HELP! Advice to our Florida family in the track of Hurricane Ian

[Idaho Chicken Bungalow]

Is there anyone who has been through a cat 2,3,4 hurricane who could give advice to our Florida friends facing Hurricane Ian?

 

[Idaho Chicken Bungalow]

Should this be put in another forum? This is serious situation for so many including my friend @Pampered chicken girl

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Is there anyone who has been through a cat 2,3,4 hurricane who could give advice to our Florida friends facing Hurricane Ian?

Thank you for the help my dear friend.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Projected to be category 4 or higher when it gets here on Wednesday

 

[getaclue]

Are you in a home, apartment, or mobile home?

Fill your tank with gas, and any extra gas cans, in case you have to evacuate.
Get extra water. 1 gallon per person, per day for several days.
Get canned foods, and a non-electric can opener, and snack pack foods.
Get batteries, flashlights, candles, etc. OR the solar path lights work well too for lighting inside.
Have a bar-b-q grill, or camp stove. If you're going to cook with wood in the event of a power outage, put some smaller, and medium stuff on a tarp, then enclose it, so it doesn't get wet. Make sure it can't blow away.
Pick up, and secure all yard items that can blow around.
Secure your chicken coop, and other animals.
Track the storm as long as you can on tv, or radio.
Keep your phone/tablet charged.
IF you can, and it's going to be a Cat 4-5, build, or buy cages for your chickens, and put them in your garage, or inside a building during the hurricane. Make sure they have food, water, and ventilation. I put a big tarp down on the garage floor first, to make the clean up easier afterward.

If you plan to go to a shelter, take medications, a flashlight and and some extra batteries, bath soap, toilet paper, toothbrush, toothpaste, a few changes of clothes, hand sanitizer, water, a few snack packs, and plastic eating utensils. Charged phone/tablet. If you're taking kids too, take a few things that will keep them entertained.

 

[getaclue]

Add Umbrellas, and Rain Ponchos to that list.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Are you in a home, apartment, or mobile home?

We are in a home

Fill your tank with gas, and any extra gas cans, in case you have to evacuate.
Get extra water. 1 gallon per person, per day for several days.
Get canned foods, and a non-electric can opener, and snack pack foods.
Get batteries, flashlights, candles, etc. OR the solar path lights work well too for lighting inside.
Have a bar-b-q grill, or camp stove. If you're going to cook with wood in the event of a power outage, put some smaller, and medium stuff on a tarp, then enclose it, so it doesn't get wet. Make sure it can't blow away.
Pick up, and secure all yard items that can blow around.
Secure your chicken coop, and other animals.
Track the storm as long as you can on tv, or radio.
Keep your phone/tablet charged.

Thanks!!! We already have all this stuff done.

IF you can, and it's going to be a Cat 4-5, build, or buy cages for your chickens, and put them in your garage, or inside a building during the hurricane. Make sure they have food, water, and ventilation. I put a big tarp down on the garage floor first, to make the clean up easier afterward.

We have crates for the chickens, they are going in the barn.

If you plan to go to a shelter, take medications, a flashlight and and some extra batteries, bath soap, toilet paper, toothbrush, toothpaste, a few changes of clothes, hand sanitizer, water, a few snack packs, and plastic eating utensils. Charged phone/tablet. If you're taking kids too, take a few things that will keep them entertained.

Thanks again!

 

[getaclue]

Do you have a generator? Keep it outside, but run extension cords inside, unless it's a whole house generator. The most important thing to keep going is the refrigerator, and occasionally the water pump.

 

[getaclue]

Sounds like you're as prepared as you can be. Paper plates, plastic cups, and plastic eating utensils. Now relax.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Do you have a generator? Keep it outside, but run extension cords inside, unless it's a whole house generator. The most important thing to keep going is the refrigerator, and occasionally the water pump.

Yes we are all set up