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The Take Cover provides body conforming flotation padding protection to be used during disasters such as hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, earthquakes, and flooding.
About
The simplicity of the Take Cover is that it deploys from a padded square posture to a T-shaped configuration providing almost complete body coverage, which is essential in tornado and hurricane winds blowing debris exceeding 150 miles per hour. Our safety device is only composed of four components: neoprene material, flotation padding, web straps and Velcro and no metal or plastic snaps are used in its construction.
Key Benefits
We are emerging from a particularly troubling era of dangerous climate policy. In the United States and around the globe we are all experiencing storms and disasters intensified by climate change. The one myth you often hear is that, people refuse to evacuate, when in most cases the reason is purely economics, people disabilities, seniors and children with no means to go. Most of the natural disasters presently taking place are water-related and regardless if it is a flash flood or a hurricane's storm surge swimming in such violent waters as these is impossible. The solution the Take Cover provides is a common sense approach toward survival and having it handy as people conduct their daily routines.
Applications
Using the Take Cover provides an immediate life-saving response when faced with natural disasters and prevents injuries and fatalities. This safety device resonated as an alternative to provide to the less fortunate communities and countries due to the inequality and unfair distribution of emergency care and services. We have been taught to take cover when a tornado occurs by getting into a bathtub or a closet and to protect our bodies with a mattress. Mattresses are heavy and awkward to move for most adults and impossible for children or the elderly to handle.