Wind Snow and Natural Disaster Response

In outdoor sports, the most serious type of emergencies that we must learn to deal with is the natural disaster. Only by mastering enough common sense and ability can you protect yourself from the outdoors. It is your own protection from nature. Here are some of the major natural disasters that may be encountered in outdoor sports and how to deal with them.

Landslides and mudslides

Landslides and mudslides are the most dangerous and most likely natural disasters encountered during mountaineering. Landslides and mudslides are usually washed by continuous heavy rain or heavy rain, resulting in the loosening of the soil layer of the mountain. In addition, the joint structure of the mountain itself is fragile, resulting in a large area of ​​landslides. Debris flows are very destructive and the fast-moving mudslides are sufficient to engulf everything in their path, trees, animals and even houses. How can we escape when the mudslides hit? If you are in the valley or on the mountainside, when the mudslide comes from above, immediately run uphill on both sides of the slope perpendicular to the mudslide. Remember that you want to run high and must not run down. The sooner you run, the better. If there is something left behind, don't go shouting. Life is important. If it is too late to run, quickly find a hard rock under the arm.

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To learn to judge the advent of mountain torrents, it is generally a sign of torrential rain if there are large, unrestrained dark clouds on the way to the mountain. Heavy rain will inevitably trigger flash floods. Therefore, if you decide that the rainstorm is coming, you must hurry down the hill with the fastest speed. You may be able to drive quickly before the storm.

If a torrential rain arrives on the hillside, your safety rope will come in handy. Find a stout tree and fasten the safety rope. After the safety rope is fastened, grab the rope and quickly move down the hill. If the time is enough for use, use a safety lock to use it more safely and conveniently.

If you do not have a safety rope, you will need to find a place where the trees are dense. In general, there will be dense pine trees on the slopes. At this time, we must find ways to walk through the trees and grasp the trunks from one tree to the next. Until the downhill.

Leaving riverbeds and low-lying lands, as the saying goes, water flows downhill, mountains ask riverbeds and low-lying areas, where floods converge, and are vulnerable to flooding and flooding. When floods flood, rivers and lakes are also dangerous places. Do not stay or camp in these places. Do not stay at the foot of the mountain or in the valley. The foothills and valleys are vulnerable to floods and are easily damaged by rain washed away by falling rocks. They are vulnerable to mudslides and landslides. Therefore, when encountering heavy rain in the mountains, they must not stay at the foot of a mountain or in a valley for a long time. Escape quickly.

Lightning weather

Before going outdoors or climbing, you must look at the weather forecast, understand the weather conditions of the day, and avoid thunderstorms.

Do not hide in the thunderstorm under the big tree. Especially in the wilderness, there is an independent tree. Members can easily attract attention from thunder and lightning, so it is very dangerous to avoid thunderstorms under the big tree. If it is a piece of dense forest, you can use the jungle to avoid the risk, because the opportunity for lightning strikes in the jungle is almost the same. When the forest is in lightning. Do not rely on tall trees. Keep a distance from the surrounding trees.

Leave the heights. When you are standing high or at the highest position, you are closest to the bottom of the cumulonimbus cloud. Because of the induction of the role of electricity generation and the characteristics of the first and lastest distances, standing on the heights is easy to be hit. Therefore, in the days of thunderstorms, stay away from the tops of mountains, hills, prominent rocks, and relatively high points, stay in relatively low-lying areas or hide in caves.

Get out of the water and wetlands as soon as possible. Water has good electrical conductivity, and the open water is like an open ground. People easily become the convex point of the surface and are easily hit by lightning. In the event of a thunderstorm, the activities in the water should be stopped immediately, leaving the water's edge and going ashore as soon as possible. It is also easy to conduct current on the wet ground, and dry ground should be selected as soon as possible. If there are many people, they should be separated from each other by a certain distance.

If you suddenly see the lightning and then immediately hear thunder on the way, then you must be careful. At this time, you must stop and wait until the thunder is gradually stopped before you can continue to travel and immediately seek a safe place to avoid lightning. If you stand in an empty place, you feel that the body's hair suddenly stands up, the skin feels a slight tingling, and even a slight "gLgL" sound is heard. This is a sign that the lightning will hit you. The emergency method is to immediately squat down, lean forward, put your hands forward on the knees, turn into a ball, hold your hands on your knees, keep your chest close to your knees, lower your head as far as possible so that the body does not touch the ground, do not lie flat on the ground.

The most important point must be calm when it comes to natural disasters outdoors. Do not panic. If you make good use of disaster prevention knowledge, you can effectively avoid disasters and save yourself.