Have You Taken These Measures for Storm Protection?

There's a good chance that if you live near the east coast, you more than likely have been through a hurricane, if not at least a very severe storm. These can be significant in size and devastating, or mild, however knowing how to protect your home and your family from these storms is extremely important.

You'll want to devise a family plan in case devastation from a hurricane occurs. A good idea is to assign a certain task to each person to prepare your home for the storm. After that you'll want to pick a spot that everybody can meet safely when the bad weather occurs.

You'll also want make up an emergency kit for the time following the storm, in which you'll keep at the spot you chose as the families safety spot. Keep water, matches, any medications that people might need regularly or even aspirin or painkillers, flashlights, and batteries. A radio would be a good idea to keep as well, battery operated of course.

If you have to get out of town, you'll want to have a plan for that as well, knowing your towns escape routes, and how your town approaches evacuation.

Keeping enough food and water for these times is crucial if you live in an area that's constantly hit by hurricanes. The best way to prepare for a storm is to prepare your home, to ensure as little damage is done as possible.

One of the crucial elements of this is to install hurricane windows in your home. Hurricane proof windows are windows that seal tightly so that no air comes in through the windows. When air enters your home during a hurricane, the home then becomes pressurized, which in effect shatters windows in opposing side of the home, or worse blows the roof off the top of the home. Not a good scenario.

So providing this storm protection to your home, can significantly increase the chances that your home survives and you and your family are safe. However, having all of these other protective measures in place is essential as well, since mother nature has no surefire defenses.

A couple other things that you'll want to keep in mind is your gas tank of your car, in which you should never let fall below the halfway mark, and your family pets. Keeping them behind is sometimes inevitable, and there's a good chance that they will survive, but if possible, please take steps to be sure that you can bring them along in the event of an evacuation.