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Hurricanes Iselle and Julio
11 years ago
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Aloha! E komo mai! Hello! Welcome, come in!
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emeralddraconis
emeralddraconis
2.) Throw bottles of water in the freezer to freeze solid and keep everything cold in the event the power goes out.
3.) Have a bug out kit ready to go in case you have to evacuate. A few days clothes/meds/cell phone charger/bottled water in a bag near the door ready to go.
4.) Water that goes halfway up your tire is enough to move/float your car (especially if theres current with it). If you don't know how deep it is, don't drive through it.
2) Hydrate before hand. If you have drinkable tap water, drink it and hydrate yourself properly so that you don't have to worry about dehydrating as quickly as if you normally only drink flavored and carbonated drinks. Also, don't drink carbonated drinks, they dehydrate your body.
3) Do not underestimate how stupid you can be when you panic. It's impossible to control completely, but please try not to make rash decisions based on knee jerk reactions to things that happen.
4) Stay away/get away from shoreline areas. Even if you're high up, the winds and rain can blow the roof off a house, and low lying areas are likely to be flooded by waves of sea water.
5) Get as far inland as possible, if you still can. All sea storms loose power as they head inland, it may not be perfectly safe, but the further inland you can get, the better.
6) Tornadoes and water funnels can form in the outlining areas of the hurricane, keep this in mind.
7) Hurricanes have massive storm eyes. If everything suddenly goes calm, do not go outside, especially at night when there will be no light to see you have made the mistake of leaving your shelter until the wind and rain picks back up and you're grasping at straws trying to scramble back into your shelter.
8) Just Google Hurricanes and what they are possible of doing. Look them up on Wikipedia. Inform yourself and KEEP CALM AS YOU DO SO.
Don't let the downgrade fool you though.. it's still packing a good punch of high winds, heavy rain and high surf, especially for the Big Island.
For the latest updates, see the Central Pacific Hurricane Center's website:
ISELLE:
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/tc_gra.....ormid=EP092014
JULIO:
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/tcpages/JULIO.php