Before the Hurricane Season, Dominica

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Make a thorough check up of your shelters, hooks, and latches. Ensure that all fasteners for outside doors and windows are in order. Wherever possible, windows should be reinforced with shutters and doors with bars.

Keep on hand a supply of lumber for barring up purposes.
Make sure that roof covering is properly fixed to the rafters. Roof sheetings must be properly fixed to supports, preferably with long drivers screws. Spaces between the roof and the supports should be sealed off during hurricane periods.
Wooden houses- should be securely fixed to supports with their footings well into the ground. Houses should be protected against wood ants.
Try to ensure that there is a reserve of tinned milk or other tinned food as emergency rations in the home. Keep supplies of clean drinking water at hand, and that any open drinking water tanks are kept securely covered.
Cut any overhanging tree or branches above houses.
Unblock all drains, gullies, or ravines for free flow of main water.
Keep emergency items ready at all times in one place which is easy to reach and known to the whole family.
Keep a flashlight, hurricane lamp filled with kerosene, and matches in your house together with simple first aid equipment such as bandages, eye lotions, iodine, plasters, absorbent lint; as well as a portable radio with spare batteries.
Take similar precautions with respect to valuables , i.e.; passbooks, securities, cash etc. Know how and where to turn off your electricity, gas and water.
See that there are adequate water and storage facilities such as drums, barrels, and tanks if possible. Get extra food early in the season - so that you don't have to rush at the last moment especially foods which can be eaten without cooking or require very little preparation.
Be sure that emergency cooking facilities are in proper working order, procure a supply of kerosene and charcoal.
Discuss disaster risks with your family and make advance arrangements to get in touch with all family members.
Get to know the location of your shelter before an emergency, and the best way to get there.

Source: http://www.avirtualdominica.com

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