Golden Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction Council

Hi everyone!

Not sure if you’re safe from storm surges? 🤨🤨

Don’t worry! here are some simple safety tips to help you get prepared. ✅ Follow these tips, and stay safe and ready no matter what!

Before a Storm Surge 💛

📌Stay updated with weather forecasts and warnings from PAGASA or local authorities.
📌Prepare a “go bag” with essentials (food, water, clothes, medicine, flashlight, batteries, and important documents).
📌Identify safe evacuation centers or higher ground in advance.

During a Storm Surge ❤️

📌Follow evacuation orders immediately;do not wait until it’s too late.
📌If trapped, go to the highest level of your home.
📌Stay away from beaches, coastal areas, and rivers.

After a Storm Surge 💚

📌Help neighbors, especially the elderly, children, or those with disabilities.
📌Wait for official announcements before going back home.
📌Help neighbors, especially the elderly, children, or those with disabilities.

BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY!

From Hosea 4:6 [ESV], it said, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.”

While the verse speaks of a different context, we can relate this the same way to disaster preparedness. Ignorance has consequences.

For the lord gives us knowledge to help us and reduce the burden harm could give.

Ready to shake up your knowledge? Fire disasters commonly start small but eventually spread faster. Whether it is caused by nature or human activities, understanding its causes and effects can minimize this threat. Spark into our summary to help you understand and empower your community through awareness! Let’s turn our actions and knowledge into a better and safer environment.

Ready to shake up your knowledge? Floods may rise quickly but with proper knowledge and skills, we can stand above them. Dive into our summary to help you understand and empower your community through awareness! Let’s turn our actions and knowledge into a better and safer environment

Ready to shake up your knowledge? Volcano eruptions came from beneath the Earth’s surface that produces gases, magma, and ash that brings pressure and fear to everyone. Ignite into our summary to help you understand and empower your community through awareness! Let’s turn our actions and knowledge into a better and safer environment.

Ready to shake up your knowledge?

Landslides suddenly occur without a warning and it can sweep away everything in just a blink of an eye—but understanding its causes and effects can help us to be prepared.

Slide into our summary to help you understand and empower your community through awareness! Let’s turn our actions and knowledge into a better and safer environment.

Ready to shake up your knowledge?

Tsunamis may look like a normal wave at first but they carry an extraordinary power and energy that may disrupt our lives and livelihood.

Dive into our summary to help you understand and empower your community through awareness! Let’s turn our actions and knowledge into a better and safer environment.

Ready to shake up your knowledge?

What causes the Earth to shake during an earthquake? s it just a sudden movement of the ground or there’s something deeper than that?

Shake into our summary to help you understand and empower your community through awareness! Let’s turn our actions and knowledge into a better and safer environment.

These are the few emergency hotlines that you can call before, during, and after a disaster.

Please note that calling these hotlines for pranks and jokes can be punished under the laws of Presidential Decree No. 1727 and Republic Act No. 9514 or the Fire Code of the Philippines.