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HEALTH MINISTRY FOCUS March 2019 Flood Season

  • Ron Herman
  • Mar 21, 2019
  • 2 min read

“For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.” Genesis 7:17

We’ve experienced a lot of rain this year, but it has not approached Biblical proportions. God did, after all, promise not to do it again. Still, there is a danger with an excess of water. Floods are the most common natural disaster in the United States. Failing to evacuate flooded areas, entering flood waters, or remaining after a flood has passed can result in injury or death. Some tips from the Department of Homeland Security website:

IF YOU ARE UNDER A FLOOD WARNING, FIND SAFE SHELTER RIGHT AWAY

HOW TO STAY SAFE WHEN A FLOOD THREATENS

Prepare NOW

  • Know types of flood risk in your area. Visit FEMA’s Flood Map Service Center for information.

  • Sign up for your community’s warning system.

  • If flash flooding is a risk in your location, then monitor potential signs. Learn and practice evacuation routes, shelter plans, and flash flood response.

  • Gather supplies for evacuation or if services are cut off.

Survive DURING

  • Depending on where you are, and the impact and the warning time of flooding, go to the safe location that you previously identified.

  • If told to evacuate, do so immediately. Never drive around barricades.

  • Listen to EAS, NOAA Weather Radio, or local alerting systems for current emergency information and instructions.

  • Do not walk, swim, or drive through flood waters.

Turn Around. Don’t Drown!

  • Stay off bridges over fast-moving water.

  • If your vehicle is trapped in rapidly moving water, then stay inside. If water is rising inside the vehicle, then seek refuge on the roof.

  • If trapped in a building, then go to its highest level. Do not climb into a closed attic.

Be Safe AFTER

  • Listen to authorities for information and instructions. Return home only when authorities say it is safe.

  • Avoid driving, except in emergencies.

  • Snakes and other animals may be in your house. Wear heavy gloves and boots during clean up.

  • Be aware of the risk of electrocution.

  • Avoid wading in floodwater, which can contain dangerous debris and be contaminated.

  • Use a generator or other gasoline-powered machinery ONLY outdoors and away from windows.


Courtesy of Lutheran Church Missouri Synod – Pacific Southwest District

 
 
 

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