Rotary Hears About Hurricane Preparedness

Sharon Davis, new President of the Windsor Rotary Club, welcomed Billy Smithwick, Windsor Fire Chief, to todays meeting.




The topic of Billy's presentation was Hurricane Preparedeness. The experts in hurricanes have been predicting that the 2007 hurricane season, which is about to start, will be much worse than average. Though they predicted that last year and were wrong, statistics says that at some point, we are going to once again see a bad hurricane or two in our area. Traditionally we here in the Inner and Outer Banks of North Carolina are one of the frequent targets of hurricanes.




The focus of Billy's presentation was concern that our local citizens remember to get ready. It is good practice to have enough food and water to last 72 hours without outside help. It is also good practice to be especially careful to have any medicines that you regularly need for at least that long as well. Running down to the last of your meds during the hurricane season is a risk, since pharmacies may be closed and unable to get medicines themselves after a serious hurricane.





If anyone needs answers to specfic questions, contact your local fire or emergency management office.