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If you must evacuate
By Times staff
© St. Petersburg Times
published May 26, 2002
- Stay tuned to your local radio and television station for emergency broadcasts. If ordered to evacuate, you must do so immediately.
- Take your disaster supplies kit with you.
- Take important papers with you, including your driver's license, special medical information, insurance policies (agent's name and number) and property inventories.
- Let friends and relatives know where you are going. Make sure your neighbors have a safe ride.
- Turn off electricity, water and gas.
- Lock windows and doors.
Friends or relatives
If you've made plans to stay with a relative or friend, make sure your destination is not within a zone that has been ordered to evacuate. Take enough supplies for your family.
Leaving coastal areas
If you're leaving the area, remember to take the supplies you will need. Move inland away from the storm surge and inland flooding, but it is not recommended that residents try to leave the region. Roads will be heavily congested and you run the risk of being caught on the highway without a safe refuge.
Hotel or motel
If you plan to go to a hotel or motel, you will need to check for availability and make your reservation well in advance. You will be competing with thousands of other families in the Tampa Bay area and adjacent areas, in addition to the visitors already there. Again, make sure your destination is not in an evacuation zone.
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