sets and generators may be kept ready to attend repairs to old How can the spread of communicable diseases be prevented? Unit- - - Critical - - pump sets and generators. Small precast readymade drains may be kept ready for drainage of water. g) Maintenance of all equipment of pump houses needs to be attended just after receiving the early warning.
h) Battery operated / solar lamps may be kept ready for use later on at various strategic locations of affected areas. i) Additional equipment may be kept ready for removal of fallen trees and garbage at various strategic locations. j) Bleaching powder / all other sanitary materials should be kept ready in advance for disinfection. k) Emergency medicines may be kept ready at all the dispensaries in the affected areas.
l) Global Position System (GPS) based inventory mapping of vehicles should be done. All public transport vehicles should be linked with GPS system at the time of registration so that they could be tracked, located and called at the earliest for deployment during disasters. m) Advisory may be issued to fish and prawn farmers for early harvesting on receipt of first early warning. .
In addition, people must have emergency disaster kits ready at their homes. . The emergency plan must have details including the emergency disaster kit, map of evacuation routes, a place where all the family members would meet after the cyclone, etc. Glossary inevitable (adj) : unavoidable hazards (n) : dangers, risks vulnerable (adj) : exposed to the possibility of being harmed.
devastating (adj) : destructive tremendous (adj) : great in intensity causalities (n) : victims, dead or injured mitigate (v) : reduce hoarding (n) : a large board used for advertising excavator (n) : construction equipment restoration (n) : return something to a former condition pruning (v) : trimming strategic (adj) : designed to achieve an aim breach (n) : gap or break evacuation (n) : send away from a place c) You are Karnan, one of the survivors of Cyclone Hudhud. Your house was partially damaged by the cyclone. You happen to meet