What to do in a hurricane??

[Drouzin]

Originally Posted by sirron

Call me crazy, but if I lived in a hurricane zone, I would either rent a bank safety deposit box for documents and pictures...

Lol, I remember my mother going in her safety deposit box after Katrina. They poured the water out of the thing and handed it over to her. If you do the deposit box thing, make sure it's located somewhere away from the storm path. Personally I recommend just keeping your papers and pictures organized so that you can take them with you when you evacuate.

[jasper12]

If there is going to be a hurricane, don't grab your surfboard, and go to the beach!!!! Dopes. One guy has died.

Now, after the hurricane, it is great to go to the beach. We went, and found all kinds of stuff, and the ocean is still quite wild. We found tons of baby sea turtles, that washed way up on the shore, we rescued them, and put them back in the water. But, the wind had died down, and the rain had stopped. It was a day later.

[Speleothem]

Originally Posted by sirron

Call me crazy, but if I lived in a hurricane zone, I would either rent a bank safety deposit box for documents and pictures, or I would box up the most important ones and send them to myself via certified mail. Post storm, they would arrive back to me, dry and intact.

My bank flooded in Katrina.
The contents of my safe deposit box was a soggy, stinky mess.

[highcotton]

Hold On Tight!

[bustaduke]

Originally Posted by Drouzin

Lol, I remember my mother going in her safety deposit box after Katrina. They poured the water out of the thing and handed it over to her. If you do the deposit box thing, make sure it's located somewhere away from the storm path. Personally I recommend just keeping your papers and pictures organized so that you can take them with you when you evacuate.

This is so right. I thought of the same thing after seeing the bank vault being the only thing left on the Mississippi coast after Katrina that was rusted because it was under 30 plus feet of water.

Not to mention the accountants office I remodeled in New Orleans after Katrina. All the file cabinets had to be trashed because the paperwork was swollen and the drawers couldn't be opened.

busta