by chemicals and sewage.

Here is a tableIn which a list of products that can and can not eat with the proviso that they are at a temperature above 5˚C over 2 hours.

Take care of your data

Sooner or later, the problem with the flood and storm pass by, and you Nawal new problems - the safety of your data on a flooded computers that you left at home. Well what can I add - Save important to Dropbox and its analogs, monitor the adequacy and freshness of these updates.

Keep an emergency kit

Well, be honest, you do not have Emergency backpack or suitcase? Collect it is not expensive and will take no more than half of the day. Here a list of all necessary, but here gadgetsThat will be the king of all situations. And do not forget about Multitools! are they such.