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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Anyone who's spent most of their lives in New England is at least SOMEWHAT of a prepper by the time they retire to Florida. Hurricanes are just a part of our life. The only thing we don't have down here, that we did have up north, are basements. That makes hurricanes scarier to us. But when I lived outside Boston, I lived in a walk-up apartment over a bodega, next door to the fire department. During one of the big hurricanes, I did what we were told to do: open up ALL the windows and doors, except the bathroom (which had no window). Secure all drawers with masking tape, put away any loose anything in cabinets and cupboards and secure THEM with masking tape. Put the cat, the litterbox, food and water in the bathroom.

Then I went next door and watched the hurricane pass by from the safety of the brick fire department. When it passed, I went back home and saw that one of the curtains had ripped off the curtainrod, another one was in tatters, and one of the chairs for the kitchen table had flown across the room and was on its side with a broken leg.

That's it. Everything else was fine (including the cat who was traumatized but got over it). Part of the roof of the building had been shorn off, but that was the next floor up. I had some water damage on the ceiling from where it poured in from the hole in the top floor, but nothing the landlord couldn't fix with some scraping and spackle.

We were out of power for two days. At that time, I didn't drink milk, and lived mostly on ramen noodles and hotdogs anyway because I was an idiot college student with a miraculous digestive system typical of idiot college students. So I did fine in the food department.

Here’s hoping Ian dies to a tropical storm that doesn’t spawn tornadoes, but it’s unlikely. I understand that your home is manufactured and I hope there is quick refuge in sturdy buildings for everyone with these homes if the tornado warning sounds.