However, you can follow some safety tips to safeguard yourself as well as your properties.

A house becomes vulnerable when the weak points of the house are not protected. The weak points are the windows, doors, patios and so on, from which the stormy winds can hit the house.

You can safeguard your house and all its belongings through hurricane shutter installations. These shutters are typically exclusive to prevent the wind force as well as the flying objects and particles of the house.

What are Hurricanes?

When a tropical weather system rotating with low pressure is a Hurricane. Tropical depressions are systems with maximum sustained surface winds of less than 39 miles per hour (mph). Tropical storms are defined as having maximum sustained winds of 39 mph or more. Hurricanes are storms with maximum sustained winds of 74 mph or higher. Based on a storm's maximum sustained winds, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale assigns a hurricane a rating, or category, from 1 to 5. The possibility of property destruction increases with the hurricane category.

Hence more than 74 mph wind in these areas is a hurricane, and it may reach even more than 254 mph or more.

Threats of Hurricane
Hurricanes have the capability to cause limitless devastation to both island and coastal areas. The threats of a hurricane may include the following

 High winds
 Storm surge
 Tornadoes
 Heavy rainfall
 Rip currents
 Inland flooding

The hurricane attacking date of each year may vary but it starts usually from June 1 to November 30. The storm mostly affects Massachusetts from late August through September.

Warning of tropical Storms and hurricane

Usually, the national weather service issues the tropical storms related alerts. They try to alert common people about the arrival and strength of the storms so that people can understand the intensity of the storm and stay protected from the damaging effects of the storms.

What to do in advance of a hurricane?

Receive alerts, cautions, and information about public safety to keep yourself informed before, during, and after emergencies.

Recognize Your Zone. Don’t go out or roam here and there during a hurricane.

Find out if your property is located in a high-risk or flood zone. Examine the flood maps provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Make a strategy for family emergencies and work on it.
You should be ready to escape if you live or work in a flood zone, a hurricane-prone zone, or a flood-prone location.

Work with your medical provider to decide how to continue care and service if you are unable to leave your house or evacuate if you get medical treatment or home health care services.

What to do in advance of a hurricane

 Receive alerts, cautions, and information about public safety to keep yourself informed before, during, and after emergencies.
 Recognize Your Zone. Find out if you must evacuate during a hurricane.
 Find out if your property is located in a high-risk or flood zone. Examine the flood maps provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
 Make a strategy for family emergencies and go over it.
 You should be ready to escape if you live or work in a flood zone, a hurricane evacuation zone, or a flood-prone location.
 Work with your medical provider to decide how to continue care and service if you are unable to leave your house or must evacuate if you get medical treatment or home health care services.
 Keep an emergency kit handy
 Follow the instructions the official declares to stay safe
 Be ready for the obvious power outage
 Make sure the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are fresh.
 To provide power during a blackout, think about buying a generator. Before a power loss, read the manufacturer's instructions and become familiar with safe usage.
 Notify your utility and communicate with your physicians to make plans for power outages if you have any medical devices that require electricity, such as life-support systems or other medical supplies or equipment.

Prepare your home

Apart from all these alerts, you must consider the hurricane shutter installations so that you can stay safe and secure from the damaging effects of the hurricane. These shutters help prevent the intensity of winds that enters through the weak and vulnerable points of a house. Book accordion shutters installation experts, who can install them perfectly to prevent your house by protecting the vulnerable weak points.

So, contact Guardian Hurricane to safeguard your house from the susceptive damaging hurricane. Contact them now.