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Ready for Action Phase
Action Checklist
- An Advisory Evacuation Notice MAY NOT be issued for your basin. If
an Advisory Evacuation Notice is issued, it may not allow sufficient time
for you to complete all your preparatory actions. If your business requires
additional time to prepare, you should consider beginning your preparations
early - before an Advisory Evacuation Notice is issued.
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REMEMBER, once a Mandatory Evacuation Order is issued, access to the
area will be restricted and you will not be permitted to return until
conditions permit.
- Implement this checklist when the "Ready for Action" phase is reached in your
basin or when an Advisory Evacuation Notice is issued, whichever occurs
first.
- Remember that you alone are responsible for safe-guarding your property.
- Meet with your employees. Notify key customers and suppliers.
- Unplug electrical equipment and raise it off the floor.
- Raise elevators to the second floor and turn them off.
- Remove toilets and close off sewers and floor drains.
- Remove and / or safeguard all toxic or hazardous chemicals.
- Empty safes and remove cash from site.
- Records to remove from site: accounts receivable, general ledger, tax returns,
checks, customer lists and orders, important contracts and other legal
documents.
- Protect the bottom two drawers of filing cabinets and desks by moving them to
a higher location in the office.
- Move your inventory to higher levels, move it off-site, or into trucks.
- Move your critical equipment to a higher place but DO NOT Block Levee Roads
or Access. Even heavy outside equipment may be carried away by rushing
flood water; it should be secured or moved.
- Take photographs of your completed preparations for insurance purposes and to
provide history for your next annual training
- Listen and watch local media broadcasts for Advisory Evacuation Notices and
Mandatory Evacuation Orders to be issued.
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