Quakes, typhoon, and predictions
What I know is that there is already online information and maps showing where the quake faults are. Those who attempted posting information are simply regularly documenting and mapping where quake happened, its magnitude, and the impact to the communities and effects to geographical topography. Any prediction logically seemed harry-potter. They assess quakes along with serious consideration of the movement of the earth, its gravitation with other planets, and relation to the moon and sun.
Someone maybe educated people to duck, drop, cover, and hold. But that is not enough as a simulation respond when the catastrophe actually happens. It must be approached with clarity of minds, faith, and to remain focus and objective on what to do during disaster, including the need to quickly rise from trauma so that you can immediately assess where to start picking up from the damages.
But typhoon is predictable. All global weather stations are capable of predicting the movement of a typhoon and they have color-coded the gradation of water levels in flood for people to know the proper date of evacuation. These movies Flood Water 1 and 2 are visual storification of disaster management. My insights from these are as follows:
1. Emergency warning should be done a week before a typhoon hits a certain geography. That will provide ample time to organize the disaster management response, the location for evacuation, the humanitarian support during and after typhoon, and the post-disaster assessment team to immediately ascertain the damages and destruction. It will also increase the capacity to save lives and protect the essentials of a family.
2. Do not cut the communication line. Communication is fundamental for disaster response, humanitarian action, and for people to communicate with the families and local government.
3. People are emotional. True. But this is a time not to panic; to be rather rational. Disaster demand focus and rational decision-makings. There is less room for emotionalism during emergency in order to survive.
4. Your survival will begin with yourself. The disaster response team comes later, if they can come. You are advance or ahead from the rest of the innocents if you (a) know how to monitor your daily weather forecast, (b) determine the influx of water during rainful, (c) know the evacuation site or build your own evacuation site, (d) readied your evacuation bag with your most important survival tool.
5. Your material possessions are irrelevant during calamities. Leave them if you intend to survive.
