When should coastal dwellers prepare for the storm season, and what should be in their hurricane survival kit?
Coastal residents should prepare for the storm season when they decide where to live, when they decide what kind of house to live in, when they make all of life’s important decisions. (Elderly and disabled people people unable to handle boarding up and evacuating ought not live in evacuation zones. The able-bodied at least should keep ‘to do’ lists up to date, make sure their homes are as resistant as practical, pack hurricane kits every June. Details will vary from household to household. Which hurricane survivor story moved you the most? The stories of the hurricane survivors brought us to tears. After Hurricane Andrew in 1992, families with young children and elderly retirees alike were thrown into homelessness. In 1935, in the Florida Keys, a little boy lost both of his parents. In 1893, a 17-year-old saved his 4-year-old brother’s life but saw his mother fall into raging waters on St. Helena Island in South Carolina. It’s awful to think of people losing most of their belongings in
