Hurricane help when you need it! Before it happens and after it hits.
Our Hurricane Season Begins June 1st. Here's stuff to learn about (or remind us what we already know) what you can do to be prepared and help you'll need if we have another season like last year! 
DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT MY ENTRY ON THE TAX FREE TIME BETWEEN MAY 21st - JUNE 1st (It is said to cost FL $41 Billion to do so!) SEE WHAT IS INCLUDED. GET YOUR HURRICANE SUPPLIES. WRITE OUT YOUR LIST: GO PREPARED TO GET ALL THE THINGS YOU NEED!
FIND MORE ABOUT NEW FLORIDA IN FLYING ENTRY: New Florida WPBT Channel 2 www.newflorida.org More from this site www.newflorida.org/video.html All videos are encoded in Windows Media format.
PLEASE COPY THESE USEFUL THINGS YOU'LL NEED IN AN EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY. Useful connections to things you'll need to know in the time of an emergency. USEFUL LINKS:
* Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) www.fema.gov
National Hurricane Center/NOAA www.nhc.noaa.gov
Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) www.floridadisaster.org/
American Red Cross www.redcross.org
Red Cross Florida chapters www.tallytown.com/redcross/chapters.html
Florida Department of Financial Services (FLDFS) www.fldfs.com
State Farm Insurance www.statefarm.com
All-State Insurance www.allstate.com/
Salvation Army (Florida) www.salvationarmyflorida.org/
BellSouth Repair online request form http://www.bellsouth.com/myAcct/repair_service.html?src=gnav
Important phone numbers:
Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) 850-413-9900
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 800-621-FEMA
Department of Financial Services Insurance Claim Hotline 800-22-STORM
Contractor License Verification 800-487-1395
Report Insurance Fraud 800-342-2762
Report Unlicensed Activity 850-488-6603
Attorney General Price Gouging 800-646-0444
FP & L - 1-800-4OUTAGE (1-800-468-8243)
BellSouth Repair 611 or 1-877-REPAIR8 (737-2478)
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These below are: Presented by WPBT Channel 2.
Surviving the Storm - a New Florida special presented by Channel 2 Surviving the Storm - a New Florida Special, examines the wicked weather of Florida Hurricanes. www.newflorida.org/storm
How to Recover Surviving the Storm - a New Florida Special, examines the wicked weather of Florida Hurricanes. www.newflorida.org/storm/recover.html
For Kids Surviving the Storm - a New Florida Special, examines the wicked weather of Florida Hurricanes. www.newflorida.org/storm/forkids.html Technology Surviving the Storm - a New Florida Special, examines the wicked weather of Florida Hurricanes. www.newflorida.org/storm/technology.html http://www.newflorida.org/new.xml
Storm of 1928: Hurricane Katrina may be the deadliest hurricane in recent memory, but, here in Florida, the unnamed storm of 1928 was far deadlier. With no early warning system in place, most of South Florida 50,000 residents had no idea that a category 4 hurricane was headed their way. So when it hit on the evening of Sunday, September 16th, 1928, thousands of unsuspecting Floridians were literally washed away. New Florida remembers this terrible storm and the victims it claimed.
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This is NOAA Which links to these weather resources: Hazards : Tropics : Radar : Satellite : Obs : Forecast : Marine : Climate : OnTheGo
National Weather Service Home http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/
South Florida Weather Forecast Office 11691 SW 17th Street Miami, FL, 33165 (305) 229-4550, weather info(305) 229-4522, administrative Web Master's E-mail: sr-mfl.webmaster@noaa.gov Page last modified: January 17, 2005 ___________________________________________________
Are You Ready for a Hurricane?
Here's what you can do to prepare for such an emergency
Know what a hurricane WATCH and WARNING means
✔WATCH: Hurricane conditions are possible in the specified area of the WATCH, usually within 36 hours.
✔WARNING: Hurricane conditions are expected in the specified area of the WARNING, usually within 24 hours.
Assemble a Disaster Supplies Kit containing
✔First aid kit and essential medications.
✔Canned food and (manual) can opener.
✔At least three gallons of water per person.
✔Protective clothing, rainwear, and bedding or sleeping bags.
✔Battery-powered radio, flashlight, and extra batteries.
✔Special items for infant, elderly, or disabled family members.
✔Fill your car gas tank.
✔Check batteries and stock up on canned food, first aid supplies, drinking water, and medications.
Found on 2 page pdf: First page is what to do before and after a Hurricane. Second page is a check list of things to remember.
http://www.tallytown.com/redcross/library/AreYouReadyForAHurricane.pdf
Remember your pets as they cannot go with you to a shelter. Maybe you have made arrangements for them to go some where safe? Just in case your home is damaged where they get out? And lost. Please put ID on them or get them chipped!
Remember your medications. And put important papers in sealed plastic bags. Send copies to relatives or friends away from the disaster area so you'll have copies if you get destroyed here.
And last year I could have used a doctors note to get Rich into ER for Dialysis. As our DR said to come in to the hospital and ER turned us away. We had to go through the Kidney Foundation to find emergency treatment. He was on his 5th day without treatment, showing stress and a man who didn't have an advocate for him did die after 5 days alone. Rich was concerned that I was not taking go here go there w/o knowing for sure I had a chair. He said I wasn't making friends, Trying to work with very poor coverage and service with the cell phone. I didn't care. All I wanted was to get him 2 hours! And as we had fumes for gas and no money, I was not going around blindly! All he wanted to do was go home to bed. I said yeah, and you'll die! And that was w/o knowing about the other man.
And please if you use a generator (please don't run it if FPL is on a pole near your home. It will electrocute him) or a gas grill please know how to use it before you get injured! Read those instructions, ask questions, get advice! Also the tree trimming is best left to the experts because many people get injured by chain saws. And ask some one to help with taking down your shutters, as a man was killed when the wind blew it away from him and he fell off the ladder ~ recommended for older citizens.
Have a safe place to go to in your home. There was a family that went into a closet, and still the mother was killed, as a beam collapsed on her, But this is still a good idea to do if you have no other safe place, if you have not gone to a shelter. Stay away from your windows. As they are very possibly going to get damaged. This includes your sliding glass doors, as last year I heard a lot of people were leaning against them trying to prevent them from coming off the tracks while they shook alot.
Have plans to meet at a specific place if you get seperated from family members.
Ask your cable/satalite, and phone service to suspend your accounts, and get credits for lost time of no service. Comcast did poorly at this but Direct TV was wonderful. Bell South also came through. Some Credit Card companies said they would help defer payments, not add fees if you went over your balance allowed. MBNA is the only company that sent me an email of how much they donated and how they would help as we were definitly in the Disaster Area, being Broward County. I was shocked to find that not all cards are equal in their sympathy or understanding for waiving payments...See what you can find out about yours.
And The Salvation Army really came through for us with meals. There was just a little problem with the news getting out for accuracy. But people come from far away to help us in our times of need. These people had just come from New Orleans with Katrina. And then were for us with Wilma. Lunch was a simple hot dog, fruit, a drink and dinner was a corned beef mash with rice. It was very well organized in how they set up the line, with police help. And there was more time waiting to for them to set up than to get served once they opened the line, as they brought a truck to the shopping center near us. And there were stories of people who's homes had burned down, or their roofs were gone, or every thing they owned in their trailer was now like a pile of rubble. Tornados hit in hurricanes. There are still mobile homes down the street that have not been buldozed or replaced.
I was watching roofing material come off my roof. I was so sick. Then my neighbor said she would have a friend check the dish and my roof for me. Good news. Not my roof. And my satalite was only knocked out of reception. But it was her roof to our Townhome, and just last week moved back in. She was totalled when the air conditioner got blown away. She had water coming in her house for weeks. Even on the first floor, she could have had ducks swimming! This same thing happended to three people in my villiage. There are insurances that will fight for what is not what they coverage. And what your condo association has to cover. Before the hurricanes I always call and make sure what my coverage is. And then make sure the association is covered! One never knows. And our insurance dribbled out the payments, making the damages expensive to be covered before they paid out!
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What I did that I found useful last year was bought a small rechargable generator for small things like a B&W TV I had. Of course, you need to have electricity to recharge it! . I can use it in the car. And it is a car battery charger, too. Cost about $80. It came in so handy! And I buy the flashlights that don't use batteries. I don't think the one that shakes has much light to it, but the one that I wind is fine. And then you don't have the cost and bother of batteries. And I bought a Jeep radio/flashlight and that ate those batteries so fast! What a waste!
For more information, contact your local Red Cross chapter, National Weather Service office, or emergency management agency. You can also visit these Web sites: Available above
* With FEMA Every onecontroversy is a contraversy to put this here. But if you don't have insurance, and a flat roof, they might be helpful to you! Well, you can only try and be said 'no' to? As they did come through for 2 people I know and they did put the blue tarps on roofs that didn't have tile or were not flat. To no fault of theirs there are still homes near me with them up!
Please remember not to go outside in the quiet of the storm. There are so many people killed because of being electrocuted from hidden lines under water. And their loved ones get rescue trying to resque them. And there were people killed driving when they were told to stay home inside! Two people right by me, driving got hit by falling trees. I guess when it is your time! And a man heard some thing on his mobile home roof, which was a killednd he got killled by a branch that fell on his head. And people have diven off the sky ways on the highway, which one was blown totally away, which was new construction!
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Found on:National Weather Service Forecast OfficeMiami-South Florida http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/news.php Local South Florida Weather News
http://www.tallytown.com/redcross/hwaw.html
With these links: Florida's National Weather Service Offices : Jacksonville Forecast Office : Key West Forecast Office : Melbourne Forecast Office : Miami / South Florida Forecast Office : http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mia/ : Mobile / Pensacola Forecast Office : Tallahassee Forecast Office : Tampa Bay Forecast Office : State of Florida Division of Emergency Management : State of Florida Department of Education
Read the details: Major and/or Recent Hurricanes
2005 Oct 24 ~ Cat. 3 Hurricane Wilma : 2005 Aug 25 ~ Cat. 1 Hurricane Katrina
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