It’s Official

Hurricane Season Is Upon Us

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A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued today by the National Weather Service. Effected Counties are along the central Florida Gulf Coast.

http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=TBW&product=HLS

If you live in the affected areas I recommend that you become familiar with the above information.

Local News reports are already reporting sea-walls being crested by the Gulf waters, and the storm is not even here yet. I anticipate flooding in the lower lying coastal areas once the storm makes land fall Monday (6/06/16) afternoon or evening.

http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2016/6/2/tropical_update_two_.html

Local County Emergency Operations Centers (EOC’s) and the FL State EOC are already coming online in anticipation of the damage the storm may produce.

If you are one of the less than 40% of the people who have already prepared an Emergency Action Plan, now is the time to break it out, review it, and insure that all stakeholders are on-line with the plan. At a best case scenario this will give you an opportunity to “Test” your plan.

If you are one of the more than 60% of the adult individuals who have been remiss in preparing for events that will most certainly happen at some point in your life. Now is a good time to rethink your lack of action.

A good place for information to start the creation of an Emergency Action Plan is the FEMA “Are you Ready” guide: https://www.ready.gov/are-you-ready-guide