Hurricane/Disaster Preparation
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Your Home
- Are You Prepared for Hurricane Season?
- Family Document Kit
- First Aid Kit
- Financial Hurricane Tips
- Family Emergency Contact Information
Hurricane Preparedness Video (Spanish) from Carl Hersh on Vimeo.
Preparation, planning, and supplies needed for hurridane season, and what to do if a hurricane is coming.
Nutrition
Food Safety
- Food Facts from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Preparing and Storing an Emergency Safe Drinking Water Supply
Emergency Home Power Generator
Landscape & Backyards
Presentations - Hurricane Preparation Workshop
- Urban Forestry Hurricane Recovery The site includes a vast collection of topics related to Hurricane Recovery. The main goal of the site is to foster a healthy urban forest that is more wind-resistant. The program is aimed at citizens and communities who seek to rebuild and set better management practices so that future storms are less devastating.
- Assessing damage and restoring trees after a hurricane This publication will guide you on how to be safe around fallen trees after a hurricane, when and how to restore damaged trees, and ways to prevent damage next time. The publication is available in English and Spanish
- Preparation for and Recovery from Hurricanes and Wind Storms for Tropical Fruit Trees in the South Florida Home Landscape
- Assessing Hurricane-damaged Trees and Deciding What to do
- Restoring Trees After a Hurricane
- Safety Comes First when Cleaning up After a Hurricane!
- Trees and hurricanes
- Hurricane-Damaged Palms in the Landscape
- Where to put the money, the tree or the hole?
- Hurricane Pruning a Case Study by Bob Brennan
- Communicating hurricane impacts
- Hurricanes and the urban forest
- Urban design for a wind resistant urban forest
- Choosing suitable trees for urban/suburban 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 Tropical and Subtropical Species for Wind Resistance Tree selection for wind resistance is a key component for tree survival during hurricane conditions. The site contains many fact-sheets and PowerPoints presentations about tree selection in English and Spanish
- Selecting trees for wind resistance: photo gallery (highest -medium high)
- Selecting trees for wind resistance: photo gallery (medium-low to lowest)
- Preventing Problem The site contains a comprehensive list of strategies in order to minimize the tree damage after storm or hurricanes. The strategies could be for New Planting, Existing Planting or Special Situations or Conditions.
- Miami-Dade County street tree master plan
- City of Miami Master Plan
Presentaciones del Taller Preparacion contra Huracanes
- Arboles y Huracanes
- Consiga el profesional correcto
- Diseño
- Evaluacion
- Evaluacion de arboles danados durante un huracan
- Evaluacion de los daños
- Evaluacion del daño y restauracion
- Evaluacion del lugar
- Limpieza despues de un huracan
- Plan de accion
- Plantas no muy resistentes
- Plantas resistentes al viento
- Plantas tropicales no muy resistentes
- Plantas tropicales resistentes
- Poda de arboles adultos
- Poda de arboles jovenes
- Que hemos aprendido
- Restauracion
- Restauracion de arboles despues de un huracan
- Seleccion de arboles de buena calidad
- Siembra
- Volumen del suelo y los arboles
Fact-sheets
- Give Tips on Preparing your Trees for Hurricane Season
- Biohazards in the Yard: Playing it Safe
- Using a Chainsaw Safely
- Hurricanes and Landscapes
- Pruning Landscape Trees and Shrubs
- How to Minimize Wind Damage in the South Florida Garden
Agriculture
- Hurricane preparedness for Commercial Tropical Fruit Growers
- Preparing for and Recovering from Hurricane and Tropical Storm Damage for Tropical Fruit Groves
- UF/IFAS Extension Disaster Manual
- Portable Generator Safety Tips
Boaters
Aquaculture
Hurricane Forecast & Weather Resources
- National Hurricane Center
- Weather Sites for Cold Weather Events
- University of Florida Weather
- Miami-Dade County Office of Emergency Management
- American Red Cross of Greater Miami & The Keys - Disaster preparation
CONTACT
Teresa Olczyk, M.S. County Extension Director twol@ufl.edu
Hours Monday - Friday 8:00AM - 5:00PM
Physical Addresses
Main Extension Office
18710 SW 288 Street
Homestead, FL 33030
Phone (305) 248-3311
Fax (305) 246-2932
Other Offices
Florida Sea Grant
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Key Biscayne, FL 33149
Phone: (305) 421-4017 (Call for appointment)
Family Nutrition Program (FNP)
14707 South Dixie Highway, Suite 402
Palmetto Bay, FL 33176
Phone: (305) 234-2159 Fax: (305) 234-2157 (Call for appointment)
EFNEP and FNP
14400 NW 77 Court, Suite 106
Miami Lakes, FL 33016
Phone: (786) 391-0539 (Call for appointment)
4-H Youth Development Program
401 E 65 Street
Hialeah, FL 33013
Phone: (305) 769-4050
Fax: (305) 769-4052