NATURAL DISASTERS: WHAT A FAMILY SHOULD DO IN THAT MOMENT?

In this blog entry, I will give some pieces of advice about what a family should do if they live a natural disaster and lose everything.

On first, it is difficult to explain that kind of experiences. Imagine, you have your house, your bed, a great TV in your living room and to a day to another you lose everything. It will be hard for you. But, in that moments you have to choose and always is better take care of the family.

Second, and the most important. THE FAMILY IS FIRST. Whatever the problem, you have to choose between safe the life of your parents and siblings, your wife and children's life or your Playstation and the ultimate Home Theater you bought the last month. The material things can recover (it can be difficult but not impossible), but if you lose the life of someone of your family, you can't recover it again.

Well, those pieces of advice were just for awareness about what kind of things are most important in that type of situations.

Now, I will give another kind of advices about what you have to do in the moment of a natural disaster.

• ·         Whatever the natural disaster, you have to gathering the whole family. If the house is not a safe place, look for a shelter or a place you can be safe.
• ·         If you have time to recollect some things, take necessary things like medicine, canned food and some clothes. But, if you don't have the enough time of that, as I told you, it is better take care of the life.
• ·         Keep calm, and this is really important specially if there are children in the family. When they see their parents of their oldest siblings worried, they start to ask a lot of things of, in worst cases, they will suffer like a trauma and convert the situation more difficult.

Those are some things you can do in the moment of a natural disaster but, the best advice i can give you is this quote:

 "It's better prevent that sorry".

• Keep a first aid kit in your house with the enough  basic medicines for a couple of days. If you don't have it, have it as fast as you can!. Keep an emergency kit, this is most complete. With some canned food, water, lamps, clothes, and all the necessary things to survive.  And keep in your cell phone the principal emergency numbers like the police, red cross or firemen. They can help a lot to find a shelter.
• It's important save money, imagine: you lose everything. You need to have some money to look for a place for the family. It can help to start again. We will never know what kind of things we will live, so, it is better to save some money for the emergencies.

Finally, Trust in God. This situations are really difficult and He's the only person who can help us to survive; He can give us the enough strength and wisdom to start again and survive the proof.