With extremes of weather, bushfires and strained infrastructure on the way, is your building ready for a crisis to become a catastrophe?
Between the dire warnings of the doomscrollers and the blinkered “she’ll-be-right” vision of climate denialists, it’s hard to know what summer will bring in terms of crisis and catastrophe.
We should be so lucky. There’s just as much chance that our windows will be shut tightly against swirling bushfire smoke while the air-con isn’t working because of a brown-out of electrical supplies, and the lifts are out becauseExpect the unexpected, they tell us. Whether it’s flood or fire, power outages or financial disaster, something is going to hit apartment owners – either out of the blue or sneaking up on us like a king tide.
A quick internet search for terms such as “flood barriers” or “garage dams” will reveal that there is a plethora of companies out there ready to install some sort of emergency water blockers. And supposing your lifts do go out, does your building have protocols that would look after the older and infirm who are either stuck at home or trapped on the ground?Blocks that don’t have a concierge or on-site manager – and that’s the vast majority – should consider establishing a “phone tree” where one resident calls three others to see if they are alright, and those three each call another three and so on.
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