• Stay tuned to the weather service or storm warnings for advice; keep alert.
• Keep calm until the emergency has ended.
• Plan your time before the storm arrives and avoid the last-minute hurry which might leave you unprepared or isolated.
• If you have a boat, moor it securely before the storm arrives, or evacuate it to a designated safe area. Upon mooring your boat, leave it, and don’t return once the wind and waves are up.
• Board up windows of your house, apartment or business or protect them with storm shutters or tape. Danger to small windows is mainly from wind-driven debris. Wind pressure may break larger windows.
• To prevent outdoor objects from getting blown away, secure them. Garbage cans, garden tools, toys, signs, patio furniture, and a number of other harmless items become missiles under the force of the hurricanes winds. Anchor them or store them inside before the storm strikes.
• Purchase enough drinking water before hurricane season starts. Have enough stored in your house, car and at work.
• Keep your car fueled. Service stations may be inoperable for several days after the storm strikes, due to flooding or interrupted electrical power.

DURING THE HURRICANE

• If you are driving and have no warning, drive perpendicular to its path and try to outrun it.
• Leave low-lying areas that may be flooded by high tides, storm surges or storm waves.
• If you are unable to leave the area, move to a designated shelter and stay there until the storm is over. If you must stay at home, move to the basement.  Avoid mobile homes. If you are in a tall building, move to the center or interior halls.
• Remain indoors during the hurricane. Travel is extremely dangerous when winds and tides are whipping through your area.
• Monitor the storm’s position though weather reports and advisories.
• Beware of the eye of the hurricane. If the calm storm center passes directly overhead, there will be a lull in the wind lasting from a few minutes to a half an hour or more. Stay in a safe place unless emergency repairs are necessary. But remember, at the other side of the eye, the winds rise very rapidly to hurricane force, and come from the opposite direction.

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