As the hurricane season gets underway, experts at the American Automobile Association are warning that not everyone who lives in a hurricane impact zone is prepared for a disaster. According to a recent AAA survey, about half of the polled residents in Georgia and North Carolina said they make advanced preparations for tropical cyclones or severe weather.
Results from Florida and South Carolina were more encouraging, with more than three-fourths of the population estimated to take preparedness steps before a storm. Just as concerning to the association were participants who said they would ignore warnings to evacuate in the event of a hurricane.
According to the survey, more than half said they would only leave their homes if an approaching hurricane was a Category 3 or stronger and 24% of Floridians said they would ignore warnings to leave altogether, regardless of how intense the system was.
If they leave, how would they be able to do this?
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And just what do you do when, like last year with warnings that Ian (completely incorrect BTW) was going to submerge the Key (someone on the town board had a good sense of humor), the town of Longboat Key closed all Emergency Services in the face of a impending possible emergency telling the emergency people to get out, in addition to raising the bridges, making travel to the mainland impossible.
ReplyDeleteChicken Little: Run. Run for your lives. The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
If government actually protected evacuated homes, let people return when THEY wished to return, etc. the evacuation rate would be far higher. Worthless government making every situation worse.
ReplyDeleteMy first supervisor in the military has a house he designed and built in Largo FL while he was on active duty. It is a slab concrete foundation with poured 6" thick cement outer walls with a 4" cement ceiling three feet off of the ground that is one block off the beach. It was heavily reinforced with rebar and they used the fiber impregnated concrete when they poured it. It was designed to be hurricane resistant. He has a 7KW LP Generator in the Attic, 350 gallon LP tank in the back yard, and a 1500 gallon cistern in the attic as well. The water goes through a reverse osmosis filter. He also has a shallow well to water his yard and garden. He keeps a 6 month supply of food on hand, He lost his solar paneled roof last year in the hurricane but had no water get inside the house. His inverters and batteries were safe inside the storage are in his garage. The panels were 23 years old and insurance covered a new roof that is made up of the solar panel roofing tiles, the latest technology in solar panels.
ReplyDeleteDuring the building process I got to help wiring the electricity, CAT-5, cable, and 4-wire telephone in the house. Our military jobs were tactical telephone switching, message switching, Crypto, and multiplexing. I knew electrical because I helped my dad build a house when I was a teenager. The wire run tie-off of telephone and a heavy dose of OCD had the wire runs laid out in a manor that the building inspector saw the 200 Amp distribution box and signed off immediately without checking anything else.
Another factor in not evacuating is the stupid storms often shift at the last minute. Evacuate your home and go somewhere 'safe' and the stupid storm switches paths and plows the evac site. Happens all the time.
ReplyDeleteAs to Cat 2 or less, as long as your roof is in good shape and the local utilities have kept the lines clear and you don't live on the beach, eh, it's just a heavy rainstorm. And Cat 3 is very survivable as long as the storm surge isn't bad.