Hurricane/Disaster Preparation
Your Home
Preparing for Disasters
Nutrition
Food Safety
- Safe Food Handling/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
- 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
Presentations at Hurricane Preparation Workshop 2009
Outlook of the 2009 hurricane season
Assessing damage and restoring trees after a hurricane
Assessing hurricane-damaged trees and deciding what to do
Restoring trees after a hurricane
Where to put the money, the tree or the hole?
Communicating hurricane impacts
Hurricanes and the urban forest
Urban design for a wind resistant urban forest
Choosing suitable trees for urban/suburabn 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 2009
Consiga el profesional correcto
Evaluacion de arboles danados durante un huracan
Evaluacion del dano y restauracion
Limpieza despues de un huracan
Plantas tropicales no muy resistentes
Plantas tropicales resistentes
Restauracion de arboles despues de un huracan
Seleccion de arboles de buena calidad
Volumen del suelo y los arboles
Fact-sheets
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)
