Author: Elisabeth Button
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Returning Home After a Disaster: Supply List
Before you enter the home, check for gas leaks and damage to the electrical lines. If gas is leaking or the power lines are damaged, do not enter the home. When you return to your home after a flood or damaging storm, you will need items for cleaning up and making minor repairs as well…
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Disinfecting Water After a Disaster
After a disaster such as a hurricane or flood, your water supplies may have become contaminated or been temporarily cut off. To make sure your water is safe, follow these guidelines: How to Disinfect Water Boiling water is the best way to kill harmful organisms that can make you and your family sick. Use clean…
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Cleaning Flood-damaged Homes
Caution! First Steps Make sure that everyone is out of danger of new flood crests, fire, and falling buildings. Assume flood water and flooded materials are contaminated. Flood Insurance Claims Electrical Systems Food and Water Sanitation Until your local water company, utility, or public health department declares your water source safe, purify your water, not…
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Animal Disposal
Source: Texas Animal Health Commission After a disaster, Texans may face the challenge of animal disposal. Please use the following resources to guide you during this recovery phase. Livestock Horses Swine Dairy Poultry
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Disaster Recovery Resources for Animals
As soon as it is safe, livestock owners should check on the condition of their animals. Be prepared to take feed, hay, water, basic livestock first aid supplies, and wire cutters and other tools. Be extremely careful when re-entering affected areas because of debris, chemical spills and downed power lines. As soon as possible, move…
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Disaster Preparedness & Recovery eBooks
These disaster preparedness and recovery eBooks provide simple information on how individuals, families and businesses can prepare for and recover from a disaster such as a wildfire, hurricane, severe weather and more. To download these eBooks to your mobile device before a disaster happens, click the yellow ePub or Mobi buttons on the corresponding links…
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Floods
Flooding can affect many homes in Texas. When flooding occurs, it affects everyone for no other reason than the reality that management of flood risk and response to flood events consumes tax dollars. When your home, business or neighborhood experiences a flood, there are things you can do to minimize the damages, protect your health…
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Droughts
A drought is a period of abnormally dry weather that persists long etamu urban water conservationnough to produce a serious hydrologic imbalance. Droughts have wide-ranging adverse economic, environmental, and social impacts as rivers, reservoirs, groundwater levels, and soil moisture all drop. View resources collected by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and organized by department for…
