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Storm Season is Coming! Be Prepared.

2025 is predicted to be another active storm season with 17 named Storms, 10 Hurricanes and 5 major Hurricanes. To get ready for Storm Season, Sarasota County has just published a helpful booklet, Emergency Preparedness Guide. This guide provides information on the preparations necessary to take care of your family, home, pets, neighborhood and business. Its contents can also be accessed at scgov.net/beprepared.

Here's a summary, with additions of our own, to help unit owners get ready for the upcoming season.

1. Golden Gate Point is in a RED zone, which means if evacuation is called for, our neighborhood will get that order to evacuate first, before any other neighborhood or area of the city.

2. Have a “go bag” ready with copies of insurance documents and other important papers, necessary medications, cash, checkbook and credit cards, a small amount of clothing, and other items you would want to protect and have with you when you leave your home.

3. Photograph everything. Take videos, store photos in your phone – there are a number of ways to have and store “before” pictures just in case you’ll need them to compare with “after” pictures should your home sustain any damage.

4. Use plastic bins instead of cardboard boxes to hold items that would be subject to water damage, especially if you store such containers in your garage or any floor area that might become flooded.

5. If you’re leaving a car behind in your garage or parking space make an arrangement for someone you trust to come and move your car to somewhere safe when it's possible to do so and you’re still away. Snowbirds - give a key to a friend who’s a year-rounder.

6. Think about what high winds might do and protect those areas that could be damaged. Bring your balcony furniture inside, or at least tie it down securely.

7. Think about ways rain gets in during high winds. Roll up towels and line them along the bottom edges of exterior doors, sliding glass doors, even windows - anywhere leaks might happen.

8. Think about the possibility that electrical power could be lost for hours, even days. Wrap your freezer contents in plastic bags that can be readily disposed of if power’s been out too long for freezer contents to still be usable.

9. Learn when and how to turn off gas, water, and electricity.

10. Have sources of light that use batteries - and make sure you have plenty on hand. Do not plan to use candles or oil lamps.

11. Fill your bathtub with water. If you don’t have a tub, fill every bucket and container you can find. Keep drinking water separate and plan for one gallon per person, per day - for at least three days.

12. Have canned food on hand, and a manual can opener.

13. Have a first aid kit.

14. Plan for your pets. Know in advance where you can go when you evacuate that will be willing to accommodate your pet.

15. Keep a full tank of gas in your car. 16. Let your loved ones know where you will be and how you can be reached by phone or other means while you are evacuated.

Hurricane Damage Insurance Coverage and Recommended Actions

1. Long before a storm is on its way, select and retain the vendors you will use for a next storm regarding such things as pumping flood water away, “mucking out” and removing debris, mold avoidance, and other      actions likely to be needed. Put time on your side and establish these arrangements with vendors you might need after a storm and keep the agreements current.

2. Make sure the restoration services firm you plan to use has adequate “bandwidth” to be able to handle your needs along with other customers’ needs.

3. Have a restoration-focused engineer assess your building every year – looking for any vulnerabilities.

4. Have property documentation already prepared.  Have photos of common areas.  Make inventory lists of gym equipment, furniture, artwork, electronics and cabinetry; include all property and valuable items in every area that might be vulnerable to flood or wind damage.  Include brand names, serial numbers, model numbers, dates of purchase, costs.

5. Get drone photos of the roof – to be able to show “before” and “after”.

6. Act immediately to address damage, especially flood-caused damage.  Be able to prove that you acted as soon as possible.  If there has been mold buildup, for example, any delay in documenting, treating and reporting damage, may result in loss of coverage.  Flood policies usually do not cover mold, but if you act fast and document with photos and dates, and show the remedial actions you took, you may be able to collect

7. Do not remove visible water lines before the adjuster comes. Take photos and measurements.

8. Filing of FEMA “Proof of Loss” form must happen within 120 days – not after.

9. Again – document, document, document. Take photographs, have inventory lists – be able to show “before and after” photos.

10. Have adequate storm reserves / contingency funds separate from other reserves/funds.  Avoid special assessments for repairs, if possible.

11. Talk with your insurance broker about your individual HO6 assessment coverage.  You may be able to make a claim.