Every one wants his or her home safe and sound. It is true that the hurricanes can destroy every thing comes in path, but some safety measures can help you in making your home supplies, assets and other valuable safe when it strikes. Followings are precautions to acquire the possible safety:

First of all place heavier items on ground or if possible to keep them in shelves.

It is batter to keep mirrors, pictures, wall hangings, and others away from the beds and sofas. The glass may be causing the injury.

Get unplug all the home appliances. This may prevent the electrical surges.

Check out the entryways, walkways and sides of the home. This may help you to easily evacuate and rush outside or inside the home when storm can compromise the rest of the house.

Keep in moving your emergency supplies and other necessary material into room that doesn't have any window. Window can break any time, so the water and wind can easily be damaged the supplies.

Roll up the refrigerator thermostat to its coldest setting, if not initiated by officials to turn off utilities.

Make sure either the doors and windows could close or still opened.

Fills the bathtub and other large container for storage purpose. This will help you for washing clothes, curtains, and floor of the home.

Cover up the windows and doors with plywood. This will reduce the risk of breakage and flying glass.

Backyard safety

Garden is a place where you have lot of activities of children as well as whole family. Loose items like barbeque grill, seesaws, steel chairs, coffee table etc. Followings the instructions given below:

Keep the barbeque grill away from the home or keep enclose indoor.

Remove the trash cans, garbage tubs, lawn chairs, pool equipment away from the home or its frontage. Keep the unnecessary items into the basement or garage. Basement and garage are providing extra space for storage. (see basement and garage storage ideas on our Home Remodeling webstie).

Garage doors can be reinforced with retrofit kits. Check with your local building supplies dealer. Two cars garage door is bulky and can cause a lot of damage, it is better to check FEMA publications or to check your door suppliers.

Keep the lawn junks into the indoor of the home and be sure that they placed on some safest place or room without window.

Check out the branches of the trees either them properly trimmed or not. If you suspected the same then must go and trim the extended branches of the trees. This will reduce the over crashing. Poor branches and wreckage can cause damage, if they’re airborne.

Check out the rain gutters, underground sewage, main holes, sidings and fences either they properly be fixed or not.

Keep moving up with storm shutters and to secure windows with plywood.

Move up the boat away from the home and remove it from the frontage of the home.

You can also move the bulky items into the backyard or away from the home.

Pet's safety

Local animal shelters will let you know what to do with your pets if you are mandatory to abandon. Pets could be alone after hurricane. Be sure that your pets are with you. Don’t forget them when you're going to evacuate.

Do consult the local animal shelters or Humane Society to get the proper information to secure your pets. The Humane Society of USA recommends pets owners to make understand how to evacuate their animals.

Prepare a disaster kit for your pets. Be sure that you have updated pet’s health certificate, vaccination certificates, date of birth certificates, and tags. The disaster kit is also available at Humane Society office of USA.

Most of the emergency shelters do not provide the pets shelters as they are not confirmed. So it is better to leave the pets out-of-land or area and to evacuate them at your friend's house or concerned veterinarian. Veterinarian has the complete record of the pet animal even its vaccination, health care, and other relevant information.

Be sure that they’re properly fed with food, medicines, and the important thing is to keep some extra food and medicine, only if the pet is with you.