Hurricane Preparedness !
It’s that time of the year again. Hurricane season officially started yesterday and the media is already selling us Floridians on the fact that we are going to get whacked again. Makes good copy, I guess. The experts say we are going to have another above average season for named storms as well as major hurricanes. In my opinion 1 major hurricane is too many.
Do we need to prepare, sure. Do we need to panic! Of course not. Bottled water, batteries for the flash lights, lots of canned goods and of course my favourite Ramen noodles. Have some cash of course.
I had an interesting conversation with my neighbour yesterday. We were out in our drives fireing up our generators and discussed what we do with the stored fuel needed for our back-ups. He was going to fill up his 5 gallon containers this week and have them ready to go. Storing them in his garage. As his Insurance Broker, friend and neighbour (not necessarily in that order) I suggested it may not be the safest thing to do to have 30 gallons of gasoline stored in a hot garage for months on end. I like to fill mine up as soon as the projected path of a storm comes over Florida. Is that prepared enough, I think so. Maybe the price of gas will have come down by then, too!