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1. Ensuring a safe stay at home

Prepare reinforcement tools including wooden boards, hammer, and nails for use if rain and wind are forecast to become stronger.

Draw the curtains or close blinds, etc. of windows. This is to reduce the risk of shards being blown into the room if a window is shattered.

If necessary, stuff rags or similar into window frames and other places where wind and rain may enter. Move important objects to higher shelves or the like as much as possible to prevent them from being damaged by flooding.

2. Have a suitable stock of necessities

Because it may not be possible to leave your home for an extended period, make sure you have enough drinking water and food etc. Especially in households with infants or sick persons, any special needs should be covered in advance.

Filling bathtubs and buckets or similar with water may be useful in case of a water cutoff.

Prepare a grab pack of emergency items to take with you in case you need to evacuate.

Things to Take With You in an Emergency

3. Check evacuation routes

Make sure you know beforehand where to evacuate to and what route you should take. Decide on the place and route in advance and share it with your family.

Use information material such as the “Hazard Map” published by your local municipality to check which locations in your vicinity including your home itself are at risk of water damage. When evacuating, avoid dangerous locations such as near rivers or the coast and choose a safe route.

Disaster evacuation sites and shelters

* This link opens the official Osaka City website.

Ensuring Safety Around Your Home

Make sure to check beforehand that there are no fragile items or spots around your house and secure any objects that may be blown off.

1. Make reinforcements to prevent damage

Check roof tiles, slates, etc. for looseness. Provide support for things that may be blown down, such as splints for trees, struts for wooden fences, etc.

Cover mud walls and similar with boards, etc.

2. Ensure proper drainage

Ensure that gutters, rain pipes and similar are clean and free from leaves, dirt, etc. which may cause blockage.

3. Fasten objects that may be blown away

Reinforce TV antennas and other objects as necessary. Fasten items such as laundry poles, flowerpots, items on a veranda, etc. with ropes or put them indoors. Also don’t forget to bring in trash cans, signs, and signposts and anything else that may catch the wind.

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Hurricane and Typhoon Preparedness Checklist

Build an emergency kit and make a family emergency plan

Know your surroundings

Learn the elevation level of your property and whether the land is flood-prone, which will help you know how your property will be affected when storm surge or tidal flooding are forecasted

Identify levees and dams in your area and determine whether they pose a hazard to you

Learn community hurricane evacuation routes and how to find higher ground

Determine where you would go and how you would get there if you needed to evacuate

Make plans to secure your property:

Cover all of your home's windows with permanent storm shutters or 5/8-inch marine plywood, cut to fit and ready to install (tape does not prevent windows from breaking!)

Install straps or additional clips to securely fasten your roof to the frame structure

Be sure trees and shrubs around your home are well trimmed so they are more wind resistant

Clear loose and clogged rain gutters and downspouts

Reinforce your garage doors; if wind enters a garage it can cause dangerous and expensive structural damage

Plan to bring in all outdoor furniture, decorations, garbage cans and anything else that is not tied down

Determine how and where to secure your boat

Install a generator for power outages

If in a high-rise building, be prepared to take shelter on or below the 10th floor

Consider building a safe room

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A hurricane or typhoon is a type of tropical cyclone, or severe tropical storm. They form in almost all ocean basins. A typical cyclone is accompanied by thunderstorms, and in the Northern Hemisphere, a counterclockwise circulation of winds near the earth's surface (clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere).

All Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastal areas are subject to hurricanes. Parts of the Southwest United States and the Pacific Coast also experience heavy rains and floods each year from hurricanes spawned off Mexico. The Atlantic hurricane season lasts from June to November, with the peak season from mid-August to late October. The Eastern Pacific hurricane season begins May 15 and ends November 30.

In the Pacific and Indian Oceans, typhoons can affect all land masses from Asia to the Middle East to Australia.

Hurricanes and typhoons can cause catastrophic damage to coastlines and several hundred miles inland. They can produce winds exceeding 155 miles per hour as well as tornadoes and microbursts. Additionally, hurricanes and typhoons can create storm surges along the coast and cause extensive damage from heavy rainfall. Floods and flying debris from the excessive winds are often the deadly and destructive results of these weather events. Slow moving hurricanes and typhoons traveling into mountainous regions tend to produce especially heavy rain. Excessive rain can trigger landslides or mud slides. Flash flooding can occur due to intense rainfall.

Between 1970 and 1999, more people lost their lives from freshwater inland flooding associated with tropical cyclones than from any other weather hazard related to such storms.

Hurricane and Typhoon Preparedness Checklist

Build an emergency kit and make a family emergency plan

Know your surroundings

Learn the elevation level of your property and whether the land is flood-prone, which will help you know how your property will be affected when storm surge or tidal flooding are forecasted

Identify levees and dams in your area and determine whether they pose a hazard to you

Learn community hurricane evacuation routes and how to find higher ground

Determine where you would go and how you would get there if you needed to evacuate

Make plans to secure your property:

Cover all of your home's windows with permanent storm shutters or 5/8-inch marine plywood, cut to fit and ready to install (tape does not prevent windows from breaking!)

Install straps or additional clips to securely fasten your roof to the frame structure

Be sure trees and shrubs around your home are well trimmed so they are more wind resistant

Clear loose and clogged rain gutters and downspouts

Reinforce your garage doors; if wind enters a garage it can cause dangerous and expensive structural damage

Plan to bring in all outdoor furniture, decorations, garbage cans and anything else that is not tied down

Determine how and where to secure your boat

Install a generator for power outages

If in a high-rise building, be prepared to take shelter on or below the 10th floor

Consider building a safe room

During a Hurricane or Typhoon

Listen to the radio or TV for information and keep your weather radio handy

Secure your home, close storm shutters and secure outdoor objects or bring them indoors

Turn off utilities if instructed to do so. Otherwise, turn the refrigerator thermostat to its coldest setting and keep its doors closed

Turn off propane tanks

Avoid using the phone, except for serious emergencies

Moor your boat if time permits

Ensure a supply of water for sanitary purpose such as cleaning and flushing toilets: fill the bathtub and other larger containers with water

Find out how to keep food safe during and after an emergency

You should evacuate under the following conditions:

If you are directed by local authorities to do so, and be sure to follow their instructions

If you live in a mobile home or temporary structure - such shelter are particularly hazardous during hurricane no matter how well fastened to the ground

If you live in a high-rise building - hurricane winds are stronger at higher elevations

If you live on the coast, on a floodplain, near a river or on an island waterway

If you are unable to evacuate, go to your wind-safe room. If you do not have one, follow these guidelines:

Stay indoors during the hurricane and away from windows and glass doors

Close all interior doors, secure and brace external door

Keep curtains and blinds closed. Do not be fooled if there is a lull; it could be the eye of the storm and winds will pick up again

Take refuge in a small interior room, closet or hallway on the lowest level

Lie on the floor under a table or another sturdy object

Avoid elevators

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A hurricane or typhoon is a type of tropical cyclone, or severe tropical storm. They form in almost all ocean basins. A typical cyclone is accompanied by thunderstorms, and in the Northern Hemisphere, a counterclockwise circulation of winds near the earth's surface (clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere).

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ADVISORY: WHAT TO DO BEFORE A TYPHOON?

1. Listen to weather updates and advisories.

2. Keep watch for warnings and plans regarding evacuation in your community.

3. Check your house's condition and make necessary repairs.

4. Prepare a survival kit (emergency items such as canned goods, biscuits, water and first aid kits).

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