Hurricane Preparedness Includes Long Term Projections

Consider what to do if home destroyed by a disaster when there is no storm raging outside our window!

I know there are a lot of other things that need to be thought about besides a hurricane disaster that may never occur. No one wants to think that our homes could be blow away; it is the stuff of nightmares. Yet when the stress and strain of a hurricane disaster is not present, then we need to at least do the preliminary considerations. Everyone needs to think what parameters would be to rebuild or relocate if your home was severely destroyed and there may be long term needs to rebuild or recover. What could constitute the point of ‘enough is enough’ and plans that need to be made to relocate.

By at least thinking about the worse case situation and talking about it with your loved ones AHEAD of time, these conversations and plans would help to reduce the issues should that situation ever occur. By writing down a list of what may be the point where you would consider leaving will be so much help in the midst of a disaster.

Additionally, by planning a worse case scenario, it offers you an opportunity to consider places you might want to relocate permanently. Perhaps on a vacation you could take a small trip to that area and see what the area has to offer you and your loved ones in the way of housing and employment. Check out the school system and medical resources. Look at the entertainment and housing prices.

List all who you could possibly call on for emotional and physical support should a disaster situation ever come about. These tentative considerations will give you a mile high leg up in the recovery process if a devastating disaster should ever occur to you and your family.

Living in a disaster prone region calls for serious reflection as to the ‘unthinkable what-if?’ that could blow your way in a disaster. Get as many emergency preparedness tips for the recovery process as possible. Design an emergency preparedness checklist that includes the worse-case situations. If you have an emergency preparedness plans that include long tern disaster survival and recovery then you will have many resources that in a disaster you may not think of.

It is important to have as many emergency preparedness plans thought out ahead of time as possible when living in a hurricane region.

Besides the long term considerations it is also important to have the short term needs met as well including personalized emergency preparedness kit for each member of your family including your pets. Keep a hurricane disaster guide included with all your emergency preparedness necessities so you will have a resource when a hurricane disrupts so much of life. Consider low cost emergency survival kits. With money tight for most budgets you certainly don’t need to go out and get the fancy high cost items. You can make a very sustainable and comfortable kit with items from the discount dollar stores, thrift shops and yard sales as well as a few dollars each week prudently purchasing things on sale that you and your household will need. In the course of several months you will be very well prepared with all you need in a creative low cost emergency survival kit.

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Terrie

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Feds Plan to Buy 17,000 Homes for Hurricane Buffer

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The U.S. government is weighing a planned buyout of thousands of houses in coastal Mississippi to create an expansive hurricane-protection zone. Local governments, business and private citizens are fretting that the plan, if implemented, would upend the lives of Mississippians already suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The Mississippi Coastal Improvement Program could cost up to $40 billion, including buying as many as 17,000 homes. It also entails building levees and restoring the barrier islands that once kept hurricanes from wreathing Katrina-level havoc. The land could be converted into wetlands or even golf courses, but not repopulated by private homes.Katrinahouse

In addition to the land in Mississippi, there is also talk of extending the program to Louisiana. But the proposal in its present form is already meeting stiff resistance by locals, and one city council has already voted oppose the plan. Residents of the affected areas are fearful that the program would "kill" the coastal economy and once again scatter those brave enough to try and rebuild in the area.

One compromise idea gaining surprisingly little traction would kill two birds with one stone; the government should simply pile up all the overpriced and now abandoned FEMA trailers to build massive hurricane barriers. I'll take the rest of the $40 billion for coming up with it.