Labels: text | screenshot | font OCR: HURRICANE SAFETY TIPS (Note: Your SysOp may add additional comments to this file. ) 1. Enter each hurricane season prepared. Every June through November recheck your supply of boards, tools, batteries, non-perishable foods, and the other equipment you will need when a hurricane strikes your town. 2. When you hear the first tropical cyclone advisory, listen for future messages; this will prepare you for a hurricane emergency well in advance of the issuance of watches and warnings. 3. When your area is covered by a hurricane watch, continue normal activities, but stary tuned to radio or television for all National Weather Service advisories. Remember: a hurricane watch means possible danger within 24 hours; if the danger materializes a hurricane warning will be issued. Meanwhile, keep alert. Ignore rumors. 4. When your area receives a hurricane warning, plan your time before the storm arrives and avoird the last-minute hurry which might leave you marooned or unprepared. 5. Keep calm until the emergency has ended. 6. Leave low-lying areas that may be swept by high tides or storm waves. 7. Leave mobile homes for more substantial shelter. They are particularly vulnerable to overturning during strong winds. Property damage can be minimized by securing mobile homes with heavy cables anchored in concrete footing . 8. Moor your boat securely before the storm arrives, or evacuate it to a designated safe area. When your boat is moored, leave it, and don't return once the wind and waves are up. 9. Board up the windows or protect them with storm shutters or tape. Danger to small windows is mainly from wind-driven debirs. Larger windows may be broken by wind pressure. 10. Secure outdoor objects that might be blown away or uprooted. Garbage cans, garden tools, toys, swings, porch furniture and a number of other harmless itmes become missiles of destruction in hurricane winds. Anchor them or store them inside before the storm strikes. 11. Store drinking water in clean bathtubs, jugs, bottles and cooking utensils; your town's water supply may be contaminated by flooding or damaged by hurricane floods. 12. Check your battery-powered equipment. Your radio may be your only link with the world outside the hurricane, and emergency cooking facilities, lights and flashlights will be essential if utilities are interrupted. 13. Keep your car fueled. Service stations may be inoperable for several days after the storm strikes, due to flooding or interrupted electrical power. 14. Stay at home, if it is sturday and on high ground; if it is not, move to a designated shelter and stay there until the storm is over. 15. Remain indoors during the hurricane. Travel is extremely dangerous when winds and tides are whipping through your area. 16. Monitor the storm's position through National Weather Service advisories. 17. If the calm storm center passes directly overhead, there will be a lull in the wind lasting from a few minutes to half an hour or more. Stay in a safe place unless emergency reparis are absolutely 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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