Hurricane Season 2007 Begins

[kman]

Today is the first day of the 2007 hurricane season. And just in case people thought this date would pass without much notice, Tropical Storm Barry has formed off the western coast of Florida. Barry isn't expected to do much more than dump some much-needed rain on Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.

Maybe Barry will help to wake up people and get them thinking about making preparations for a much worse storm. Some forecasters are predicting 17 named storms this year, with 9 of them being hurricanes (74+ mph winds).

If you're in Florida, you have the next 12 days (until June 12, 2007) to take advantage of a sales-tax holiday for essential storm supplies.

And speaking of storm supplies, Jim Macdonald had some good suggestions for hurricane supply lists over at this blog post:

• Hurricane Survival Kit #1
  Hurricane Survival Kit #2
  Hurricane Survival Kit #3
  Tampa Tribune List

Be sure to check out Jim's Jump Kits page, too.

And of course, don't forget to stock up on MREs! eBay prices on military MREs are pretty good right now and as always, there's a great selection of civilian MREs at The Epicenter and MREFoods.com.

[kman]

Following up on my comment about Florida's Sales Tax Holiday on hurricane preparedness supplies, here's the official list of what's exempt:

http://dor.myflorida.com/dor/tips/tip07a01-04.html

[SoFloAuthor]

An article in yesterday's Fort Lauderdale paper indicated 20% of Floridians think it's the GOVERNMENTS responsibility to provide FOOD, WATER and SHELTER after a hurricane.

The article also said over 50% of Flor-idiots have taken no steps to prepare themselves what so ever.

The best way to avoid these folks is to stay home!

Now's a real good time to check and make sure you have everything you believe your family will need while the rest wiat in line for "them" to come help.....

"We're from the Government and we're here to help" Uhhhh, NO THANKS

The winds still blowin but the sun is peeking out....Barry blew, the weather sucked and the rain was very needed....

[kman]

It looks like Home Depot is matching Florida's "no tax" rate of 7.5% with another 7.5% off of all hurricane supplies. So that's 15% off for Florida residents.

Even better, Home Depot is offering the extra 7.5% off on generators to everyone online:

http://www6.homedepot.com/hurricane/tax ... x_Interior