Information from the National Hurricane Center [DATA HERE] indicates currently slow-moving Tropical Storm Idalia will likely speed up quickly tomorrow and form a Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday. The current cone of uncertainty puts the Northern and Western portion of Florida at greatest risk.
At 100 PM CDT (1800 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Idalia was located near latitude 20.0 North, longitude 85.8 West. Idalia is moving toward the north near 2 mph (4 km/h), and it is likely to meander near the Yucatan Channel through tonight. A faster motion toward the north is expected on Monday, bringing the system over the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Maximum sustained winds remain near 40 mph (65 km/h) with higher gusts. Strengthening is forecast, and Idalia is expected to become a hurricane by Tuesday.
Idalia will come fast, most likely making landfall at a category 2 hurricane. Those in the cone of uncertainty should pay attention, and people in the Tampa and St Pete region who have really lucked out in the past 30 years, should pay very close attention.
I hope you will understand why my proactive tips, advice and planning have modified since our experience with the September 2022 Hurricane, Ian. {Go Deep} Thankfully Idalia is not expected to be anything similar to Ian. However, for those in the Tampa/St Pete area, do not be complacent. This is a large metropolitan area with a similar demographic to the impact zone of Ian.
In my last set of proactive suggestions, {GO DEEP HERE} I focused first and foremost on something few discuss, mental capability. Due to what I witnessed in Hurricane Ian with the people of the area, I am always going to put this into the analysis now to provide consideration that few understand. I saw Ian literally break strong people down and create a PTSD demographic I have never experienced before.
What follows below are things to consider if you are prepping for a hurricane impact and/or deciding whether to stay in your home or evacuate. Standard hurricane preparations should always be followed. Protect your family, secure your property and belongings, and prepare for the aftermath.
What you do before the hurricane hits is going to determine where you are in the recovery phase.
Additionally, and this should be emphasized and discussed within your family, if you cannot be self-sufficient in the aftermath – for any reason, then you should evacuate. Self-sufficiency in this context requires being able to cope for up to several weeks:
(1) potentially without power; (2) potentially without potable running water (3) potentially without internet service; (4) potentially without communication outside the region; and (5) with limited municipal and private sector assistance. If you decide you cannot deal with these outcomes, you should evacuate.
Additionally, as a family or individual, you should also honestly evaluate:
(1) your physical abilities; (2) your emotional and psychological ability to withstand extreme pressures; and (3) your comfort in losing daily routines, familiar schedules and often overlooked things you might take for granted.
Post hurricane recovery is fraught with stress, frustration and unforeseeable challenges. {GO DEEP}
For those in the cone of uncertainty, remember, planning and proactive measures taken now can significantly reduce stress in the days ahead. Plan when to make the best decision on any evacuation (if needed). For now, consider Tuesday night the decision timeframe. As a general rule: take cover from wind – but evacuate away from water.
DAY ONE (Today)
- Determine Your Risk
- Make a Written Plan
- Develop and Evacuation Plan
- Inventory hurricane/storm supplies.
DAY TWO (Monday)
- Get Storm Update
- Assemble and Purchase Hurricane Supplies
- Contact Insurance Company – Updates
- Secure Important Papers.
- Strengthen and Secure Your Home
- Make Evacuation Decision for your Family.
DAY THREE (Tuesday)
- Get Storm Update
- Re-Evaluate your Supplies based on storm update.
- Finish last minute preparation.
- Assist Your Neighbors
- If Needed – Evacuate Your Family
Communication is important. Update your contact list. Stay in touch with family and friends, let them know your plans. Select a single point of contact for communication from you that all others can then contact for updates if needed. Today/tomorrow are good days to organize your important papers, insurance forms, personal papers and place them in one ‘ready-to-go’ location.
Evaluate your personal hurricane and storm supplies; update and replace anything you might have used. Assess, modify and/or update any possible evacuation plans based on your location, and/or any changes to your family status.
Check your shutters and window coverings; test your generator; re-organize and familiarize yourself with all of your supplies and hardware. Check batteries in portable tools; locate tools you might need; walk your property to consider what you may need to do based on the storms path. All decisions are yours. You are in control.
Consider travel plans based on roads and traffic density. Being proactive now helps to keep any future stress level low. You are in control. If you have pets, additional plans may be needed.
One possible proactive measure is to make a list of hotels further inland that you would consider evacuating to. Make that list today and follow updates of the storms’ progress.
Depending on information tomorrow you might call in advance and make a reservation; you can always cancel if not needed. It is better to have a secondary evacuation place established in advance. Being proactive reduces stress. Even if you wait until much later to cancel, it is better to pay a cancellation fee (usually one night charge) than to not have a plan on where to go. Trust me, it’s worth it.
Protect your family. Make the list of possibilities today, make the booking decision in the next 24 hrs.
Look over the National Hurricane Center resources for planning assistance.
If you do not handle stress well, leave.
If you cannot be self-sufficient in the aftermath, leave.
If you choose to stay pay super close attention to the exact path of the storm. A few miles make a massive difference when you are dealing with the possibility of encountering the eyewall of a hurricane.
This is a fury of nature, a battle where the odds are against you, that you may or may not be aware you are contemplating when you are choosing to stay or evacuate. It’s not the hurricane per se’, it’s that much smaller killer buzzsaw – the eyewall- that you are rolling the dice, never to see.
When it comes to the eyewall, the truest measure of the “cone of uncertainty“, the difference between scared out of your mind (victim) and a fight to avoid death (survivor), is literally a matter of a few miles. And there ain’t no changing your mind once it starts.
♦ Hardening your home is a matter of careful thought and physical work. However, every opening into your structure must be protected, leaving yourself with one small exit opportunity just in case. Hopefully you have a bolted door with no glass windows you can use as an emergency exit. If not, select a small window and leave only enough room uncovered for you to get out in case of emergency or structural collapse.
Beyond the ordinary supplies like drinking water, batteries, flashlights, battery or hand-crank radio, generators, gasoline, etc. Evaluate the scale of what you have against the likelihood of weeks without power or water. A few pro tips below:
♦ Put three 30-gallon trash cans in the shower and fill them with water before the storm. This will give you 90 gallons of water for cooking and personal hygiene. You will also need water to manually flush your toilets. Bottled water is great for drinking, hydrating and toothbrushing, but you will need much more potable water if the municipal supply is compromised or broken.
♦ A standard 6,500-to-8,500-watt generator will run for approximately 8 hours on five gallons of gasoline. Do not run it all the time. Turn it on, chill the fridge, make coffee, use the microwave or charge stuff, then turn it off. Do this in 4-hour shifts and the fridge will be ok and your gasoline will last longer. Gasoline is a scarce and rare commodity in the aftermath of a hurricane. Gas stations don’t work without power. Check the oil in the generator every few days. Also, have a can of quick start or butane available in case the generator starts acting up.
♦ Extension cords. If you are purchasing them buy at least one 50 to 100′ extension cord with a triple ponytail. This way you can use one cord into a central location to charge up your electronic devices. Establish a central recharging station for phones, pads, laptops, and rechargeable stuff.
♦ Purchase a box of “contractor garbage bags” and just keep them in the garage. These are large, thick, industrial trash bags that fit 40-gallon drums. They can be used for trash, or even cut open for tarps in the aftermath of a storm. These thick mil contractor bags have multiple uses following a hurricane.
♦ Do all of your laundry before the hurricane hits. You will likely not have the ability again for a few weeks.
♦ Cook a week’s worth of meals in advance of the hurricane. Store in fridge so you can microwave for a meal. Eating a constant diet of sandwiches gets old after the first week. Dinty Moore canned beef stew and or Chef-boy-ardee raviolis can make a nice break…. anything, except another sandwich.
♦ Have bleach for use in disinfecting stuff before and after a hurricane. Also have antibiotics and antiseptics for use. Hygiene and not getting simple infections after a hurricane is critical and often forgotten. Again, this is where the extra potable water becomes important. Simple cuts and scrapes become big deals when clean potable water is not regularly available. Keep your scrapes and abrasions clean and use antiseptic creams immediately.
♦ Do not forget sunscreen and things to relieve muscle aches and pains. Hurricane recovery involves physical effort. You will be sore and/or exposed to the elements. Remember, it’s all about self-sufficiency because the normal services are not available. A well-equipped first aid kit is a must have.
♦ Buy a small camping stove. Nothing big or expensive, just something you can cook on outside in case of emergency. It will be a luxury when you are 2+ weeks without power and all the stores and restaurants are closed for miles.
♦ Those small flashlights that you can strap around your head that take a few AAA batteries? Yup, GOLD. Those types of handsfree flashlights are lifesavers inside and outside when you need to see your way around. Nighttime is especially dark without electricity in the entire town. Doing stuff like filling a generator with gasoline in the middle of the night is much easier with one of those head strap flashlights. Strongly advise getting a few, they’re inexpensive too.
♦ Cash. You will need it. Without power anything you may need to purchase will require cash, especially gasoline. Additionally, anyone you hire to help or support your immediate efforts will need to be paid. Cash is critical. How much, depends on your individual situation, but your cash burn rate will likely go into the thousands in the first few days. Also keep in mind, you may or may not be able to work and without internet access even getting funds into place could be challenging.
♦ Hardware. A box of self-tapping sheet metal screws (short and long) is important, along with a box or two of various wood screws or Tyvex screws. A battery drill or screw gun is another necessity. Check all of this stuff during hurricane prep.
Watching the waves come rolling in from the 5th floor at Lido Beach sounds like fun, knowing the garage is on ground level and if water hits that area it will flow through like a knife in warm butter–what’s to worry?
Then again, who wants to dive off the fifth floor if the concrete has deteriorated these past 50+ years? So, it’s off to Marina Jacks for some drinks and fun…when I see the waves washing away the loungers by the pool, if time permits!
Except there are 8 Tesla, 3 Volts, and an E-Mercedes in the parking garage. Their stickers say “dry clean” only.
Let alone once submerged into salt water a couple days after they will short circuit and catch fire.
Sarasota, Manatee, areas have certainly been very fortunate these last 25 years. Rumer has it area has been blessed with Indian spirits. Was on Anna Maria for 23 years. Sadly moved to Naples 3 years ago.
Remember Charlie making that sudden turn into port charlotte ?. Have a drink for me at marina jacks and enjoy your afternoon.
Pray and help others.
Yes, water is an irresistible force.
Minimize flushing toilets if possible. Depending on robustness of infrastructure lift stations may not be operating, causing backups.
I ride with the Tocobaga.
But always prepared, regardless.
Good luck Southeast Treepers!
If any Treepers need an out of area phone contact, let me know. Can certainly relay messages
May the Lord bless you and keep you all.
Prayers from rural Minnesota
Good advice for general major storm prep wherever one might live. I’ve bookmarked this with the thought of blizzards in the mountain west.
Going to show this to wife. We haven’t had a hurricane (or even a major blizzard) here in Eastern Massachusetts for some years, but they do happen. Excellent advice!
L.E. Where you at? I’m on the South Shore. We haven’t had a winter in a couple of years here, but feel like we are way over due.
Another suggestion is get gallon jugs of water into the freezer now, and can up any meat to make space. The gallon jugs will stay frozen for 4 days if you don’t open the freezer.
Vegetable gardeners with tomatoes on canes etc Take the canes out and lay your plants flat, you can tie them back up after the wind passes. If you have young fruit trees, get galvanized conduit pipe and hammer at least two feet into the ground. Tear old sheets, or pillowcases to tie them to the pipes. That will provide enough width and softness for the trunk. Regular tree ties will shear through the trunk under strong winds.
Don’t forget gas for generators
These storms rotate counter clock wise and so the onshore winds driving storm surge comes from the SE quadrant of the storm. If this model is correct this storm could bring the worst storm surge to hit Tampa Bay since 1921. A whole lot of development has occurred in the natural flood plains where the surge will flood and this could look make the low areas of Tampa look like Ft. Myers did last year if the model projection holds true.
(3) The American Storm on X: “The I’s have it for Florida. Irma, Ian now Idalia which will likely have a much bigger surge into Tampa bay than the other 2 did given the wind blew offshore. Any shift east in the path ups the ante. As it is now, a formidable surge, not seen in many years there with that wind https://t.co/9fd2LpDRW1” / X (twitter.com)
Further. Joe Bastardi and Levi Cowan are both indicating that atmospheric conditions are set up so this storm will not weaken very quickly when it gets over land and once it punches out to the Atlantic off the coast of the Carolinas it could regain some strength and meander and ruin some Labor Day plans along the beaches of the Carolinas and Virgina.
Don’t be surprised if this storm rapidly intensifies as it approaches shore. Could be a CAT III at landfall.
Bastardi is the best pro meteorologist and Mike’s Weather Page is the best amateur. Good luck Florida Treepers from NC.
While those cheap headlamps are okay, I recommend the heavy duty ones–the ones that run on two rechargeable batteries (I believe, 18650 batteries). Not only do these headlamps have long run times (like 10 hours on low), they are also super bright. You may not need such a bright light for everything you do, but, trust me, when you DO need it, a cheap, piddly one just won’t cut it! (By the way, my husband’s headlamp puts the PD’s to shame!)
I also recommend investing in a good supply of glow sticks, especially if you have kids who are afraid of the dark. You can also buy up solar lights–put them outside during the day (obviously AFTER the storm has passed), bring them in at night.
Prayers up and stay safe!
I would rather change batteries instead of needing to rely on a source to recharge it.
It’s not just one of the other.
Exactly! I wasn’t suggesting that you ONLY use the high-powered ones. Rather, I suggest you get BOTH because they serve different purposes.
And get extra batteries . . . for ALL of them!
Put LED bulbs in them and will a day or more continuous.
Wouldn’t you Floridians be way ahead of the curve if you just forgot about using your refrigerators and freezers? Refrigerators and freezers consume an ungodly amount of power and ultimately the gasoline needed to run your generator. Why not eat your refrigerator empty right after the storm and save yourself a lot of work and money trying to keep the frig cold? Between freeze dried and canned goods and whatever other food can be safely stored at room temperatures, I’d think you could eat well. Having a white gas or propane stove would seem more like an absolute necessity. If I was using a generator I’d rather use it to run fans at night to be able to sleep and charge electronic devices.
I lived in Florida, mostly Lake County, between 1977 and 1990. I also lived through hurricanes on Long Island.
We all have our priorities and I realize many Treepers spend way more on steak , lobster and top shelf booze in a week than I spend on basic food items for a month.
You use solar backup batteries and high wattage DC-AC inverters on the low consumption loads (like fans and lights) until you fire up the generators for the larger loads. (when it stops raining and blowing) When the generators are up you start using high wattage loads like water heaters and blow dryers. You run a generator transfer panel next to your load center to connect both the inverter output and the generator output. Then, you cycle through circuits in your house where the power is needed.
A bank of 4-6 LiFePO 100Ah batteries in parallel will keep you going until you can get the gas generators up. (It’s cloudy during and after a hurricane) One 100Ah LiFePO will run a normal side by side refrigerator/freezer for about 18 hours, but, you don’t run it continuously. You just spike it with the cool down and then rotate the power loads to different areas of the house.
It’s a given you use propane to cook and heat water for baths close to the time of impact when the grid is down.
Good info!
LFO battery generators are pretty darn nice. Ecoflow or similar. You can get a package with solar panels to recharge.
A bit pricy to get into a rig, but appear to be darn handy as a backup to your ginnies.
By the way, as others have indicated, run your generators 20 minutes on and forty off to keep the fridge cold and the freezer frozen. Extends your fuel supply.
If you can, have a generator for the apliances and another for smaller loads
Stack the freezer full with plastic water jugs, as others have said. Take a jug out as-needed for drinking water. Only fill about 4/5 full to keep from splitting jugs.
Dual fuel inverter generators can run on gas or propane. Propane tanks last for years. Gas needs Stabil fuel stabilizor to extend gas storage to 12 month (premium gas only).
Sundance is 100% right about evacuation. Don’t wait too long. Stay safe and may God protect you and your family.
🤣🤣🤣 Well I need power for water and septic. Gens work best with load. Running a Gen for 2hrs every 4-5 hours keeps everything liveable. Also have solar that can run the frig/freezer or at night a portable AC. Been there once with no power for 2 months. Won’t happen again – and no I won’t eat bugs.
I am in New Olreans and run my fridge 12 hours a day in a 2500 Champion generator and it will use about 1/2 gallon of fuel.
I than run a small 6500 BTU AC in my bedroom for the other 12 on the other 1/2 gallon of fuel.
10 gallons of fuel will get me about 9 days with that system. I keep 4 of the 20L NATO Jerry cans full of non ethanol fuel and rotate them for new fuel on June 1st of every year.
While it seems like people are wasting fuel. A bottle of cold water is just about priceless during the aftermath of a hurricane…$100.00 in fuel is a small price IMO.
Thank you, Sundance, for this information. We moved to Florida (20 miles north of Tampa) 7 years ago. We have found these tips very helpful. Good points, Sundance, about the psychological effects of these storms.
To our friends on the west coast stay safe, street flooding will be bad.
Tampa Bay fills up and nowhere for the water to go, lived there many years before moving to east coast. Still have many friends there.
We will be there to help.
Very strange place for a tropical storm to take shape.
Not really.
The only thing a bit unusual was the original disturbance started on the Pacific side and instead of going west, went ENE across central America into the Caribbean where it has hung around and continued to organize. What also may be unusual is that the majority of such storms that have gone up into that bight that forms the coastline between the peninsula and panhandle weaken before landfall while this one quite probably will strengthen or at least maintain its strength.
Texas has a strong high over it, so it had to go either east or west.
You think the Gulf is a strange place for a storm to develop?
On target for Tallahassee and DeSantis’ political career.
Da Meatball Sub will be underwater.
All the looters are getting ready to go do their thing.
You know what to do.
They ain’t gonna accoplish much in my area, not unless they plan to come in on airboats.
Those looters wouldn’t know the first thing about driving an airboat. Can you imagine their fear when they look out & see all those red eyes staring back at them…millions of eyes… LoL
Red eyes..
Along with plans to keep your usual belongings dry, keep your powder dry and at the ready.
He’s been good about shooting looters
I read your hurricane prep the other day. FEMA should cut and paste what you wrote word for word and distribute.
Here is sundance doing FEMA’s job for them. For shame, FEMA and the elected officials in the affected areas od FL.
The voice of experience and compassion. Thanks.
What a wonderful summary.
I will forward this excellent briefing on to relative and friends.
Treepers need to save and print this.
Best wishes Sundance and crew.
Living in the NOLA area, I have experienced hurricanes many times. Almost all of your advice is very good. The only caveat I would give is for storing water in garbage cans. Great for sanitary purposes, but I would avoid cooking with that water if possible. Garbage cans are not food grade plastic, and it is made with a lot of chemicals that you really don’t want to ingest.
You can line the cans with garbage bags sized to fit…
Are those garbage bags “food grade plastic”?
🤣😂🤣😂
Filing the bathtub or washer with water for flushing works well.
Yes! Water that can be used for *many* things, not just flushing!
The extra large bulk food containers with Gamma lids would work well.
It will be fine for a few days.
Boil up some eggs.
Great when the electricity goes out.
Excellent advice sunnydaze! Hard boiled eggs are a great source of protein, vitamins, and minerals. TPTB say hard boiled eggs need to be consumed in a week. Not true. They last a good 2 weeks in a working refrig. Trust me, been there, done that.
I’ve actually had them last quite a bit longer than that, rita. (!)
And -as far as I know- they’re perfectly fine. I’m not dead yet, anyway!
Maybe it depends on how hard you boil ’em, or maybe it’s just that TPTB want us to throw away perfectly good eggs.
FYI: That’s just in a working fridge.
For years when a storm was coming everybody and their brother bought cans of tuna.
I asked somebody one time if they ate it out of the can…no I mix it with mayo was the answer.
So how do you keep your mayo I asked…crickets. Now with the bottled mayo that sits out not an issue.
The cans of tuna in the past were always in the food drive boxes after the storm. I’ll bet people have tuna that has had multiple anniversaries on the same shelf in the pantry.
Store uncooked eggs at room temperature, for MONTHS, by coating the shell with oil, you can search for details on how.
The shells are porous, and breathe; thats how the bacteria gets in, and the oil “seals” the shell.
A few drops of food grade hydrogen peroxide (NOT the stuff in the brown bottle, for wounds!) and you can store milk at room temperature, for weeks.
My daughter lives in Germany and they keep hard boiled eggs on their counter, cabinet shelves.
wow. Did not know that about milk.
I have some NIDO dry milk. It’s the only brand I’ve tried that is “okay”, (ie. doesn’t make me want to wretch).
Stay safe everyone! We are very close to Charlotte NC and will probably only see wind and rain.
Lines steady at gas stations in in St Petersburg.
Having lived in New Orleans and area for 15 years (Katrina was the last straw and we left).
We evacuated from most that were headed our way. Its a pain and expensive due to all the motels/hotels within 500 miles jacking up prices to maximum allowed. And being end of month again, it is very difficult for those living paycheck to paycheck.
If you have young children, I would not stay unless you have activities that don’t require power or internet!
Then no A/C in august, unless you have a means to provide power, no thanks!
Good point, Graham, about it being the end of the month, a rough time for those living paycheck to paycheck. Let us pray that they find shelter if they need it and can ride this out.
Our Bov, (Bug Out Vehicle) is a small, RV I customised myself.
Its a home on wheels, so if we have to leave due to a derailment, flood, fire etc. we can live in it, pretty much anywhere, “rent free”.
Sage advice for all of us regardless of where we live. We should all have ample supplies on hand all the time. We get warnings about storms, not from our enemies.
We take these Hurricane Preparedness Tips seriously. Thankfully, there is time to prepare for a Hurricane, usually several days. We moved to Florida from western Kansas and had only minutes to prepare for a tornado.
We moved to Wyoming from western Kansas and had only seconds to prepare for an avalanche.
We lived in Wyoming for 6 years. Lots of cold and snow. Tornadoes too.
I had no idea that tornadoes occurred in Wyoming.
They are rare and very brief.
GEFS “tracks”….a hybrid “spaghetti” model, showing probably tracks and with barometric pressure predictions. (the lower the barometric pressure is generally indicative of a more intense storm/cyclone/hurricane).
in this spaghetti model, notice the lowest barometric pressure is expected to very close to shoreline. This means intensification is likely to happen abruptly just before landfall. Which is not unusual, but I point this out because many people wait until the very last minute to decide when to bug out. And with hundreds of thousands of people who might be watching a “low power” category 1 or 2 hurricane just offshore, things can get really dicey really quickly in just a matter of a few hours in that last 50-100 nautical miles…so stay tuned. and be ready to leave and have all your bug out items ready and packed in your vehicle, just in case. Don’t wait, because there are going to be A LOT OF PEOPLE who are going to panic if this storm intensifies rapidly.
at this moment nearly all models I am looking at are showing landfall as early as Wednesday am. However, IF this storm intensifies rapidly and becomes a full powered hurricane, it could pick up velocity and arrive earlier in the middle of the night Tuesday! OR similarly, it might stall and not make landfall until late evening Wednesday. There is a lot of variability in the models for that last 100 nautical miles before landfall…stuff happens that models cannot predict well in those last 6-8 hours! Models are not 100 percent accurate, so make sure you tune in to your local broadcasts and be prepared and have your bug out things packed and ready. Today is a good day before work on Monday to prep.
God Bless America
God Bless America.
Everyone should be prepared for all of the above, regardless of where you live and what your climate is.
Stop laughing–Become an Apex prepper.
Water.
Food.
Power.
Comms (not internet or phone).
Trained real well with weapons (you’re not).
The people that want us dead are over the edge right now.
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The only good part right now is that we’re dry as a bone inland in SWFL.
hope it misses Ft Myers and the barrier islands – they have had enough
Awesome advice once again, Sundance. Over the past few years it appears to me that the European modeling is more accurate (HAARP) influence unknown). Here are some of the spaghetti models, including the European models:
https://baynews9.com/fl/tampa/weather/tropical#Spaghetti_Model_3-WX
i envy them
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Still dealing with Ian/Nicole- no workers available. All at the Big $$ coasts. Too many have died. Replacements don’t have a clue or skill and speak funny languages.
FJB better brush up on his tales of personal tragedy.
Yep, he suffered a blow from hurricane Hunter.
All jokes aside, prayers for Florida!
Yes. Prayers for Florida.
Thanks Sundance! SE Ga here, always watching CTH for important stuff, including hurricane preparedness. Very good info that we take for granted. Also, remember if you are a mail-order drug delivery recipient, plan for no package delivery for the duration. I learned this the last time myself. Gotta make sure your prescription supplies are up-to-date.
In my little town, we have a hometown, concrete block grocery store that is open during disasters, so the people around here know if they can get to the grocery store, they can survive temporary crises. But, remember the cash, because the electronics won’t be working.
Also, during weather situations, our local am radio station is the always go-to for up-to-date info on road closures and information like shelter locations, etc. We really learned during Floyd many years ago that the am radio station knows everything. We also have a lot of northbound traffic and coastal Georgia traffic coming through, and they are a vital resource.
The current regime is trying to talk car manufacturers into omitting AM radio in the very near future. There has been some vocal opposition, acknowledging that AM radios have weather and other emergency advisories that need to be kept in place. The elite regime would like to prevent WTP from getting the necessary information.
Fill your Freezer with as many water bottles as you can.
If elec. goes out, put ’em in your fridge to help hold temp. a bit longer.
When they defrost, you’ve got more potable water to drink.
FAUX news is thrilled. More headlines to write to show how tough DeSantis is.
There will be endless interviews and headlines to have you believe he is Christ in human form.
Trump 2024
Did you mean “anti-Christ”?
If he had any charisma, he’d be a contender.
Fill empty lidded containers (milk jugs, etc.) w/ water and put ’em behind/around the toilets.
If the water goes out, you can use ’em for flushing. I just keep ’em there all year.
Bleach bottles are even better, cause its thicker, stronger plastic, and the little bleach left in it is enough to disinfect the water.
Speaking of bleach, it’s great for a quick disinfectant for emergency water sources. But you don’t want to drink water with bleach in it. I recently discovered that ascorbic acid powder will completely neutralize bleach.
https://sciencing.com/bleach-neutralizers-6658259.html
1/4 tsp ascorbic acid (vitamin C) per gallon.
Hmmmm….let me guess. Another geo-engineered storm?
Why now? What will they do to trump this time?
Or is it to prop up DeRino as a leader and his excellent response to natural disaster? Lol.
It’s hurricane season in FL.
Would be weirder if there were NO ‘canes coming.
The peak of hurricane season is nearing in September. We are probably just getting started.
Maybe it’ll hit near Tampa but every time they predict that, it goes further south and heads across Central Florida. Don’t want anyone to get hit but talking 20 plus years in Central Florida.
Hurricane Ian last year caused devastating flooding in Central Florida.
I’ve never seen a better list of preps and advice! I suspect, refined by experiences, thru the years. Great work Sundance!
We are in the Spring Hill area so will be watching closely. 10 miles inland so not too concerned but……
I keep one of these in my bathroom for emergency, clean water storage.
https://waterbob.com/
☝️tried to upload a photo to show you all what this is. Unable to. Maybe someone else knows how?
It’s a really great product (tub bladder) that keeps the water clean for several days.
alexapure makes a GREAT water purifier, been using it a few months now.
Simple design, all stainless with carbon filters.
“Let’s rock!!”– Vasquez-“Aliens”
How did Palm Springs fare? I love it there, unfortunately so do the sodomites.
I can’t remember what storm it was about 5 years ago, it was in the Big Ben area. It took forever to get here and the power was out long before it started and ended. Yuck, but the best thing I did was to cook the pork chops, hamburger, steaks and chicken before hand and froze it in single baggies. I uses a hurricane emergency kit from Walmart to warm them up with stereo cans and a little grill that came with it. We uses a small skillet for the food a teakettle to boil water for coffee. It worked really well until we could get generator up and running after the storm. A french press for the coffee. Be safe and don’t turn portable generator until after the storm. God Bless
Be safe everyone.🙏🏻 Listen to Sundance, he gives great advice on how to prepare. He knows the destruction that hurricanes cause better than anyone.
Thank you Sundance.
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Thank you Sundance. I’m 50 mins north of Tampa ❤️I🙏
If the Crystal River power plant goes down, much of Florida will be dark for a while. This could get interesting in a hurry.
Stay safe Sundance
SC here…the Atlantic is so hot that any hurricane scares me. Thank you Sundance.
If only the Weather channels, weather advisories and the local “governments” were as honest, concise and clear as Sundance regarding preparations and plans and understanding the potential situation these residents face, there would be less mayhem and worse (fatalities) for the folks in north west FL.
Thank you, Sundance.
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Daily updates, going live as it makes landfall. I’ll post newer updates and the live link when they happen.