Hurricane

PHOTO/UNICEF If your family or area is affected by a major storm, set aside time to talk with your children about how they feel once things settle down. Emotional trauma can take months to heal at any age.

PHOTO/UNICEF If your family or area is affected by a major storm, set aside time to talk with your children about how they feel once things settle down. Emotional trauma can take months to heal at any age.

How to prepare your children for a hurricane

Provided by Nicklaus Children’s Hospitals In the midst of hurricane season, it’s important for parents to talk with their children and provide guidance and support in the case of an emergency, like a hurricane. A young child may be worried about being separated from his/her mother.
PHOTO/ACCUWEATHER Despite not being a named storm over Florida, the disturbance that became Tropical Storm Alex dropped heavy rain, up to 11 inches, over South and Southwest Florida.

PHOTO/ACCUWEATHER Despite not being a named storm over Florida, the disturbance that became Tropical Storm Alex dropped heavy rain, up to 11 inches, over South and Southwest Florida.

The 2022 season thus far – the potential for storms

The word of the month of June in the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season has been … potential.
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

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?

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

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?

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

Following the lead of the last two extremely active hurricane seasons, leading hurricane researchers say 2022 will be more of the same.
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Approaching Hurricane Season

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.
Get prepared for storm season at St. Cloud's Hurricane Expo.

Get prepared for storm season at St. Cloud's Hurricane Expo.

Hurricane Expo, Sunset Cruise highlight City of St. Cloud's coming events

Hurricane season is officially here, and the City of St. Cloud will present a free Hurricane Expo at the St. Cloud Civic Center on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Expo will provide the public tips from the experts and other helpful information to get residents prepared for what is expected to...