FLOOD

Pre-Disaster : Individual :

• Know the route of the nearest safe shelter
• First Aid Kit should be ready with extra medicines for snake bite and diarrhea.
• Tie up all valuables at the top of the roof
• Radio with extra batteries, torch, ropes to be kept ready
• Store dry ration, kerosene, biscuits, baby food for at least 7 days
• Water proof bags, polythenes to store clothes and valuables
• Be ready with umbrella & bamboo sticks (To protect yourself from snake
• Identify a highland/mound for the cattle & have sufficient fodder for them
• As soon as you receive warning tune to the local news in the radio/TV for the latest update
• Check your emergency kits
• If you have to evacuate pack clothes, essential medicines, valuables, personal papers in a water proof bags
• Inform the DMT member to the place that you are shifting to
• Raise furniture and appliances to a higher place
• Switch off all electrical appliances
• Put sandbags in the toilet bowl and cover all sewage backflow
• Lock your house and take the route suggested
• Don‘t go into water of unknown depth and current.
• Don‘t spread rumors. Get authentic data and then announce it
• Don‘t go into water of unknown depth and current.

Government Preparedness:

• Update all the resource inventory
• Control room should be functional for 24 hours 130
• Identify all the shelter places where people could be evacuated
• Activate all the First Aid and the Rescue & Evacuation team
• See to it that there is no blockage in the flow of the river
• Ascertain the availability of dry food, drinking water & medicines
• Ascertain the fodder availability for cattle
• Mobilize boats, vehicles which will help in evacuation and rescue operation and also in the distribution of relief
• Prior storage of food grains in the vulnerable pockets
• Identify the relief centers
• Inspect, strengthen and repair all the approach roads and culverts
• Provide mobile wireless sets the villages likely to be cut off
• Arrange adequate hand pumps where wells are likely to be inundated
• Liaison with army, Navy etc.
• Prepare maps of alternate route, resources available

During - Disaster: Individual:

• Drink boiled water or put halogen tablets
• Keep food covered. Don‘t take heavy meals and eat food that is hot
• Use raw tea, rice water, coconut water during diarrhea
• Be careful of snakebites
• Don‘t let children stay in empty stomach
• Avoid entering flood water. Stay away from water which is above knee depth.

Government:

• Carry out rescue and evacuation
• Operation of control room and provide warning update
• Provide relief materials
• Mobilizing resources like boat, dry food, temporary shelter
• Ensuring the availability of medicines, drinking water, tankers etc
• Coordination at various levels and agencies
• Mobile health units to be made available 131
• Damage assessment of life, livestock, crop and livelihood.

Post -Disaster: Individual:

• Listen to the latest flood bulletin before moving from the shelter place
• Use recommended routes to return back
• Dry all electrical equipments before using it
• Avoid touching any loose wire
• Beware of snake bites
• Clean the house and disinfect the surrounding by using bleaching powder.

Government:

• Rescue people who are stranded
• Restore roads and power supply
• Provide safe drinking water
• Check outbreak of any epidemics
• Mobile health teams to be mobilized
• Take the help of the NGOs
• Carry out damage assessment
• Ensure that adequate, timely and speedy credit is available to the farmers for purchasing agricultural inputs and cattle