Hurricane/Disaster Preparation
- Your Home
- Landscape & Garden
- Agriculture
- Boaters
- Aquaculture
- Hurricane Forecast Web Sites
- Weather Resources
- Miami Disaster Information
Your Home
- Are You Prepared for Hurricane Season?
- Family Document Kit
- First Aid Kit
- Financial Hurricane Tips
- Emergency Contact Information
Nutrition
Food Safety
- A Consumer's Guide to Food Safety: Severe Storms and Hurricanes
- A Q&A Guide to Water and Food Safety and Quality
Emergency Home Power Generator
Landscape & Backyards
Presentations - Hurricane Preparation Workshop
- Assessing damage and restoring trees after a hurricane
- Assessing hurricane-damaged trees and deciding what to do
- Restoring trees after a hurricane
- Safety comes first
- Trees and hurricanes
- Hurricane-Damaged Palms in the Landscape
- Where to put the money, the tree or the hole?
- Case Study
- Communicating hurricane impacts
- Hurricanes and the urban forest
- Urban design for a wind resistant urban forest
- Choosing suitable trees for urban/suburban sites
- Developing a preventive pruning program: young trees
- Developing a preventive pruning program: mature trees
- Developing an urban forest management plan for hurricane-prone communities
- Selecting trees for wind resistance: photo gallery (highest -medium high)
- Selecting trees for wind resistance: photo gallery (medium-low to lowest)
- Miami-Dade County street tree master plan
- City of Miami tree master plan
Presentaciones del Taller Preparacion contra Huracanes
- Arboles y Huracanes
- Consiga el profesional correcto
- Diseno
- Evaluacion
- Evaluacion de arboles danados durante un huracan
- Evaluacion de los danos
- Evaluacion del dano y restauracion
- Evaluacion del lugar
- Limpieza despues de un huracan
- Plan de accion
- Plantas no muy resistentes
- Plantas resistentes al viento
- Plantas tropicales no muy resistentes
- Plantas tropicales resistentes
- Programa de restauracion
- Poda de arboles adultos
- Poda de arboles jovenes
- Que hemos aprendido
- Restauracion
- Restauracion de arboles despues de un huracan
- Seleccion de arboles de buena calidad
- Siembra
- Volumen del suelo y los arboles
Fact-sheets
- Give Tips on Preparing your Trees for Hurricane Season
- Assessing Damage and Restoring Trees After a Hurricane
- Replacing and Restoring Damaged trees: A Post-Hurricane Time-Out
- Beware of Intrusive Plants: A Timely Post-Hurricane Topic
- Biohazards in the Yard: Playing it Safe
- Using a Chainsaw Safely
- Disaster Manual
- Hurricanes and Landscapes
- Pruning Landscape Trees and Shrubs
- How to Minimize Wind Damage in the South Florida Garden
Agriculture
- Hurricane preparedness for Commercial Tropical Fruit Growers
- Extension Disaster Manual
- Agricultural Safety: Thunderstorms and Lightning
- Agricultural Safety: Thunderstorms and Lightening (In Spanish)
- Portable Generator Safety Tips
Boaters
Aquaculture
Hurricane Forecast Web Sites
Local information about hurricanes affecting southern Florida
- National Weather Service Forecast Office – Miami -South Florida (English)
- National Weather Service Forecast Office – Miami -South Florida (Spanish)
