Floods

Flooding is a natural disaster in which a land or area with a huge amount of water is temporarily flooded due to raising the level of water basins and riverbeds. The reasons for the increase in the level of these water basins may be different - intense rainfall or snowmelt, rupture of a dam, destruction of dikes, high waves or human activity.
Floods can cause significant damage to settlements, buildings, cars, bridges, roads and transport infrastructure.
Floods can endanger your life or your property. In case of flood danger you will be informed, through the established early warning and warning systems, other certain signals for the settlement or the mass media.
Follow the messages on the radio, television, local radio stations and follow the specific instructions according to the created situation.
Follow the instructions and the order established by the executive and local authorities and the rescue teams.

WHAT SHOULD WE KNOW IN ADVANCE?
Be aware of the risk of flooding for the settlement in which you live or work. Seek information from the municipality or town hall about the areas that may be flooded. Find out the nearest safe place, the shortest and safest route to evacuate. If your home, farm building or other property is located near a river and falls within its floodplain, watch the weather forecast or its level, especially in periods of heavy rainfall or intense snowmelt. Plan your family's actions in case of a flood in advance. Specify a meeting place for your family members, relatives or friends outside the flood area and specify how to communicate with each other.
Play the evacuation with your family from home and colleagues from your workplace. Participate in organized trainings in the village place or place of work.
Always keep your mobile phone charged.
Prepare in advance and maintain a "Survival Bag", placed in a convenient, familiar to the family place, which contains:
- flashlight with spare batteries
- the medicines you need;
- first aid materials;
- whistle, blanket, warm clothes, underwear with socks, hat, gloves;
- food and drinking water (rusks, biscuits or other similar durable products that do not require refrigeration or heat treatment), which are periodically replaced, following the expiration date;
- cutlery ;
- lighter (matches), rubber gloves, pocket knife, pliers;
- handkerchiefs, toiletries, personal hygiene materials, etc.
- backup mobile phone charger.