Guadeloupe


Security instructions for a hurrican alert.

Vigilance
3 days before, the hurrican is more than 1.500 km far from the coasts

Security instructions

  • Vigilance of the services.

  • The population does not have to take particular measures at this moment.

  • Each Friday before midday, TROPICAL WEATHER message with the Prefecture on the probabilities of a cyclonic phenomenon during the weekend.

Pre alert
1 ½ day before the hurrican, more than 1.000 km far from the coasts

Security instructions

  • weather report every 6 hours.

  • It is a phase of preparation for the populations: last purchases of precaution, preparation of the houses and the neighbourhoods.

Alert
6 to 8 hours before the hurrican, approximately 300 km far from the coasts

Security instructions

  • End of the commercial occupations, and of school. Each one joins its home or a shelter, end of the preparations.

  • Weather report every 3 hours.

  • The cells of crisis, C.O.D and PC are activated.

  • Circulation prohibited as soon as possible, and no more than 3 hours after the announce of alert.

PASSAGE OF THE CYCLONE PHENOMENON
Phase of confining

At the time of the passage of the phenomenon, specific information is broadcasted so that the population respects a strict confining in the houses or the shelters. Forbidden to circulate.

Phase of help
It begins with the air and terrestrial recognitions  and continues with work.