Hurricane

PHOTO/AMERICA HUMANE It’s not just people we have to plan to protect during an emergency such as a hurricane — we have to keep our precious and defenseless pets safe and with us as well.

PHOTO/AMERICA HUMANE It’s not just people we have to plan to protect during an emergency such as a hurricane — we have to keep our precious and defenseless pets safe and with us as well.

Prepare your pets for hurricane season

News Staff
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Courtesy of American Humane It’s not just people we have to plan to protect during an emergency such as a hurricane — we have to keep our precious and defenseless pets safe and with us as well.
PHOTO/Courtesy UF/IFAS Photography Despite high inflation, shoppers can take advantage of in-store specials and use coupons to stock their storm supply pantry.

PHOTO/Courtesy UF/IFAS Photography Despite high inflation, shoppers can take advantage of in-store specials and use coupons to stock their storm supply pantry.

Storm prep with this inflation?

News Staff
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Submitted by UF-IFAS Extension Services Hurricanes don’t care about inflation, and they get their fuel from the warm ocean waters, not a gas pump. Rising costs have brought on rising concerns, and that includes spending wisely to prepare for hurricane season.
PHOTO/UF-IFAS EXTENSION SERVICES This tree, with the single dominant trunk and well spaced scaffold branches, is equipped to survive the next storm.

PHOTO/UF-IFAS EXTENSION SERVICES This tree, with the single dominant trunk and well spaced scaffold branches, is equipped to survive the next storm.

Getting your trees ready for storm season

News Staff
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Trees are one of a homeowner’s most important assets. They provide beauty to our neighborhoods enhancing property values, shade to cool our homes reducing our energy bills and plentiful oxygen for us to breathe.
PHOTO/OSCEOLA EOC Osceola County’s Emergency Management division held a hurricane expo May 28 to get residents in the mindset of preparing for the upcoming storm season.

PHOTO/OSCEOLA EOC Osceola County’s Emergency Management division held a hurricane expo May 28 to get residents in the mindset of preparing for the upcoming storm season.

Are you Ready Osceola?

News Staff
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Knowing the tremendous impact that just one hurricane making its way through Osceola County can have on the community — just ask those who lived here in 2004 when three hurricanes rumbled through town when the area hadn’t seen one since 1960 — the county’s employees and partners are preparing to...
PHOTO/COLORADO STATE UNIV. Hurricane Dorian roars through the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm on Sept. 1, 2019. The Colorado State University tropical analysis research team predicts 20 named storms will form in the Atlantic basin during the 2022 hurricane season.

PHOTO/COLORADO STATE UNIV. Hurricane Dorian roars through the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm on Sept. 1, 2019. The Colorado State University tropical analysis research team predicts 20 named storms will form in the Atlantic basin during the 2022 hurricane season.

Storm researchers predict another “very active hurricane season” for ‘22

News Staff
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Following the lead of the last two extremely active hurricane seasons, leading hurricane researchers say 2022 will be more of the same.
Toho Water Authority

Toho Water Authority

Approaching Hurricane Season

News Staff
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Florida’s hurricane season is from June 1 to November 30 and is a period where hurricanes are more likely to form in the Atlantic Ocean. As June begins, we must remind ourselves how to prepare for a hurricane. The most essential need in natural disasters is clean water.
OCOA President/CEO Wendy Coschignano Ford

OCOA President/CEO Wendy Coschignano Ford

Welcome to June — and to hurricane season

Wendy Coschignano Ford
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
We know it is coming, as it does on June 1 of each year. There likely will be planning and unplanning, with much uncertainty. Yes, we will be anxious while glued to our local news stations and the Weather Channel. We never know when and where the potential threat may make landfall.
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