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I must admit I've been a little slack getting prepared for this weekend’s weather. I’m just curious where I stand with regards to the rest of the city-data faithful. How are you preparing?
I plan on putting the patio furniture and the garbage can in my garage tonight. As far as supplies go, I have a candle, a radio, and a bottle of wine. I'm either poorly prepared for a hurricane or halfway prepared for a romantic dinner.
I'm not going to go crazy, but I do think I might pick up a few extra items this evening.
I'm mostly ready in case of the hurricane. Tomorrow evening, I'll bring inside everything I can that may be blown around - umbrella on the deck, bird feeders, and so on. The last thing I want is for something to be blown through one of my windows!
Does not look like it will amount to more than a little wind and some rain, nothing major. No prep for me. I'd be more worried about Ike but it looks like Florida is going to get that one....
I'm mostly ready in case of the hurricane. Tomorrow evening, I'll bring inside everything I can that may be blown around - umbrella on the deck, bird feeders, and so on. The last thing I want is for something to be blown through one of my windows!
Yup same thing with us. We will remove the outside stuff. If the storm shifts west then the potential for tornados exist. And plus after being through a few of these, those wind gusts even in regular storms can cause damage to outside stuff that is loose. Our hurricane kit has been ready all season. And so far looks like we might not need it.
Technically speaking, everyone should have a backpack or duffel bag or something already prepared so they can either get out of town quick if needing to evacuate, or survive at home without the need of a grocery store, power, etc..etc...
Personally, I have two backpacks stocked with everything from about a weeks worth of clothes, 6+ weeks worth of MRE's / Mainstay bars, featherlite camp stove and nearly a gallon of white gas, cooking/cleaning gear, bathroom toiletries, matches, candles, zippo lighter with extra flints / wicks / fuel, treated water in nalgene bottles, msr hyperflow water filter, tents, sleeping bags, plastic sheets, duct tape, first-aid kits, knives, saws, ropes, gloves, dynomo-radio-flashlight, fishing rods n' tackle, boy scout handbook, ammo and tons of other survival gear and knowledge.
I'm an Eagle Scout and always prepared. Especially after the last 8 years.
As for this weekend storms...think I might fluff my pillow and get some extra sleep...
I was actually wowing about how prepared bull_city_original is. I'll bet the people in Homestead (Miami) would have laughed about that list before Hurricane Andrew destroyed civilisation as they knew it.
Hurricane Ivan blew off my entire roof - yes, my entire roof, not a few shingles - and there was no electricity in my area for over a *month*. Some of the unluckier folks a little farther down from me did not get electricity back for up to three months.
I was living on a farm in Jamaica at that time, so we actually had most of the sort of things the bull talked about. because of flooding, we were trapped in our roofless house for almost a week. It was pretty awful.
I have to say that I'm not terribly worried about Hanna, but Bull is no fool! Bull will be the one everyone turns to when a disaster happens.
:-)
Jenny
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