Legally Yours: Disaster Preparedness

Charlotte Waters and Kathy Grunewald discuss disaster preparedness during Florida’s Hurricane season, noting recent storms in LSNF's service area and urging planning for both sheltering at home and evacuating with a go bag. They recommend stocking at least a week of food, water, medications, and supplies for cooking without power, plus keeping gas and cash on hand. They stress mapping evacuation destinations, informing others where you’re going, planning for children and pets, and knowing flood and mandatory evacuation zones using emergency management or library help. For legal and recovery readiness, they advise photographing/videoing your home and belongings pre-storm, safeguarding IDs and key documents in waterproof storage, and using 211, shelters, public information officers, radio, and Florida’s special needs registry for vulnerable residents.Support the show