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Originally Posted by justjim
The biggest reason to not panic is to remember where The Villages is located. Those living along coastal areas evacuate to our area. Twice we had friends and relatives over from Brevard County and we had a great "Hurricane party". The last was hurricane Matthew last year in the first week of October. Unfortunately, we will miss the party as we will be in Illinois for wife's high school class reunion. However, our home will still be available if needed.
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Folks, for Florida, the center of the state
is the safe place.
Here is how you prepare for a hurricane.
1. Have an adequate supply of
drinking water. Depending upon how many people are in your household, go out and buy a few cases of bottled water. Enough for several days. Just in case.
2. Have an adequate supply of
canned food for the entire family for several days.
3.
Plan on losing household electricity. Have some candles, and perhaps a Coleman camp lantern for illumination. Have a couple of flashlights and fresh batteries.
Have a battery operated radio for the likelihood that you will lose cable or satellite TV due to losing electricity.
You can go for days without electricity. Pretend you are out camping in the woods, except you have a nice house to stay in instead of a tent.
The odds are you will still be able to cook on your gas stoves.
(I have camp stoves and a propane gas grill. Cooking is no problem. Mainly I heat up soups and other canned goods.)
4. Fill up the gas tanks on your car and your golf cart. After a few days you may need to go get water or groceries.
You can handle this.