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What To Do After Water Damage From Storms
With all the hurricanes that hit this country this hurricane season, which totaled to six, the damage was so great that many families went home to nothing and the destruction to everything else was also just as terrible. All six of them came out of the Atlantic Ocean and struck our coast line after some of them hit Cuba's coast line. Tennessee had one of the six, which was Fay. It hit the Florida coast line four times with enough rain to cause severe flooding in most of its coast line, and five of these six storms struck in the Gulf Coast.
We had a hurricane hit our coasts for five consecutive months from July to November with an extra one that spun around for seventeen days. Its name was Bertha, and this was the longest living on record in July. There were three major storms that hit Cuba, and they were Gustav, Ike and Paloma. As all of these storms hit us repeatedly, we weren't able to really clean up after the first one before the next one hit. So the damage was so terrible that most families just threw up their hands and realized that they would have to completely rebuild.
This season of 2008 wasn't the biggest one for numbers, but it will go down in the record books as one of the worst damage-wise. The year of the most hurricanes and tropical storms was the year of 2005 where there were a shattering 28. This broke all records. This season's time ended on Sunday, November 30, with the weather forecasters saying that the next year's seasons could have a lot more with them being more damaging and the loss of life being higher.
When the damage is this high and the water is so forceful, there isn't much that a person can do except try to save themselves and their loved ones. The best thing to do in these areas is to have a small emergency bag for each of your family to take with them to where ever you will need to go. In each of them, you will need to pack a change of clothes, toothbrush and a small tube of paste, deodorant, a small flashlight and batteries, a couple of small cans of some kind of food, and some drinking water. It would be a good idea to put all of these items into a waterproof bag so in case you are in the water, your things won't get wet.
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