Hurricane Prevention Techniques

Imagine finding out that there is a hurricane that is a category five hurricane is about to hit your home town and you hear that you must leave the area. In a situation like this most individual use both the avoidance and the loss reduction techniques for risk management to protect their self from the hurricane. When using the avoidance techniques when a hurricane is come most individual who are in a flooded area would leave their homes and go to a shelter or another town that is not in the area that is predicted to be hit by the hurricane (Hurricane safety tips ,n.d.). For example if there was an individual name Mathew is living in an area where he know is a flooded area he would be more likely to back everything that he think his family
would need to with stand the storm and he would take his family on a road trip a few days before the storm was supposed to hit. Mathew would drive his family to either another state to stay with family members who live in another state are a shelter that is on a high land and would not be as affected by the hurricane as if they were supposed to just stay home during the storm.
Moving on, to use the loss reduction techniques a few days of hearing on the news that a hurricane is coming most individuals would go out and buy items that are needed in their homes to make sure that their families are safe.
For examples to reduce the chance of an object breaking their windows and causing the wind to push items through the windows of the house most individuals put up storm shutters at their windows. If the individuals do not have any that comes with the house they would go out to a place that sells plywood like Home Deport for example and nail it to their windows. Another example loss reduction is use when there is a storm coming in an area is that a local news in the would issue a warning in the areas that are more likely to flood if there is a lot of rain to prevent the risk of a lot of individuals from dying as a result of not being able to swim. Individuals who are likely to be affected by a hurricane is more like to reduce the chance of their windows be break during a storm would upgrade their windows to once that can withhold a large amount of winds so that if the person is out of town during the during the storm the individual knows that their home will be safe while they are away. Individuals also use the loss reduction before a storm by making sure that object that are around their homes that would be easy for the wind to pick up are secure (Hurricane safety tips
,n.d.)
In conclusion, during a storm individuals who lives in an area that has a hurricane warning would either use the avoidance risk technique by leaving the area to a location that will be safe during the storm or loss reduction by preparing their homes for the storm so that while they are their they will be safe during the hurricane.