Dr. Kim Wood

So when you live in a place that has a risk of hurricane impacts and I say hurricane, but, you know, in general, tropical cyclone impacts.

The things to be thinking about are who do you pay attention to?

Identify a couple trusted sources.

Yeah, you can check the National Hurricane Center page on a daily basis for updates.

That's great.

But it's nice when someone translates that, especially the cone of uncertainty, into something that is relevant to where you live, especially from a timing perspective.

The watches and warnings start coming up 48 hours out.

And so we want people to have taken action before those winds get to them.

So that's why things will often be listed as a warning, even though the center of the storm is still pretty far away, is because the center is the worst part.

You want to be prepared before the worst part gets to you.

Duly noted.

So take pictures of everything in your house.

Have your insurance documents ready, if possible, because it depends on people's ability to prepare ahead of time.

Have your prescription medications stocked.

Think about ways to partner up with other people who may live near you if maybe you could carpool.

know if you're in a flood risk zone.

I'm listing all these things off and that's a lot of responsibility placed right on the person who's like, I don't even know what a hurricane is.

Kim said, So many folks who live in these areas are already barely getting by.

And so to assume that they have enough resources to put gas in their car, to have a car, to, you know, you've got folks who may use wheelchairs, you have folks with pets, you have folks with medical conditions, children, elderly relatives, there's all these different factors that folks need to consider for their own personal risk and risk management.

And so