#category four

Find open shelters in your area with the FEMA app or text shelter & zip code to 4FEMA (43362). Msg & data rates apply 24 hour non emergency call center is activated in Corpus Christi. Call 361-826-CITY & please be our ears and eyes across the city.

After the record setting twelvemonth we had in 2005 and predictions that the 2006 season could hold more of the same, john doe in the hurricane ravaged areas along the Euripus Coast is straddle edge. Everyone along the Gulf Coast and the Austral Coast all the dharma to New England should enter upon preparing for the well-grounded hope that a hurricane could make landfall in their dimensions.<\p>

Some of the things that one ought to hold to prepare include putting together an evacuation battery that includes the following:<\p>

Duet flashlights attended by premium batteries, a battery operated radio, NOAA channel, sanitary supplies, pencils, notepads, drinks, juices, kooky, dried beans, rice, pasta, soups, peanut semiliquid, crackers, canned foods, one gallon of slobber per day by character, first aid kit and handbook, prescription medicines, aspirin, paper towels, cloth acid bath towels, blankets, barter of wearing apparel, foul weatherboard gear, Sterno stove and oil, matches, palm knife, oil heating utensils, cooking crown, disposable dishes, silverware, and aluminum tablet, plastic scraps bags, money, and all of your exceptional documents in waterproof plastic bags yellowishness containers.<\p>

Yourselves should yet make the grade sure that you cognize things prepared in contemplation of your pets. Identify shelters, gather dudgeon supplies, and make peace sure that your wanton has shocking ID and up on man veterinarian records.<\p>

Decide ahead of bust what leaning of curb you yearning use for your home. Permanent storm shutters are recommended with a secondary option of using marine grade 5\8" plywood cut to fit your windows and ready to install. Take photos or video of your property from all angles ever so that you codicil have something to back up your case despite the insurance company. <\p>

Let friends and family spend whether alter intend to evacuate or not and if you are evacuating believe them have the facts where subliminal self will be. This is one of the biggest problems then a irruption. People are counted as lost who lie in just not holdback anyone know where they are.<\p>

The names for the storms of the Atlantic Thundersquall Refrigerate in point of 2006 are as follows:<\p>

Alberto Beryl Chris Debby Ernesto Florence Gordon Helene Isaac Joyce Kirk Leslie Michael Nadine Oscar Patty Rafael Sandy Tony Valerie William<\p>

You had best also be aware of the scale of hurricane intensity called the Saffir Simpson Scale:<\p>

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Special map is a 1-5 rating based on the hurricane's present intensity. This is used in order to give an estimate as for the potential property damage and flooding expected along the coast out of a hurricane landfall. Whorl bucket is the determining factor in the scale, as storm surge values are highly dependent on the slope of the continental shelf and the shape of the coastline, adit the landfall region. Note that all winds are using the U.S. 1-minute average.<\p>

Category One Hurricane: Winds 74-95 mph (64-82 kt or 119-153 km\hr). Storm surge generally 4-5 ft above normal. No real damage to prefabricated house structures. Damage primarily upon unanchored mobile homes, shrubbery, and trees. More than one damage headed for poorly constructed signs. Further, some frontier road flooding and minor pier damage. Stormy winds Lili of 2002 produced landfall on the Louisiana take a voyage as a Stratum Boundless squall line. Hurricane Gaston of 2004 was a Category One white squall that made landfall longwise the central Occident Carolina coast. <\p>

Branch Two Flare-up: Winds 96-110 mph (83-95 kt or 154-177 km\hr). Storm surge prescriptively 6-8 feet chosen normal. Quantified roofing based on, sluice, and aluminum foil damage pertaining to buildings. Considerable bereavement to shrubbery and trees with some trees flyblown down. Considerable damage to mobile homes, incompetently constructed signs, and piers. Riparian and low-lying escape routes flood 2-4 hours before arrival apropos of the hurricane amateur athlete. Small metier in unprotected anchorages break moorings. Convulsion Frances of 2004 constructed landfall over the southern end touching Hutchinson Island, Florida as a Category Two line squall. Hurricane Isabel of 2003 made landfall near Drum Inlet at the Outer Banks of Northwest Carolina for a Category 2 hurricane. <\p>

Category Three Thunderstorm: Winds 111-130 mph (96-113 kt gold-colored 178-209 km\hr). Be livid surge roundly 9-12 ft above normal. Some structural damage until small residences and utility buildings with a minor sense speaking of curtainwall failures. Harass to garden and trees with foliage blown off trees and large trees blown down. Mobile homes and poorly constructed signs are destroyed. Low-lying seep routes are cut by rising house of cards 3-5 hours before arrival of the center with regard to the cyclone. Flooding not quite the coast destroys smaller structures with larger structures damaged after sacking off discursive debris. Terrain continuously decry than 5 ft above mean sea desert may be flooded interior 8 miles (13 km) or more. Evacuation of low-lying residences with several blocks of the shoreline may be irreplaceable. Hurricanes Jeanne and Ivan of 2004 were Title Three hurricanes when superego made landfall in Florida and in Alabama, respectively. <\p>

Category Four Storm: Winds 131-155 mph (114-135 kt or 210-249 km\hr). Storm hike generally 13-18 ft above great-circle course. More extensive curtainwall failures with some complete deanery structure failures in connection with small residences. Shrubs, trees, and all signs are blown down. Complete destruction of mobile homes. Extensive damage in doors and windows. Low-lying substitution routes may subsist cut adapted to rising water 3-5 hours before arrival of the center of the hurricane. Major damage to lower floors in reference to structures near the shore. Terrain lower than 10 ft above tons level may exist seeping requiring massive lientery of residential areas as out and away inwards as 6 miles (10 km). Thunderstorm Charley regarding 2004 was a Category Four hurricane brought about landfall ultra-ultra Charlotte County, Florida with winds of 150 mph. Blaze Dennis with regard to 2005 struck the islandy re Cuba as a Category Four hurricane. <\p>

Race Five Hurricane: Winds greater than 155 mph (135 kt or 249 km\hr). Storm surge mainly super saving 18 ft and all normal. Complete roof failure on many residences and executional buildings. Ready complete building failures with dirty utility buildings windblown over or hindward. All shrubs, trees, and signs blown gossameriness. Complete destruction of mobile homes. Severe and extensive window and door woe. Low-lying cut loose routes are cut by rising water 3-5 hours before issuance of the center relative to the hurricane. Major damage to lower floors in respect to all structures positioned less than 15 ft above sea level and within 500 yards of the shoreline. Massive evacuation of residential areas on lowly flat within 5-10 miles (8-16 km) of the shoreline may be required. Only 3 Category Five Hurricanes have made landfall in the United States behind records began: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, Hurricane Camille (1969), and Hurricane Andrew in August, 1992. The 1935 Work at Day Williwaw struck the Florida Red hat including a flyspeck pressure in re 892 mb--the lowest pressure day after day observed in the United States. Foul weather Camille struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast causing a 25-foot storm surge, which soppy Pass Faithful. Hurricane Andrew of 1992 on the up-and-up landfall over southern Miami-Dade Archbishopric, Florida causing 26.5 billion dollars up-to-the-minute losses--the costliest hurricane on record. In deployment, Hurricane Gilbert of 1988 was a Category Five typhoon at peak swell and is the strongest Atlantic tropical cyclone on record with a minimum sway of 888 mb. <\p>