Make sure you have enough canned food to last for at least one week for each member of your family. Don’t forget to have a standard, non-electric can opener. Left over canned good can always be donated to area grocery stores in November when they are collecting to provide Thanksgiving meals to the less fortunate. If you have small children make sure you have everything you need such as powdered milk, baby food and diapers. You may not have refrigeration for days, so plan ahead.

tile like wood Investigate products known as hurricane socks. You will find that they are highly absorbent and made from polypropylene, so they are ideal for the job. Use them during heavy storms and cyclones by putting them up against vulnerable door or window frames and they will absorb any wind driven rain.

Vacuuming and spot cleaning is not enough to get your carpets cleansed thoroughly. Bonnet cleaning, aka absorbent pad cleaning is another viable way to remove all stains off the carpets. Bonnet cleaning and spot cleaning are somewhat the same but bonnet cleaning is performed on a larger scale. In this method, you need to place a huge pad on the carpet and that pad will absorb the dirt in the carpet. This is a widely used method of cleaning carpets but it is not much effective. You do not need to rinse the carpet so this method does not produce best results.

There is something exhausting about the storm and aftermath; we’re feeling compelled to take naps. By evening, we had a false sense of having been through the worst of it. Unbeknownst to us, the eye of the hurricane was 25 miles off shore of Long Island. As it passed the winds suddenly changed completely- now raging from the west, lifting the waves to incredible heights, sculptured foam fists taking out the 42-foot Chimney Rock below us. The gusts barreling on like a freight train, pounding and whistling all night. At times there was a blinding white-out, reminiscent of Chicago’s Big Blizzards.

Something that is beginning to take off in popularity is making a bassinette cover made out of it. This can easily be done and provides a wonderful reminder of your special day and the special little one inside the bassinette.

emergency system response If your boat is anchored in a harbor make sure that the bottom of your boat will hold strong to the anchor. Anchoring your boat allows for it to move around a little more than at the dock. There is less chance of damage because there are no docks or boats to bump into. Be sure to use heavier anchors than usual and using more than one is better.

After just two days in our home in Long island Bahamas, we found ourselves busily preparing for Hurricane Irene, which was heading right up the Bahamas – A Strike! Choices: leave now, go to Nassau, sit it out? For the islanders who live here permanently, leaving is not an option. Hurricanes are a way of life. We decided to stay.

Flat roofs fail when wind pressure increases as it moves over the edge of the flat roof and causes uplift. Flat roofs need to be properly anchored and installed. The roof deck must be securely attached to the trusses and the trusses need to be tied down. Otherwise, wind may lift off entire sections of the home’s flat roof.