Just let me start with a disclaimer. If your authorities tell you to retire, don’t play with your life or your loved ones. Do what you ask as quickly as possible. Even if the evacuation order has not been issued, but you fear for your safety, do not hesitate to leave your home in a safe shelter. Again, although the title says gentle winds, it is by no means a gentle storm. All are serious and can cause structural damage, injury and even death. However, three years ago I stayed through the Turbo Category. I have learned from experience what it is necessary to have in the event of an election in stay at home storm or tropical storm. We didn’t have everything we needed, but now I know what was left of our list of goods.
Every year at the time of the storm, I told my husband to buy things that needed to be hit by the winds. He always made fun of me for being paranoid. Although it was three years ago, who would have said that the supplies of the wind needed to be bought back. He said he felt it in his bones as the winds hit us that year. A hurricane hadn’t hit North Florida in over 30 years, but I went with the flow anyway. We bought everything we thought we needed, and what we thought we could prepare for.
The next week in the South Atlantic, French Hurricanes formed. It was one of the largest hurricanes in the region before it made landfall, affecting the entire state in one way or another. We live 70 miles from the coast, but our small community still experiences 70 mile per hour winds. Pentis clocked before 90
1) Flashlights. Not with a lamp but with a hand crank just like a regular casino. You don’t know how quickly you use the batteries to keep the regular lamp bright. Hand crank flashlights are the best flashlights as they can be cranked for about thirty minutes before you need to crank them again. Arm and leg fights can cost, so this will be your first choice.
2) Lots of pregnant women. Take a look to see how much your radios, portable TVs, lamps, and any other equipment you have are using. We bought some, but not enough. The last day we ran to have our lights turned on. None of the local stores are open, so I’m not sure what we’re going to do without batteries.
3) Crank the radio hand. Again, batteries are so expensive. After we experienced this weather, I bought a hand crank radio. It lasts about twenty minutes before cranking is needed.
4) A small portable television that operates on a battery charge. We already had a portable black and white TV, the kind you use in a camper. Thank goodness we had that, because without the TV we would have been doomed to watch the big storm. We have one of the best astrologers in the North Florida area, and I trust his reports on TV. He stayed on TV with live coverage until the worst of the storm stopped.
5) Hand wipes or baby wipes. We kept the water on throughout the storm, but if we lost water service, we had a helping hand.
6) Games, CD players, cards, books, need crosswords, anything to keep your family entertained. . Fortunately, my two older sons were teenagers, and my daughter was 11 at the time, and it was easy to please. Remember we were lucky, we had a portable TV. It was a little tight watching TV around the dining room table table, but at least we had TV. If we were sent for a refund, these things would not be sent to the list, but now they are bet, so that in the three days we were available we were basically stuck in the house.
I don’t want to hurt anyone. They are horrible. but no one in our city was in any danger. In a strange way the weather brought us closer. We had no computers or modern technology. We sat around the portable TV listening to the weather, which was pretty much all there was locally – no conveniences like cables to remember. We played games and when the first lights came out, you’d think we were in for the biggest hit ever. They all ran to the suitcase with the food. I had told them that the lights were only to be procured as they went out. Did they ever take me literally? Something about Sardis and a crash in the dark with a lamp.
Again, you must follow the instructions of your authorities, and leave your house if it is issued. You never think you can do it on your own and casually.
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