Hurricane season.

How do you get ready for it?
I have never seen a hurricane, tornado, flush flood. How do you protect your truck? Or let it outside and get a new one?

 

I'm usually stuck at the hospital so mine is in a parking garage.

 

Your truck is a disposable item that insurance will cover. The main thing is protect yourself and your family. For a hurricane just make sure you are not parked near any trees, and you could put some blankets or soft material around the glass.
For a tornado there is not much you can do, if it gets hit its gone.
Flash flood you can sandbag around it or put it up on some jack stands, but you never know how high the water will get.

 

By evacuating. We left Houston during Harvey and took both trucks with us.

 

Cement block house, which is tied to the foundation with rebar. The block walls are then filled with concrete in multiple areas (all openings etc), and all the roof trusses are strapped to the block in multiple locations. There are 3-4x as many roof trusses and bracing as normal, along with hurricane glass (laminated glass that cannot be punctured) in all windows and doors (if not, you have accordian shitters, panels that go up, etc.). All outdoor items come into the garage and house, along with the vehicles. Make sure to stock up ahead of hurricane season on non perishable food, water, drinks, etc. Generator is ready on standby, and plenty of gasoline in the garage as well.

Then you sit tight until it hits, and ride it out. Typically we'll get maybe 12-18" of rain in 24 hours, and wind gusts (its not a constant wind). There is typically no lightning or thunder, but sometimes an errant tornado can pop up. The rain and wind come in bands and depending how close you are to the eye, intensify. Have been through several cat 2-3 storms in Florida and its manageable if you prepare. If you dont prepare, or live in an old wood frame house, its a whole different story...

 

Gilbert Arizona doesnt get hurricanes.

 

1. Buy twice as much beer as you think you’ll need.

2. Insurance

3. Yes

 

We always had hurricane parties. Usually just massive amount of liquor, a Honda 2000 genny, and MREs.

 

Don't be a hero, evacuate.

If you have to be in the area, park in a high rise garage.

 

Yeah I’m glad I moved from Southeast Florida on the coast to middle of nowhere NH. LOVE IT

 

All I thought of was James Franco

 

The last good (er bad) hurricane we had, the power was out for couple of weeks. About 3-4 days after the hurricane, my then brand new generator shit the bed. Threw the damn rod. It was miserable until the power came back on a week later. We ate good for a few days though, cooking all the food from the freezer before it went bad.
Now I have two generators.

 

My wife and I are from New Mexico, where it rarely rains; I wasn't about to try to deal with it. Our subdivision on the west side of Houston got 45" of rain from Harvey.