Hurricane Prep Kit Has 2 New Additions

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/weather/hurricane-checklist-coronavirus-trnd/index.html


Good morning all,

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National Weather Service and CDC recommend adding "cloth face covering" and "hand sanitizer".

I STRONGLY RECOMMEND a complete review of your situation before seeking shelter in a public facility.

"Social distancing" and hygiene in a public shelter is akin to a lost and found department at a brothel.

 

Those items would not be new to my BOB's. I have always had them.

After hearing the horror stories about shelters in the aftermath of Katrina I swore them off completely. Fortunately, I don't have to worry about hurricanes. If I do have to bug out I will find or make my own shelter, thank you very much.

Is it fair to question the expertise that scientists from Colorado State University have with hurricanes? I don't seem to remember many hurricanes hitting Fort Collins, Colorado.

 

Good morning Morgan,

Colorado is somewhat outside of Hurricane Alley.

Our related jokes here are "Citrus groves in Yukon, Canada", "Tropical Institute of Medicine in McMurdo Sound",...

How the public sector's emergency shelters will be handled during this pandemic is a BIG - but hushed up - subject. In the best of hurricane times, anyone could get sheltered at our place - even if they walked through contaminated flood waters. Anyone sick with COVID and stuck at home could still get in a car and enter our shelter. Maybe there will be screening at the entrance but my experience with how personnel and funds are allocated translates to YOYO.

I still harbor thoughts that there are plans to depopulate the tidal flood plains of Hurricane Alley.

 

It would not surprise me. They did that here on a much smaller scale. Our area was a quiet little back water river town. Lots of little weekend country houses along the river and in the area. People didn't care what they looked like 60 + years ago. As the area started to grow and improve they were a horrific eyesore. The flood of '93 did the trick. Wiped most of them out, and what was left would not be insured. All are gone now. I don't think any were permanent residences, so people really weren't hurt.

I would think in your area people live in that flood plain permanently. Much more difficult to enforce eminent domain.