[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by davephan

The hurricane is too far out till Sunday to know with more certainty about the risks.There are some things you can do now. Don’t drive around with a nearly empty gas tank. You can fill up your gas tank when it’s gone down to 3/4 full. Buy some five gallon gas cans and fill them up too. Make sure that you know your insurance information, in case you will need it.

We also keep about 20 cases of water, about 12 cases of paper towels, and about 12 cases of toilet paper. We don’t have our whole house electric generator yet, that we ordered in January, but we have flashlights and lanterns. We have a lot of non perishable food. We have a grill with a full propane tank, plus an extra propane tank.

At some point, you have to make the decision to evacuate or stay. Many people say if the hurricane is a category 4 or 5, they evacuate. If you wait too long to evacuate, it might be 5 mph for hundreds of miles. Along the way, there will be dead cars that are clogging up the roads that are simply unreliable cars, or they ran out of gas. Many people wait till their gas tank is empty before they refill their gas tank. That’s a bad habit. You might need those extra 5 gallon gas cans that are all full, if it takes hours to fill up your gas tank or the gas stations run out of fuel on the way up north. If you wait too long, it’s too dangerous to evacuate. If you evacuate too early, then you might have evacuated for nothing if the hurricane weakens or changed course away from your location. If you’re too stressed out, then it’s better to evacuate sooner than later.

This seems like over the top for people living in central Florida. Agree a good plan for living on the coasts.