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During Natural Disasters like the current Kerala Floods, Communities can pool in resources to help affected families fight the disaster.<\/span><\/p>\n Apartment Buildings being some of the tallest structures in the neighbourhood are well poised to work as relief Centres during floods.<\/span><\/p>\n During the Chennai Floods, DLF Garden City which is one of the largest apartment community in Chennai had organised relief measures <\/span><\/p>\n Managing Committees \/ Residents of Apartment Buildings can do the below during Floods:<\/span><\/p>\n 1) Arrange accommodation of the residents of ground floor flats in higher floors.<\/p>\n 2) Arrange accommodation of impacted residents outside the apartment community in higher floors of the building or clubhouse<\/span><\/p>\n 3) Arrange Community Kitchen that can cook food packets for impacted families. <\/span><\/p>\n 4) Coordinate with relief workers to see if Helicopter landing can be arranged on the terrace as most Apartment Buildings have large terraces for dropping relief.<\/span><\/p>\n 5) Typically Navy personnel provide Boats to Apartment buildings who are working towards relief work. The boats can be used for relief material to be distributed to families in the neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n To coordinate efforts and resources from Residents, you would need to quickly communicate to all of them.<\/span><\/p>\n