Points to remember before and after cyclone

•    Store extra drinking water in suitable covered vessels.

•    Keep drugs and medicines handy.

•    Check houses, secure loose tiles by cementing wherever necessary repair doors and windows.

•    Check the area around the house, remove dead trees or branches lying, anchor removable objects like   wooden posts, loose zinc sheets, loose bricks, garbage cans etc.,

•    Keep some wooden boards ready so that glass, windows can be blocked.

•    Keep furniture, implements, steel barrels, kerosene tins, garden tools and other articles in secure places.

•    Evacuate cattle from the low lying areas in quickly so that, they may not get struck on the way.