BYCer's in Hurricane Zones

[dawg53]

A.T. Hagan it sounds like you've got a great plan for your tractors, anchoring well enough, not under any trees I hope lol. I feel the same way you do about evacuating...a strong cat 2 hurricane or above will get my attention and we'll probably hit the road with our chickens. I have alot of trees in my yard and my luck they'll all fall on my house or coop. I went thru Hugo in 88, in Charleston...about 12 hours of hell...it wasnt fun and I vowed that I'd ever put myself in that situation again. Let's all hope and pray we're spared from them like we have the past couple of years.

 

[Lorije1]

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I am in the FLorida panhandle as well... Pensacola. My mom has lived here the majority of her life (think "Camille" ) and she said Ivan scared her way worse (of course, she was in Pensacola, not Mississippi). I used a huge fat permanent magic marker to write my phone number on my horse's sides and let them stay in the pasture (our barn is open so they can come and go as they please). The dogs were on my folks back porch and I was sitting there with them watching the storm... it was magnificient and terrible. I lost the upper most roof on my barn, but my recently gathered hay was perfectly dry

I won't say "never will" , but we have never evacuated. No flood zone, 15-20 miles from the Gulf and about 10 miles from inland bays (Ivan had a storm surge through a bay that destroyed our interstate bridge ... http://tropical.woolcom.net/IVAN-1.jpg http://www.2004hurricanes.com/ivan/11.jpg http://www.2004hurricanes.com/misc-ivan-photos.html ). So since posting this I have been considering - at present I have 16 chicks and 1 48" wire kennel, a large dog crate and 2 small cat crates. I would probably put them either in my parents garage up on stilts / table or on their back porch. IF I were to evacuate, my parents have a 15 passenger van that the seats could be removed, so I may could use it as a rolling coop, opening the windows and doors when the rain stopped.



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[chickenlittle1980]

it depends where and how hard it is going to hit! I live on the boarder of NC/SC line 30 mins..... If it comes in at night I am going to put everyone in the garage, durring the day I can keep and eye on them. If I have to leave... it really will depend on my mom....she lives in a traile,r she may come ride it out here and bring her chicks..... then I would leave them here but if we both left I have enough dog creates for both dog cat and chicks




Stop it you all are scareing me!!!!!




gee was I drinking when I wrote this so many typos!!!!!!

 

[dparadise]

I'm in southwest Florida, about 20 miles south of where Charlie came in. We stayed and just let the horse run in his pasture, the dogs were also free to run around but seemed to like to stay with us indoors. I didn't have chickens at the time but I do now. We won't leave if another storm happens, the chicken coop is strong enough shelter for all of us to use. It will only have the chickens in it but they'll be safe.
It's too hard to get back to your property if you leave and I'd rather be at home living in a tent than stuck somewhere else. We survived for 8 days with no power, generators work great, they run the well pump for water, electricity to cool the fridge and freezer for a few hours and even my laptop for a bit to see what was going on in the world.

We're usually very protected from hurricanes here but the last few years, they seem to make a beeline towards us.

 

[Lorije1]

My parents live next door... so that doesn't really count as evacuating

After Ivan we were without power right at 4 weeks and the only way we got it then was my cousin who is a county building inspector told us since my mom is handicapped, dependent on electric powered medical equipment, and wheelchair bound we should have been on a "priority" list... finally just had the land line phone disconnected in November (Ivan was in Sept). My folks have gas stove and water heater so it was "doable". They also have a big generator so the freezer was kept cool and we could run a fan. I would hook up my computer for a quick check-in with out of town folks or those who left.

Pensacola has kind of a 7-10 year cycle as a rule - and we are in year 6. My 2 sides of my chicken yard and house are made up of a privacy fence - so the birds would have to be moved (I guess they are in kind of the mobile home of chicken houses?

so we all have to go somewhere! ).