Hurricane prep, need advice

[MROO]

"Safety Third"

If, dear reader, you don't know of what I speak? Google "Mike Rowe" + "Safety Third". You won't be disappointed.

LOVE Mike Rowe! I heard him speak at the 100 Year Boy Scout Jamboree. It was weird, but cool. He's not the same quiet kid I went to school with!

 

[Marigolds]

@3KillerBs has the right of it. Take down anything you can that can act as a sail - tarps, loose pieces of plastic or metal roofing, etc. Stake down everything you can. Earth augurs work great - wire stakes do not.

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If you can't get these, you can wrap rope or steel cable around a cinder block, throw the block in a hole, and fill it back up with dirt - basically you are using the weight of the ground as a tie down.

If you are fortunate enough to have a pool (and given your water table, I know that's unlikely), give it a shock treatment, then throw all your loose outdoor furniture in it. Being submerged protects it from wind, and the shock treatment ensures (assuming you don't have major flooding and surface sewage) you at least have clean water for bathing or to use to flush toilets if you lose city water. Your birds can drink it too.

Bottled water for yourself, canned goods that don't require hydration (that is Chunky soup, NOT Campbell's Condensed), try to avoid rice, pasta, other things that require preparation in a pot of boiling water, and fill your freezer with water frozen in ziplocs - not only will the additional thermal mass keep things from defrosting a bit longer, but as they do, you have more drinkable water.

make sure you have a 2 week supply of any medication you take routinely, all your important papers should be gathered up and packed in the back of the car, and a "go bag". If you live on the computer, you should have your master packed in the car as well, work from a laptop or secondary for the next couple days. That way you won't lose important log ins, links, passwords, etc. Chances are, you won't need any of those things - but better to have them and not need them than to try and assemble it in the dark, while its raining, and a storm is bearing down.

I'm in the Panhandle of FL, have been thru a LOT of hurricanes when I lived in Daytona, later Tampa, and Fred missed us by a few dozen miles. We are watching Ida closely. I'm not so generous as to hope the storm track steers our way - we are living in an RV right now, and out eventual house is a bunch styrofoam forms at the bottom of the hill, awaiting concrete. We can't take a Cat 2 or 3 directly, and I've no way to move the RV.

Living here on the Chesapeake Bay, we’ve survived many hurricanes. Your advice is excellent!
God bless us all during this hurricane season.

 

[sdm111]

Also to whoever you can get the zello app and talk like 2 way radios on your phone. Distance doesn't matter as long as you have interest. You can also request via a search like cajun navy or the like just incase. You can also do groups for fellow neighbors

 

[MROO]

Living here on the Chesapeake Bay, we’ve survived many hurricanes. Your advice is excellent!
God bless us all during this hurricane season.

Chesapeake Bay? Me, too! Where?!

 

[Littledarlingfarm]

Hey y'all!

We've got a Cat 2 or 3 hurricane making landfall Sunday and aiming straight for Baton Rouge. Welcome, Ida I've got an Omlet Eglu with 13ft run and Autodoor for my 3 standard hens and a separate coop/run combo for my 2 POL d'Uccle pullets. Link to their coop page. I'm going to bring all of the chickens inside. I bought big dog crates for just this purpose What should I do to make sure the coops are shored up as well as they can be during the storm? Hurricane conditions are possible here.

TIA!

Good on you for bringing your feather babies inside. I agree with one of the other commenters stake down what you can and have your emergency supplies, food & water, money and house documents etc. at hand. We’ve had a wild fire near us this past week so we’ve been keeping a couple bins and backpacks ready to go at our back door with all that(and a dog kennel for our chickens as well!). Sending you well wishes and stay safe!

 

[suburbanfarmermi]

Sounds like Ida is making a splash. Praying for you and everyone in her path. Hope you will update us when you can.

 

[Matejka]

Best I can say is to stake them down firmly with storm ties and take in any tarps, shade cloths, canvas covers, etc.

They will be covered. IN WATER!
My prayers are with you. Stay safe. I would stake em down, clean em out,remove anything that floats.

 

[topochico225]

Y'all think the eggs in my incubator will be ok if I wrap a Mylar blanket (you know, the silver emergency kind) around the incubator then a thick weighted blanket around that? I have a spot for oxygen open. Waiting on my power to go out

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

Y'all think the eggs in my incubator will be ok if I wrap a Mylar blanket (you know, the silver emergency kind) around the incubator then a thick weighted blanket around that? I have a spot for oxygen open. Waiting on my power to go out

That probably depends on how long the power stays off.

 

[topochico225]

That probably depends on how long the power stays off.

Could be multiple days, could be a couple hours. They're on lockdown starting today