Battling Floods - a Guide to Survival and Aid

Publisher Marketing: Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - Awareness Information Differentiating Warnings and Watches Be Aware of Flood Hazards Plan for a Flood Instructions to Children How to Protect Your Property Chapter 3 - Assemble a Disaster Supplies Kit Prepare Your Kit Disaster Supplies Kit Basics Evacuation Supplies Kit To Build a Makeshift Toilet First Aid Kit Sanitation Disaster Tools Chapter 4 - What to do Before Flooding Occurs What to do During a Flood WATCH What to Do During a Flood WARNING What to do if You Are Driving During a Flood What to do After a Flood or Flash Flood After returning home: Chapter 5 - Treating flood injuries Bleeding Lacerations and Cuts Sprains and strains Snake bites Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Preface Floods are the rage of nature brought about by the combination of its wrath and human negligence. We will try to explain the techniques and tips for flood survival, in this book. We start off by explaining the different kinds of floods, what causes them, and how human actions have increased the level of flood intensity over time. Awareness is a strong weapon and one of the most useful ones in combating any natural calamity. We explain the associated risks with your various locations and give you advice in coping with different scenarios. Section three leads you through every tool necessary for battling and defending these scenarios. Coping with disaster without first aid and helping materials is a catastrophic situation. Lastly, we guide you further in matters of what to do after a flood and finish off with the first aid techniques for the most common injuries that you might have the misfortune to face. Contributor Bio:  Davidson, John John Davidson was born in Barrhead in Renfrewshire in 1857. He spent his childhood years in Greenock, and after working as a pupil-teacher and briefly attending Edinburgh University, taught in schools in Glasgow and Perth. In 1989 he moved to London where he made his living as a journalist and critic. Several dramas had been published while he was still in Scotland, but in the 1890s he turned to poetry, and published several collections which were very popular: In a Music-Hall (1891) and Ballads and Songs (1894) amongst them. These were poems which chronicled urban working class life, and his sense of outrage at the poverty of the ordinary man, as expressed by the much-anthologized 'Thirty Bob a Week'. At the beginning of the new century he moved away from the lyric and began writing in blank verse which incorporated much scientific language; this series of Testaments were not as successful as his earlier ballad style, though Hugh MacDiarmid was to pay tribute to Davidson's attempts to combine poetry with scientific ideas. Despite the early popularity of the poetry, financial difficulties constantly plagued Davidson; he had had no choice but to continue with the journalism he disliked in order to support his family and other dependents. Sadly the money worries, combined with ill-health and depression, drove him to committing suicide in 1909.