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Join our global discussion group on accessible travel! Connect, share experiences, and exchange tips to make every journey inclusive and enjoyable for all.
Come together to share experiences, insights, and tips on overcoming travel obstacles, discovering hidden gems, and planning incredible accessible adventures. We encourage open conversations about the broad aspects of accessible travel, while also directing you to country and topic-specific groups for more focused inquiries. Join us today and let’s explore!
Reply To: Vacation Disaster Preparation for People with Disabilities
When I travel, I do check potential weather hazards and try to avoid times of the year where there may be hurricanes, typhoons, heavy snow, heavy rain and the likes, as I know that if I’m caught in them, I’d have a difficult time moving around, to say the least.
As for earthquakes, there’s not much you can do, aside from what Josh said. When I was in Japan, I had bottled water and non-perishable food for 2-3 days on a closet, plus knew the evacuation shelters in my area (got them from the local city ward and, at the time, it was about the only thing that I understood from the whole lot of information, as they were on a map), mostly school playgrounds and parks. We had a grade 6- earthquake, on the Japanese scale, and I waited it out inside my apartment (which was quite new) and stayed there for a few hours as elevators stopped working.