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What To Do When A Hurricane Is Coming
So, when a Hurricane is headed in your direction, usually you have at least five days warning in order to prepare. So, now you ask yourself, “What do I do to prepare?”
Here are the steps you take:
Day 1: Nothing. You’ve been through the scares before. Most likely the weather reporter has it wrong.
Day 2: Nothing. You may watch the news to see what it is doing, but it’s still a couple hundred miles away and not anything major, so you go about your life like it is any normal day.
Day 3: Huh. The storm has now solidified into an actual tropical depression. That’s interesting. You check the weather channel for updates a few times throughout the day. Preparations? Still nothing. Surely the storm will turn away, or dissipate before it reaches you.
Day 4: Well, crap. The storm is close now. Rain may or may not be starting to fall. The wind may or may not be starting to pick up. The spaghetti model on the news is all over the place. Should you get sandbags? Go to the grocery store?
Step 1 day 4: Post on social media your panic and start asking about where to go for sand bags. When you get to those locations, half of them may or may not still have bags to fill. Some may even be out of sand. Huh. You live in an area where hurricanes and flooding is possible every…