YOUR EMERGENCY WATER PLAN STAY HEALTHY STAY HYDRATED

Store Water

For drinking and cooking, save enough water for 7-10 days.

Fill bathtub and containers with water for non-drinking purposes.

STAY INFORMED

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HEED PRECAUTIONARY/MANDATORY BOIL WATER NOTICES

If a notice is issued, disinfect your water by either boiling for 1 minute, OR adding 1/8 tsp of bleach, OR using purification tablets (purchase at outdoor retailer).

EVACUATING? HERE’S WHAT TO DO. Shut off the home’s water valve (typically found on the exterior wall of the home). Some water heaters may also need to be shut off. Check with the manufacturer.

Customers with a low pressure sewer system pump on their property are asked to shut off the breaker to their grinder pump (located in the dedicated electric box outside of the home).

FOLLOWING THESE STEPS WILL ENSURE YOU HAVE A SUPPLEMENTAL WATER SUPPLY, MINIMIZE DAMAGES AND EXPEDITE RECOVERY.

Storm Names

By Keys Weekly staff

Forecasters worldwide use short, distinctive names for tropical storms and hurricanes. The National Hurricane Center says the practice of naming storms is especially important when exchanging detailed weather information among hundreds of widely scattered weather stations, coastal bases and ships at sea.

Since the early 1950s, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center. The lists are used in rotation and recycled every six years (i.e., the 2023 list will be used again in 2029).

A list changes only if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name for a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. Several storm names have been retired since the lists were created.

Hurricane Ian was a high-end Category 4 storm that skirted the Florida Keys. It inflicted some of its wrath on the Dry Tortugas, before making landfall south of Punta Gorda on Sept. 28, 2022 with 150-mph winds — just shy of a category 5 storm. Ian was responsible for more than 150 direct and indirect deaths and more than $112 billion in damage. It’s the costliest hurricane in Florida’s history and third costliest in the U.S.

In March, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Hurricane Committee retired Ian from the rotating lists of Atlantic tropical cyclone names due to the death and destruction caused not only in southwestern Florida, but also in Cuba.

The naming system for hurricanes has changed over time, according to Jon Rizzo, warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Key West. Traditionally, in a system overseen by the World Meteorological Organization, lists of male and female names were used in a six-year rotation for Atlantic hurricanes. An active storm season can exhaust all names on the list. In the past, Greek letters were used to name storms after the list was exhausted. But that’s no longer the case.

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By Keys Weekly staff