{"id":82,"date":"2012-02-28T15:51:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T15:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2013-11-08T23:15:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T23:15:24","slug":"how-to-prepare-for-a-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/hurricane-awareness\/how-to-prepare-for-a-hurricane","title":{"rendered":"How to Prepare for a Hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"
So you\u2019ve been following the news, and keeping up with our hurricane tracker<\/a>, learning about when and where the current storms are going to make landfall. You\u2019re in the path of the storm and are wondering about the basics of preparing for a hurricane and where to get more hurricane information. In this article, we\u2019ll take you through some basics of hurricane safety and show you how to prepare for a hurricane, things you can do to ensure staying safe in a hurricane, and stress the importance of hurricane preparedness plans and emergency preparedness kits.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Some basic questions you need to ask yourself as you begin to prepare for a hurricane are:<\/p>\n If you plan on taking the \u201chunker down\u201d approach to hurricane preparedness, you\u2019ll need enough food, water and supplies to last you and your family at bare minimum, for 72 hours. Let me repeat, this is a minimum <\/em>amount of supplies. I\u2019d plan for longer. After Hurricane Ike, there were some parts of the Houston area that were without power for up to three weeks (more in some places). Watch this video<\/a> for a look at what you’ll need.<\/p>\n Fema has a great recommended supplies list<\/a> on their website<\/a>. They stress the following to ensure disaster preparedness in the event of any contingency:<\/p>\n Ensure that you and your family are prepared, and avoid making one of our 5 deadliest hurricane mistakes<\/a>. Get all of the hurricane information you can to ensure that you will be staying safe during a hurricane. For more up to date information on hurricane preparedness, visit our Hurricane Faq page, and learn about other hurricane dangers in Hurricane Spawned Tornadoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Also, be sure to check Fema\u2019s community and state information site for local updates and alerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this article, we\u2019ll take you some basics of hurricane safety and show you how to prepare for a hurricane, things you can do to ensure staying safe in a hurricane, and stress the importance of hurricane preparedness plans and emergency preparedness kits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2877,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.national-hurricane-center.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hurricane Preparedness Plan and Hurricane Preparedness Checklist<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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