• Store extra drinking water in suitable covered vessels.
• Keep drugs and medicines handy.
• Check houses, secure loose tiles by cementing wherever necessary repair doors and windows.
• Check the area around the house, remove dead trees or branches lying, anchor removable objects like wooden posts, loose zinc sheets, loose bricks, garbage cans etc.,
• Keep some wooden boards ready so that glass, windows can be blocked.
• Keep furniture, implements, steel barrels, kerosene tins, garden tools and other articles in secure places.
• Evacuate cattle from the low lying areas in quickly so that, they may not get struck on the way.
