HURRICANE SAFETY RULES
When a Hurricane Watch is Issued for Your Area
- Listen to local officials
- Check often for official bulletins on radio, TV, or NOAA Weather Radio
- Fuel car
- Check mobile home tie-downs
- Moor small craft or move to safe shelter
- Stock up on canned provisions
- Check supplies of special medicines and drugs
- Check batteries for radio and flashlights
- Secure lawn furniture and other loose material outdoors
- Tape, board, or shutter windows to prevent shattering
- Wedge sliding glass doors to prevent their lifting from their tracks.
When a Hurricane Warning is Issued for Your Area
- Listen to local officials
- Stayed tuned to radio, TV, or NOAA Weather Radio for official bulletins
- Stay home if sturdy and on high ground
Board up garage and porch doors
Move valuables to upper floors
Bring in pets
Fill containers (bathtub) with several days supply of drinking water
Turn up refrigerator to maximum cold and don’t open unless necessary
Use phone only for emergencies
Stay indoors on the downwind side of house away from windows
Beware of the eye of the hurricane
Leave mobile homes
Leave areas which might be affected by storm tide or stream flooding
Leave early - in daylight if possible
Shut off water and electricity at main stations
Take small valuables and papers but travel light
Leave food and water for pets (shelters will not take them)
Lock up house
Drive carefully to nearest designated shelter using recommended
evacuation routes.
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