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May 14, 2009 4:00 pm US/Eastern
Floridians Urged To Prepare For Hurricane Season
FORT LAUDERDALE (CBS4) ―
Floridians take note: Hurricane season is less than three weeks away and government officials remind you to start stocking up.
"Every Florida family should be prepared, should have a plan and be on guard," Gov. Charlie Crist said on Thursday at a luncheon at the Governor's Hurricane Conference in Fort Lauderdale.
He said Sunshine State residents should also have three days worth of bottled water and canned food and urged people to be prepared for hurricane season that begins on June 1st and lasts through November.
"The real strength of Florida is our ability to work together whether it's at the federal level, the state level or the local level," Crist said. "I think that the obvious thing is: Just be ready."
Interim Director of the state's Division of Emergency Management Ruben Almaquer said Floridians should not become complacent and said his agency needed to improve on how to get its message out.
"For as much as we will talk to the media and reach out and through interactive ways and technology that talk to everybody about preparedness, I would say we will never be able to reach 18 million people for some reason," Almaquer said.
His agency plans to launch a Web site for children that teaches them what they can to stay safe during hurricane season and instructs them on how to create their own disaster kit.
He added that he plans to send out press releases in Spanish, English and Creole.
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