Nice Tips to Handle Natural Disaster Properly

1. Early warning. The provision of timely information enabling people to take steps to reduce the impact of hazards. Early warning is typically multi-hazard and requires genuine ownership of, and participation by, communities and other stakeholders, e.g., access to information by local people concerning an approaching typhoon or tropical storm.

2. Make a disaster preparedness plan for your property ahead of time. Following a checklist in times of crisis can help focus your attention and keep you from missing important details.

3. Secure your property. Your two most important tasks immediately following a disaster are to ensure the safety and security of people working on site, and to keep valuable or important building fabric from the debris heap. Saving architectural fragments, building materials, decorative plaster, etc. can help with restoration later.

4. Recovery. Decisions and actions taken after a disaster with a view to restoring the pre-disaster living conditions of the affected community, while facilitating necessary adjustments to reduce disaster risk, e.g., assessing levels of future risk when planning housing projects in the aftermath of a disaster.

5. Print important documents ahead of time. Disasters often cause power outages and service disruptions, so in this wired age of computer and smartphone reliance, it's helpful to have critical info already at your fingertips.

6. Evaluate the damage. It usually costs less to repair or renovate a disaster-damaged house than to rebuild. Before gutting your property or deciding to demolish, contact your statewide preservation organization to find contractors with proven expertise in historic buildings who can walk through your property with you and help determine the scope of the damage.

7. Make a list. Inventory what was damaged or lost on your property. (This is especially useful in cases of total destruction.) Having an inventory will also help with your contractor bids and insurance claims later.

8. Check your insurance coverage. Older and historic properties often use materials or building techniques you can't easily replicate today, which makes insurance companies far less likely to cover damage. A great option for insuring historic homes is National Trust Insurance Services (a National Trust subsidiary). NTIS can help value your property and ensure sufficient protection.

9. Compile repair bids. Figure out exactly what needs to be done, write it down, and walk through your house with contractors to get a ballpark estimate. If it sounds reasonable, request an item by item detailed bid. Try to get three bids based on the exact same work and remember to verify the contractor's state license number and insurance.
Natural disasters can be destructive but knowing this information could be helpful and mitigate the damages of these events.

Religions and natural disasters

When a natural disaster happens, the first question often asked by religious people is: “Where was God?” both regarding the suffering that such natural disasters cause, as well as the role God in the unfolding of reality: did God cause the earthquake and everything else that followed?
There are two major opinions about analyzing natural disasters and how to react against it between believers. The first one is a traditional perspective considering natural disasters. This view connects with the concept of fatalistic view. This concept refers to belief that because natural disaster is God’s will so people can do nothing. The most common messages received by residents are that disaster is God’s wrath, warning and test, human sins, accepting disaster as a fact from God and the need for returning to God’s way to avoid next disaster. However, they agreed to take any action to cope with natural disaster supported by making ask to God.
The second view emphasizes the priority and importance of science. There are believers that natural disaster is a natural phenomenon instead of God’s will. They argue that religions acknowledge the importance of science and to encourage humankind to study about scientific phenomena.
In Islam, the religion-natural disaster relationship messages are focused on the stories of natural disaster in the Holy Quran, accepting natural disaster as God's will and the importance to ask protection to God. 
However, today we can claim that it is possible to get together these two views. Rebuilding and reconstructing buildings applying modern science, is the way believers do these days and it is logical. Indeed, there is no contradiction between religious concept and using modern science to reduce casualties. 
Besides, the important role of religion is after occurring natural disaster.

The role of religion in post-disaster such as reducing psychological its impact, religious-based organizations relief and assistance have been widely acknowledged.

In fact, every disaster always causes the feeling of worry, uncertainty, sadness and distress of the survivors especially those who lost their lovely family members.
Religious-based relief organizations have been playing important role both in assisting survivors socially and psychologically in building their life. In Islam, the Masjid is a sacred place preparing for such disasters to help people. It is not only a physical edifice, it is also a community-based religious institution which historically has been a focal point where political, social and religious activities are organized for the community. In many Muslim countries, during natural disasters masjid played important roles in collecting charity in the form of money and goods, organizing the community or as a place of refuge among others. Similarly, in Christianity we have Church that accomplish this duty and help people in post-disaster. For instance, in Texas hurricane the Church done her part to bring hope and aid to the victims. In addition, Archbishop José H. Gómez of Los Angeles called on bishops to take up a collection to support the victims and to rebuild impacted dioceses.
However, faith and religion can raise humanitarian activities to help people specially after disasters.

Today, major humanitarian organizations such as red crescent and red cross institutions is derived from religions.