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Keys to Hurricane Survival - If You Must Evacuate
Prepare Yourself and Valuables
- Know where you are going. Leave early and in daylight if possible. Move your most valuable possessions that you can't take with you to higher points within your home.
For Shelters
- Take blankets or sleeping bags, flashlights, special dietary foods, infant needs and light weight folding chairs. Register every person arriving with you at the shelter. Unless the shelter is, "pet friendly," do not take your pets. Do not take alcoholic beverages or weapons of any kind to shelters. Be prepared to offer assistance to shelter workers if necessary, and stress to all family members their obligation is to keep the shelter area clean and sanitary.
Don't Travel Farther than Necessary
- Roads may be jammed. Don't let your stranded auto become your coffin.
Lock Windows and Doors
- Turn off gas, water, and electricity. Check to see that you have done everything to protect your property from damage or loss.
Carry Along Survival Supplies
- First aid kit
- Canned or dried provisions, can opener, utensils, etc.
- Bottled water
- Extra family medication, prescriptions
- Spare eyeglasses, hearing aides, and batteries if required.
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Keep Important Papers with You at all Times
- Driver's license and other identification
- Insurance policies
- Property inventory
- Medic-alert or devices with special medical information
- Updated maps to your destination