Floridians (and others): How are you preparing for the predicted very active hurricane season ?

[steve2470]

Florida braces for another active hurricane season

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/30/3424627/florida-braces-for-another-active.html#storylink=cpy

Florida enters the 2013 hurricane season on Saturday riding a seven-year quiet streak.

But quiet, as last season showed, is a relative term when it comes to the tropics, which are expected to produce a higher-than-average number of named storms over the next six months. Last year, South Florida and the rest of the state once again dodged a direct hit from a hurricane but didn’t exactly escape unscathed. Ask anyone in Sopchoppy.

Tropical Storm Debby popped up in the Gulf of Mexico on a Sunday morning in June persuading computer models it was heading west toward Texas, with the small Florida Panhandle town nowhere near the forecast cone. By that same evening, forecasters had it heading in the opposite direction toward the Florida coast.

Debby’s winds faded but some 30 inches of rain pushed rivers over their banks and even had sinkholes — in the words of Wakulla County emergency services director Scott Nelson — “puking backwards” as aquifers spilled over like springs. Flooding blocked roads and bridges, cutting off a town of some 12,000 people for several days and inundating hundreds of homes across rural North Florida.

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For myself, I should stock up on the usual essentials. Besides that, nothing. I've lived here so long, I'm kinda meh about them, despite being only 7 miles from the Atlantic coast.

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	I'm doing nothing at all
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	I'm stocking up on essentials
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	I'm moving out of Florida (or other hurricane afflicted area)
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	I'm buying a diesel generator
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	I'm moving to Key West or the Outer Banks of NC to enjoy them more (sarcasm)
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[malaise]

1. Will pick up the last of our supplies later today

Ready

[Turbineguy]

2. I'm too busy

avoiding being crashed into by other drivers to prepare.

[steve2470]

3. kick nt

[KG]

4. too broke to buy stuff to stow away. my plan is to evacuate to GA.

[oneshooter]

5. My on site fuel tank(100 gal.) is full and preped., generators checked(3), chain saws,

axes and buck saws sharpened, LNG tank for the house(100gal) is still 85% full. Pantries, freezers and stoe rooms are filling.

Ya, about as ready as I can be.

[lpbk2713]

6. I should be alright.

The biggest PITA would be losing power for a few days. The three that hit us in '04 (Lakeland) in six weeks time had my power out for six days totalled. This time around I know where I can get generators if I need them.