Erika Storm advice

[The Villages Guy]

Originally Posted by Spring Hillian

It can be scary when the lights go out and the wind is howling. It only lasts a few hours. Basically, follow the reccomendations in the hurricane booklets put out byn the local media.

Everybody should have a "hurricane kit" with the LED lanterns, flashlights, batteries, tarps, rope, etc.

Food stuffs like canned goods, ramen and other non perishable foods should be in your
pantry for the entire hurricane season. After the season is over use up those items and restock
in June. Powdered milk is good to have.

Window protection is really important. A broken window those howling winds to
be in your house. The wind can lift the roof off a house. In found the best protection to be
corrugated steel panels. The are light enough to handle and install. The thing is you really need
pre drilled holes with lead anchor sleeves to bolt the panels onto the house. Using bolts that you
can turn with a rachet wrench make the panel work much easier. Home Depot carries the panels.
If your garage door is not hurricane rated get the metal post that bolts to the floor and to the wall
over the door. U bolts hold the door to the post reducing the chance of the garage door blowing
in which is another avenue for the wind to lift off the roof.

There are many other tips like having a generator and empty gas cans. When a hurricane is close fill the
gas cans to fuel the generator. Forget buying a generator just after a storm.

Again, get the hurricane guides and follow the time proven advice.

Being prepared ia the key.

There has never been any protection to our cheap, crappy, single pane windows...which are twenty years old. I have no idea how they have made it. Every option we look at seems like a PITA and pricey, given the amount, size and shape of all our windows and sliders. We are torn as to what to do. It's not like we have one slider and six basic windows.

[LKJ1988]

Originally Posted by North_Pinellas_Guy

There has never been any protection to our cheap, crappy, single pane windows...which are twenty years old. I have no idea how they have made it. Every option we look at seems like a PITA and pricey, given the amount, size and shape of all our windows and sliders. We are torn as to what to do. It's not like we have one slider and six basic windows.

Just leave them like they are for another 10 years.

[dothetwist]

[kab0906]

No worries. It's now a tropical wave.

Rain and flooding is still an issue.