Getting Storm Ready

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Getting Storm Ready

• Thunderstorms, Lightning, Tornadoes and Floods

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Get a Kit
If the power goes out for several days youll
need

• Dont forget your pets!
• Food water
• Sturdy leashes carriers
• Photos of you with your pets
• Medication vet info

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Listen

• Its like a smoke detector for severe weather
  hazardous conditions
• It will tell you all about severe weather when it
  is on the way
• It will sound a loud tone to get your attention
  or wake you up so you can get to safety
• Make sure you keep plenty of extra batteries

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Make a Plan

• Escape!
• Find 2 ways to get out of every room
• Have an escape ladder for upstairs rooms
• Have a place to meet outside
• Practice!

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Make a Plan
Communicate

• If there were an emergency and you were not
  together in the same place. . .
• How would you get touch with each other?
• Where would you meet?
• How would you remain in contact?
• What would you do if you were at school?
• What would you do about your pets?

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Thunderstorms

• When thunder ROARSgo indoors!

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Dont Wait!
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Thunderstorms
If youre outdoors

• Find shelter in a building or car (NOT a
  convertible)
• Go to a low-lying place away from trees, poles or
  metal objects
• Boating or swimming get to land shelter right
  away

• In the woods find a low spot under the shorter
  trees

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Lightning!

• If your hair stands on end make yourself small
• Dont lie flat on the ground
• Squat low to the ground
• Bend your head between your knees

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Lightning!
If youre indoors

• Dont touch appliances or use the phone
• Dont turn on any water faucets
• Turn off the air conditioner
• Close the curtains, blinds or shades

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Tornadoes

• May occur in trailing edge of thunderstorm
• Quite visible
• Sunlit skies behind
• Could be embedded in rain
• Not visible

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Tornado Clues

• Dark, often greenish sky
• Wall cloud
• Large hail
• Cloud of debris
• Funnel cloud
• Roaring noise

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Tornado Terms

• Tornado WATCH tornado is possible
• LISTEN to radio
• Keep an eye on the sky
• Tornado WARNING a tornado has been spotted
• Take shelter IMMEDIATELY

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Tornado Shelter

• If you are in a vehicle, trailer or mobile home
• GET OUT and go to a solid structure

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Tornado Shelter

• Basement

• Center of an interior room on the lowest floor
• Closet or interior hallway
• Away from corners, windows, doors outside walls
• Put as many walls as possible between you the
  outside
• Get under a sturdy table use your arms to
  protect your head
• Do not open windows

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Tornado Shelter

• If youre outside with no shelter
• Lie flat in a nearby ditch or depression and
  cover your head with your hands
• Do not get under an overpass or bridge
• Never try to outrun a tornado
• Watch out for flying debris

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Floods

• Flood
• An overflow of water into a normally dry area
  from an established watercoursesuch as a river,
  stream, drainageditch or pond
• How do you know if a flood is coming?
• NOTICE if its been raining for several hours
  or days
• LISTEN to weather radio, regular radio or TV

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Floods

• Floods are the 1 natural disaster in the US
  and most people killed in floods drown in moving
  water
• Just six inches of moving water can make you fall
  down
• Six inches of water will reach the bottom of most
  cars and make them lose control or stall

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Turn Around!

• One foot of water will float most cars
• Two feet of rushing water can carry away most
  vehicles including SUVs pick-up trucks
• Obey all official signs barricades
• Dont play or swim in flood water

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Stay Safe
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The End!

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  visit our Ready Wisconsin web site
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