Hurricane Preparedness Blog

When hurricanes knock out power, we quickly become a cash society.

Most ATMs and credit cards will be useless, leaving you with only cash to pay for needed supplies.

At OneStorm, we’ve gone back and forth many times about whether or not to add “Cash” to our preparedness checklists. Currently, we do not. We believe that it is unreasonable to ask someone to hide an envelope of cash in June - and then there’s the question of “how much.”

Rather, we recommend that you withdraw cash from an ATM as soon as your home is in the 5-day cone of a storm. Hold onto it until the storm has passed and you’re confident that you won’t need it.

With Tropical Storm Erin threatening Texas right now, and an uncertain future for Tropical Storm Dean, it may be time for many of you to make that ATM run. Remember, even before the power goes out, a panicked community will empty those machines out fast!

Here we go folks. Your wakeup call to prepare is ringing and you’re left with three options: get your hurricane plan done now, get ready to wait in line for supplies, or get caught by surprise.

Hurricane Flossie - now a Category 4 storm, will make her approach to Hawaii’s Big Island Tuesday afternoon.

Tropical Depression Four - started as a tropical wave that exited the coast of Africa on Friday and is now moving westward toward the Lesser Antilles. One model intensifies TD4 into a Category 2 Hurricane this Saturday. Keep an eye on this.

Invest 91L - this system is predicted to make landfall on Wednesday afternoon near Corpus Christi, TX (map) as a 50 mph tropical storm.

One way or another, a “Tropical Storm Dean” or “Hurricane Dean” is looking likely before next weekend. Whether or not they’re forecast to affect you directly, I think you’d agree that now is the time to get your hurricane plan in order - not this weekend when bottled water may begin vanishing from the shelves.

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