1. and how to protect yourself
Name 3 Weather Hazards
and how to protect yourself
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
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2. What is a weather hazard?
Do you know?
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3. A weather event that might cause damage or be dangerous to people.
Do you know?
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4. What types of weather could cause damage or be dangerous?
Do you know?
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5. Thunderstorms Tornadoes
Hurricanes
Floods
Blizzards
Heat Waves
Dangerous Weather
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6. Read pages
Do you know?
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7. Dangerous Weather What is a Thunderstorm ?
What kind of damage could it do?
lightning – flooding – fire – downed trees
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8. How can you protect yourself from lightning?
Read pages
Do you know?
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9. What is a hurricane? Do you know?
A severe storm with winds of at least 74 miles per hour.
These storms only occur near or above oceans.
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10. Do you know? What kind of damage could a hurricane do?
flooding – wind damage – beach erosion
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11. Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey on October 29, 2012.
Do you know?
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12. Halloween was Cancelled in New Jersey!!
Do you know?
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13. How can you stay safe in a hurricane?
Do you know?
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14. Do you know? If your governor tells you to evacuate – LEAVE!
Many people stay, but that puts them in danger.
Do you know?
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15. Pack an emergency bag - first aid kit, water, food, blankets, plus a radio
Remove any outdoor furniture that will fly.
Cover the windows and doors with plywood.
Stay inside, in the basement or in a room without windows.
If you have to stay…
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16. Read pages
Do you know?
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17. How can you reduce the impact of flooding?
Do you know?
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18. This is a levee. It keeps the water from leaving the lake too quickly and it controls where the water goes.
A levee is made of dirt
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19. A dam is made of concrete
Dams work just like levees – they slow water down and direct where it goes
A dam is made of concrete
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20. Dams are a lot more expensive than levees, but they are stronger and they can also be used to make electricity.
Do you know?
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21. Some people in New Jersey think that the dunes will destroy their view of the ocean.
But if they don’t have a dune then their houses might get washed away – and their neighbors might too.
Is that OK?
Flooding in New Jersey
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22. The government is helping us to build higher, and stronger dunes at the beaches to protect our towns!
When the next hurricane arrives the dunes will get destroyed, but some of our houses will be safer.
Flooding in New Jersey
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23. At the beach in NJ all new houses must be built on stilts!
That way the water flows under them.
That’s why the garage is always at the bottom of shore houses. (and also why the trash cans have fences around them.)
Flooding in New Jersey
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24. Building a stronger house.
What can you do to make your house safer?
Replace wooden doors
and garage doors with metal doors.
Replace your windows with shatter resistant, high impact windows.
Building a stronger house.
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25. Building a stronger house.
What can you do to make your house safer?
Install wind clips to keep the roof from
blowing UP in a strong storm.
Build on stilts.
Building a stronger house.
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26. Don’t mess with the dunes!
Do not carve a path to the beach that is shorter than the rest of the dunes – it might be easier to walk over, but it’s easier for the water to get over too.
Don’t walk on dune grass - you will kill the grass that holds the sand in place
Landscape your beachside lawn with plants
that have long, deep roots to keep the sand in place.
Don’t mess with the dunes!
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27. Severe wind can cause a lot of damage too.
Do you know?
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28. to learn more about wind.
Read pages
to learn more about wind.
Do you know?
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29. Get together with your group to discuss this problem:
You have just inherited this beach house in New Jersey.
You have also been given some money to fix it up and make it safe.
What are you going to do with this house to protect it and your family from the next hurricane?
Remember that this house could be hit with winds of at least 74 miles per hour. That pieces of other houses will be blowing around and that floodwaters might be as deep as fifteen feet.
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