Hurricane Preparation Fact Sheets
Your Home
- Think Nutrition During the Hurricane Season (195KB PDF)
- Food Safety for Consumers Returning Home from a Hurricane and/or Flood
- What Consumers Need to Know about Food and Water Safety during Hurricane Power Outages and Flood
Landscape & Backyards
- Give Tips on Preparing your Trees for Hurricane Season (34 kB, pdf)
- 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 (623KB PDF)
- Disaster Manual (927KB PDF)
- Storm Preparation and Dealing with the Aftermath
- Hurricanes and Landscapes
- Pruning Landscape Trees and Shrubs
- Caring for the Hurricane-Damaged Landscape Plants
- Evaluating and Treating Landscape Trees Following a Hurricane
- How to Minimize Wind Damage in the South Florida Garden
Agriculture
- Hurricane preparedness for Commercial Tropical Fruit Growers (51.2 kB, pdf)
- Extension Disaster Manual
Boaters
- Hurricane Manual (927KB PDF)
Aquaculture
- Aquaculture Natural Disaster Preparation and Resources (84KB PDF)
- Hurricanes (200KB PDF)
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)
Fact Sheets
- Agricultural Safety: Thunderstorms and Lightning (41KB PDF)
- Agricultural Safety: Thunderstorms and Lightening (In Spanish) (162KB PDF)
- Portable Generator Safety Tips (442KB PDF)
