Posted on 09/05/2017 11:50:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
Having lived in Orlando since ‘59, it always amazes me the lengths people go to in order to protect their property during a hurricane. We’re 60 miles inland, in relatively high ground. My neighbors board up their windows for nothing!
Look, if an object is big enough to break a window, it’s going to be too heavy for even a 70 mph wind to lift up.
Keep trees trimmed, tidy up the yard and grab a few supplies (cash, propane, food, Jim Beam, extra ice). I have a little bottled water, but I’ll fill up jugs as a precaution, like Rush said. The jugs are for an EMERGENCY! If things get really bad, it isn’t going to kill me! 95% of the time, I just end up pouring the water out.
Always enjoy watching the neighbors taking down the plywood afterwards.
Many people make the mistake and buy those cases of water from gas stations that have them sitting out on the sun.
Speaking of Texas and cases of water bottles. I assume you have heard about some stores selling those cases for $100 per case and gas for $20.00 per gallon during the hurricane and flooding. The punishment is $20,000 for the gas station per fill up and $100,000 per case of water
Don’t you know that the winds of a hurricane can put a cotton ball through a bank vault door?
Afterwards they file huge law suits because the government didn't help them
Good advice. I just advised a friend in Florida to fill every empty container he has with tap water.
“distilled.”
???
Ha! No doubt. Don’t forget a hurricane can drive a piece of straw through a telephone pole!
You’ll know within two days if you are going to get hit. You should already have a destination picked out. You get up at 4AM, gas up and go.
I have a friend in Orlando. She would toss the kids in the car at 3AM while they were sleeping and go north where her mom had a house.
Don’t forget to fill the bathtub as well if they have one.
Yes you do need water to refill a flushed toilet,
If the municipal supplier has no running water????????
That’s because he is also the go-to guy for bullshit.
Rush sounds like the drilling I got from my brother last night.....pretty much said the same thing. He lives in Florida and explained about the eye wall and where the force is....how all the variables affect the strength ...and how land affects it etc. etc. etc.
They know they live in an area where Hurricanes can land...they prepare every year for the possibility, have back up plans in worst case...but get on with life even when the threat is as Irma now.
BTW.... people forget that ‘Office Depot’..’Staples Office Supply” carries bottled water too.
If i had a ranch house in Florida i would use my big forklift to move my cache of connex containers to surround my house, even if i had to double stack a few, chain them together.
Seal the bottom ones and flood them with a couple thousand gallons of water for weight.
LOL! Every. Time!
LOL!
Sometimes over winter we have power outages etc....I fill the bathtub with water for just "flushing"....LOLOL....Holds about 65 gallons.
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