Preparing Your Flood KitPreparing Your Flood Kit

What’s a Flood Kit?What’s a Flood Kit?

An An emergency kitemergency kit that that would really help, if would really help, if there was a flood in there was a flood in your home.your home.

A Flood kit is very A Flood kit is very important if your important if your home is at risk - home is at risk - if you if you live on a flood plain or live on a flood plain or at the coast.at the coast.

What would be in it?What would be in it?

Important itemsImportant items that that would help you in an would help you in an emergency.emergency.

These are items that These are items that you could take you could take with with youyou if you have to if you have to leave your home. leave your home.

Or you might have to Or you might have to take take refugerefuge upstairs, upstairs, away from the flood away from the flood waters.waters.

Which Items Are Best?Which Items Are Best?

Things To Things To EatEat & & DrinkDrink!!

Bottled Bottled WaterWater Tin Cans of Tin Cans of FoodFood Biscuits Biscuits

How Would You Communicate?How Would You Communicate?

If your home is flooded If your home is flooded there will be there will be no electricity.no electricity.

You would need to be You would need to be able to able to call for helpcall for help – so – so take a take a mobile phonemobile phone..

You would also need a You would also need a battery-operated battery-operated radioradio to to find out what’s going on.find out what’s going on.

How Would You Keep Warm?How Would You Keep Warm?

As your central As your central heating may stop heating may stop working in a flood, working in a flood, you should pack:you should pack:

Some Some warm clotheswarm clothes, , like jumpers.like jumpers.

Also take Also take some some blankets.blankets.

And And waterproofswaterproofs!!

Other Other Must-HaveMust-Have Items… Items…

As there might not be electricity, don’t forget As there might not be electricity, don’t forget a a torchtorch!!

And just-in-case remember to put together a And just-in-case remember to put together a first aid boxfirst aid box!!

Important DocumentsImportant Documents

Don’t forget yourDon’t forget your important documentsimportant documents, ,

like like passportspassports and and insurance documentsinsurance documents..

Can you think of other Can you think of other things that would be things that would be useful?useful?