Hurricane/Disaster Preparation

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• 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

• Think Nutrition During the Hurricane Season

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

• Portable Generator Safety Tips

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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

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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

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Boaters

• Hurricane Manual for Marine Interest

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Aquaculture

• Aquaculture Natural Disaster Preparation and Resources
• Hurricanes

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Hurricane Forecast & Weather Resources

• National Hurricane Center 
• National Weather Service Forecast Office – Miami -South Florida (English)
• National Weather Service Forecast Office – Miami -South Florida (Spanish) 
• 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

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