How to improve sheltering issues during a hurricane.

[rawkfist]

I am doing a paper on disaster preparedness in my community. I live in a hurricane prone area. I am supposed to make recommendation on a selected knowledge and behavior. I chose sheltering issues. What can I recommend to improve sheltering issues during a hurricane? any Ideas..

[rn/writer, RN]

Why don't you tell us what you think first. What kind of area do you live in? What types of shelters are currently available?

You might want to contact the Red Cross or the Salvation Army or local municipalities to see what the status quo is and where there are needs for improvement.

[P_RN, ADN, RN]

Around here all the small time used car lots and junk yards are filled to the brim with FEMA trailers. After all the FED spent on them I wonder who is making the profit. Surely not the survivors.

[Zookeeper3]

try pulling the fema plan from the internet

[scoochy]

You can obtain info from noaa.com

[steelydanfan]

I am doing a paper on disaster preparedness in my community. I live in a hurricane prone area. I am supposed to make recommendation on a selected knowledge and behavior. I chose sheltering issues. What can I recommend to improve sheltering issues during a hurricane? any Ideas..

Not your job; you are a nurse, not a municipal planner.

[roser13, ASN, RN]

Not your job; you are a nurse, not a municipal planner.

Maybe not - non-nurses come here all the time - apparently for advice from nurses. OP didn't say he/she was a nurse, just a student.

[Simply Complicated]

Not quite sure what direction you are trying to go on this. But I have worked in hurricane shelters as a nurse, and I can tell you that it is chaos in those shelters. The workers can be very disorganized, people don't really know where they are supposed to be, what they need to be doing. They tend to run out of food, which causes the victims staying there to get angry as they have to wait to eat.

It seemed at times like the staffing for the shelters was so last minute that they were scrambling to get them covered, which affected the way they were run.

[bagladyrn, RN]

Here's one thought for you to work on -

I'm from FL and know of many, particularly elders in my mother's retirement community who will not evacuate to shelters because they can't make provisions for their pet (usually a cat or dog). They remain in unsafe conditions in modular homes because they don't feel they can abandon their animal or leave it alone for days at a time.

Perhaps something could be done to address this in cooperation with the SPCA or local vets.