Protecting Yourself During a Hurricane There is a ton of information about what you should do to prepare yourself and your family for a hurricane. Finding the right homeowners insurance and family health insurance will help protect you and your family from the damaging effects of hurricanes, as will bracing the home for the onslaught of the storm. But, if you should find yourself trapped in your home during a hurricane you will want to know how to react to the dangers of a hurricane, not solely how to prepare for one. Reacting well in the face of a natural disaster may help you save your life and the life of those that you are with.
Be Prepared Because of this, finding the right family health insurance is important, but so is taking the time to talk with local disaster relief officials about any specific instructions you and your family should follow that pertain to your local area’s protocol. Generally speaking, you will want to make sure that you do some of the following things, although any other precaution and actions that you can take during the hurricane itself to help protect you and your family can also be enacted. One of the first things that you should do is stay as informed as you possibly can. A family can use a weather radio or tune into their local weather station on television to listen to broadcasts and alerts for their area. You and your family should understand what is going on outside so you do not try to leave your home when it is not safe to leave or incase evacuations to your area have been announced. Another thing that a family can do to protect themselves in the middle of a storm is to secure their home the best that they can from potential damages. A homeowner can close all of their storm shutters and try to secure objects outside or bring them indoors to further protect possessions and assets.
Secure Your Home A homeowner can likewise turn off the utilities as soon as they are instructed to do so or when the storm is imminent. An important tip when shutting off the power is to turn the refrigerator to its coldest setting before switching off power and do not open the doors to the refrigerator after until the power is back on.
Close all of your doors and windows and try to secure or brace external doors. Keeping your blinds and curtains closed can help shield the interior from glass should windows break during the storm. Still, however, finding a safe room in your house for your family that does not have any windows or glass doors in it is highly recommended to further protect from the danger of broken glass during the storm. After finding a safe room to weather the storm, a family can lie on the floor or under something sturdy to stay safe. Should you find yourself stuck in your home during a hurricane, do all that you can to stay safe. Then, once you get the go ahead to leave your home you can be sure that you have done all you can to keep yourself and those that you are with as safe as possible. Photo Credit: bestfor / richard, NASA Goddard Space Flight