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Originally Posted by Bèsame*
Hurricane Season 2025
Last year, after loosing my Mom and then 2 major hurricanes, totally stressed me out. I will not put myself in that situation this year. I was ready, but I'll be better prepared going forward
I just went thru all my paperwork. I eliminated a lot of back pages of foreign languages. Streamed lined what is really needed and put them in a simple accordion file. It was easier, because it's just my stuff and not double bookkeeping with Mom's stuff. However I have a crap load of stuff that needs to be shredded.
Slowly I'm freezing water that I've filtered. It will act as a freezing element and drinking water later
Making lists and more lists. Things I need and things I know I want to take with, if I evacuate .
I'm watching the Atlantic and the Gulf closely.
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This is really smart. I'm going to put it all on my to-do list; these are great ideas. For the past several years, the hurricane weather has been travelling up the east coast and wreaking all kinds of havoc. It caused a real mess in North Carolina last year that they are still recovering from. I personally had a tree fall on my house several years ago and lost my chimney and a bedroom. It took over a year to work it all out with the insurance company, and I only recovered about 25% of the total cost, in the end. I didn't qualify for any help from FEMA. Over a year went by before all the repairs were finished.
All this stuff happens yearly now, yet we all (in north Georgia, anyway) act like no serious weather is ever going to come north of Florida. The day a hurricane actually hits Florida, and all the roads are crowded and hotels are full of people fleeing Florida, that's when people who live around here start buying up all the bottled water, eggs, milk and bread. A few people might remember to bring in their lawn furniture and other loose items from the outdoors.
And now, the Navy is no longer sharing satellite weather information with NOAA, and weather forecasters will no longer have access to predictive hurricane information. FEMA has been dismantled, so there will be no coordinating organization between the states or help from federal agencies like the Coast Guard.
The more I write here, the more frantic and nervous I get about the whole thing. Not only am I putting this stuff on my to-do list, I'm sharing it with my friends, family and local Facebook groups.