Your struggle with flooding.
You should be prepared for a possibility of flooding in your local area. Certainly I really hope that God will save you. But anyway you?d better prepare for this especially relying on your own potential. In fact mass media can be greatly helpful for you offering you information about the expected time and the boundaries of flooding. If your house may correspond to the declared area of flooding, you need to do the following actions.

You are to turn off gas, water and electricity, extinguish the fire in the furnace,
transport your valuables and belongings to the upper floors and attics. You should also close windows and doors. If you receive a warning about the evacuation you should prepare a warm, comfortable clothing, boots, blankets, money and valuables, collect a three-day supply of food, prepare a first aid kit and medicines, which you usually use, wrap your passport and other documents in waterproof pack.

All items and products should be put into a backpack, suitcase or bag. There should be announced, where and how all of this is going to be sent from the danger zone.

After that, people are placed in temporary accommodation. First of all children should be evacuated as well as child care facilities and hospitals. Companies impose a regime of emergency events. From this moment it?s high time to begin collecting food, livestock, machinery and so on. The flood even in a small valley of the river lasts for seven days as usual. In medium rivers this period lasts from two weeks to a month. However, there are flash floods. In this case it literally means raining down on 2-3 hours.

Experts point out two ways that destroy the water settlements. The first one is the direct flooding when streets, yards and first floors of buildings are flooded. In the second case the water enters the basement through the sewer, on various ditches and sharply rising levels of groundwater. And in both cases affected the foundations of houses, pipes are affected as well as electricity and communications.

So once the water has subsided, we must carefully enter the building, making sure that the design hasn?t suffered a serious destruction. Before starting living there again you should ventilate it through by opening all windows and doors. To dry the house, it is necessary to leave windows open and start collecting water and wet debris. Electricity, gas, water supply and sanitation can only be put into operation as soon as competent specialists allow using it. I don?t advise you to start using all of this before that permission mentioned above. To cut a long story with you should mostly wait until everything will turn to be dry. Let the sun do this job for you.

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