Storms and Hurricanes

Details about emergency preparation, hurricanes, storms, flood preparedness, clear up and extra can all be present in our new Hurricane Guide. 

Information about residential healthcare amenities could be discovered on Miami Dade’s website. 

During a Disaster

Shelter in Place

Sheltering in place throughout a disaster or an emergency could be nerve wrecking. Sheltering in place whether or not at house, work or some other place could also be crucial when confronted with an unexpected disaster or emergency. The size of time you’re required to take shelter could also be quick, comparable to throughout a twister warning, or throughout a pandemic. In all circumstances, it is necessary that you simply keep knowledgeable and observe the directions of native authorities. If sheltering in place requires a chronic keep, you’ll need to handle water and meals provides to ensure you and your loved ones have what it’s essential to get by. This is why we suggest having a household emergency plan and an emergency provide package prepared.  Read extra about sheltering in place on the hyperlink under.

After a Disaster

Additional Emergency Resources

 

Heat Awareness and Health

Extreme Heat Warnings and Safety: What You Should Know & What You Can Do

The City of Miami is experiencing extra warmth than ever earlier than, and climatologists predict vital additional will increase in record-breaking temperatures for our metropolis sooner or later.  By definition, excessive warmth is a interval of excessive warmth and humidity with temperatures above 90 levels for no less than two to 3 days.  Learning about warmth’s impacts in your well being is necessary. 

Because Miami is subtropical, the hazards of warmth are sometimes underestimated. High temperatures are linked to elevated hospitalizations, deaths, and plenty of different hostile well being impacts. In reality, nationally, excessive warmth is answerable for the very best variety of annual deaths amongst all weather-related hazards.

For extra data and tips to beat the warmth, go to:

https://www.weather.gov/safety/heat

https://www.weather.gov/safety/heat-during

https://www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth/pubs/extreme-heat-guidebook.pdf

Remember:

  • Extreme warmth can happen rapidly and with out warning.
  • Humidity, as measured by the warmth index, will increase the hazard of excessive temperatures.
  • Heat is variable, and elements of Miami with much less shade and extra concrete and asphalt for instance, could also be a lot hotter. People can also be uncovered to extra warmth as a result of they work exterior or in scorching circumstances, their commute or as a result of they don’t have air conditioners or stay in poorer high quality housing. 

In excessive warmth, your physique works further onerous to keep up a standard temperature. Everyone is in danger from warmth, however some individuals face elevated threat:

  • Older adults are at larger threat of loss of life in heatwaves and are usually extra in danger for sickness and loss of life in larger temperatures, even when no warmth emergency has been declared.
  • Heat places further pressure on the center and different organs and folks with circulatory or respiratory circumstances in addition to people who find themselves chubby are extra vulnerable to warmth sickness.
  • Babies are in danger from warmth sickness as a result of their our bodies are poor thermoregulators. Children are additionally susceptible and could also be uncovered to extra warmth or be sluggish to comprehend or say they’re thirsty dehydrated.  
  • Exposure to excessive temperatures for pregnant individuals has been linked to untimely start, low start weight and even stillbirth. Pregnant girls are additionally extra susceptible to warmth stress themselves.
  • People who work in scorching circumstances, comparable to agricultural or building staff, are at larger threat and they need to take further protecting steps comparable to breaks and frequent entry to water and shade. 
  • Heat can have destructive impacts on psychological well being.  People taking sure medicine, comparable to some antidepressants, and consumption of alcohol or leisure medicine also can enhance threat of warmth sickness or loss of life.
  • Across the United States, research have discovered that marginalized communities, usually communities of shade or low-income communities, stay in hotter neighborhoods, hotter housing and have much less assets to guard themselves from warmth, for instance by means of air con. Low revenue staff usually work in scorching circumstances that benefit work lodging, particularly when pregnant. 

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