Keep your family safe from being injured or killed by exposure to ice, winter roads lead to car accidents, and fires due to heat use during a winter storm.
According to the nationwide public service campaign of the U.S, conducted by ready.gov there are maximum risks that winter storm increases carbon monoxide, frostbite, and hypothermia that is very dangerous to your family. Winter storm even causes power outages that it cut off heat and all communication outlets inside your home.
How can you possibly keep your family from extreme weather conditions significantly that these events can endanger your children's lives and, other than that, can as well bring vast damage to infrastructure?
Listed below are ways you could keep your family safe
To protect your family, first, you need to protect your home.
Here are our emergency tips to protect your home
- Insulate all the water pipes you've got in your home
- Clean all the leakings in your home, especially rain gutters
- If necessary, hire a contractor to check your home
- Maintain all your fire extinguisher and ready
- Maintain all your heating equipment
- Also, dont forget to install a battery-operated carbon monoxide detector
Always ready your family emergency plan
The family emergency plan is the best of help to keep your family safe during calamities, fires, and tornadoes come first in mind. But you need one for winter storms too, and consider making your plan base on the area where you live. To brainstorm what you'll do if the battery gets serious, hold a meeting with your family.
Make the team out of your children and ask them the following scenario that may arise during the calamity; how are you going to find their phone number? If a member gets lost or split from the group, where do you meet?
Always keep your family hydrated.
Keep in mind that your children lose more water by breathing in the drier winter air. So always give them plenty of water, and for extra caution for them, consider offering your children warm drinks and soup.
Don't forget to ready your emergency kit at home.
If you plan to keep a well-stocked snowstorm kit inside your car, it would not be a good idea. Consider if the forecast calls for immense winter weather, it is best and safe to stay inside your home, but you never know, even when you are already inside your home when trapped in the flurries.
Consider putting these in your emergency kit;
- Emergency communication keep your mobile phone charged
- Medical needs all inside your first aid kit
- Keep your critical documents saved in one kit
- Tools and safety items such as pocket knife and whistle to signal your family members
- Importantly foods and other supplies
- But also, prepare warm clothes and extra blankets to keep your body heated
Learn what are the things you need to do when the power goes out
If the power goes out, back-up generators may be a lifesaver, but using them correctly is vital. According to the CDC, "Generators should be located at least 20 feet from any window, door, or vent and in a space where rain and snow will not reach them."
Stocking your firewood for your wood-burning fireplace is also a good idea. Your fireplace will help you heat up once the power goes out. Another way to keep your family heated is to use multiple clothes to cover them, including pajamas and socks.
