{"id":28958,"date":"2025-07-06T15:19:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T19:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=28958"},"modified":"2025-07-06T15:19:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T19:19:48","slug":"hurricane-safety-checklist-how-to-protect-yourself-before-during-and-after-a-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2025\/07\/hurricane-safety-checklist-how-to-protect-yourself-before-during-and-after-a-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane safety checklist: how to protect yourself before, during and after a storm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even though we have not been hit by a hurricane yet this year, now is a great time to prepare just in case you get hit by one later this year. Here is a good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/hurricane-safety-checklist-how-to-protect-yourself-before-during-and-after-a-storm-212708850.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&amp;segment_id=DY_VTO_CORE_NT&amp;ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20250626-0--A&amp;bt_user_id=0VQzMGCl8kjF4TksnRaQf%2BlgOQ1fCl3vr3j6OHNWjevNPSpor4RY0YaWQAMtIwKV&amp;bt_ts=1750935649902\">summary article<\/a> on what you need to do before, during, and after the storm from <em>Yahoo News<\/em>. You can find state and commodity-specific guides for agriculture at <a href=\"https:\/\/climatehubs.stg.platform.usda.gov\/hubs\/southeast\/topic\/hurricane-preparation-and-recovery-southeast-us\">https:\/\/climatehubs.stg.platform.usda.gov\/hubs\/southeast\/topic\/hurricane-preparation-and-recovery-southeast-us<\/a>. There are many other sources available through Extension and by using a search engine online. Here is a page from the Georgia Extension program: <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\/topic-areas\/timely-topics\/emergencies\/weather.html\">https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\/topic-areas\/timely-topics\/emergencies\/weather.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/hurricane-michael-survivors-ajc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"866\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/hurricane-michael-survivors-ajc.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/hurricane-michael-survivors-ajc.jpg 866w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/hurricane-michael-survivors-ajc-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/hurricane-michael-survivors-ajc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/hurricane-michael-survivors-ajc-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hurricane Michael survivors in Colquitt, Ga. John Edward Wells with wife Marianne Wells and their granddaughter Maddie. (Joshua Sharpe\/joshua.sharpe@ajc.com) Photo: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though we have not been hit by a hurricane yet this year, now is a great time to prepare just in case you get hit by one later this year. Here is a good summary article on what you need to do before, during, and after the storm from Yahoo News. You can find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":16056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28959,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28958\/revisions\/28959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}