Living on the Beach during Hurricane Season...Florida

Captain Kirk, Spock here. This planet is not inhabitable.

Paul R Zartman said:

Well, its Hurricane season in Western Florida again... when the weather Channel has a spaghetti line heading toward me its time for weatherization of my collection.
1. heavily oil and grease the gun internals
2. heavily wax the exterior metal and wood.
3. freezer baggies for all pistols and ammo boxes, including BP and Smokeless powder containers.
4. 50 gallon drum bags for all rifles, then put between mattresses in bedrooms on 2nd floor
5. Pistols gently stacked in (waterproof ) safe...on 2nd floor
6. Make sure insurance was paid last month
7. Buy 4 cases of beer, 4 bottles of Bourbon, 2 cases of water and 8 bags of ice...
8. Hurricane Party at my place...PM me for invitation

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Better keep an eye on this one, Come Tuesday should know, it may be a intense storm. Kinda like Charley which will not be good!
Maybe mandatory evacuation if you are on the beach!

I'm braced this year... generator, batteries of propane tanks, shelves of canned goods, closets full of water jugs, MULTIPLE spare cell phones, canoes at ready, firearms packed in portable units.

And a playful wife.

What do you guys do with guns when you have to bug-out. I live in N GA and we saw a huge influx of folks from South Florida moving this far north with extra fuel cans strapped to roof racks a few years ago when one of the big ones hit. I don't recall the name.

I suppose if you only have a few you can take them with you. But in my case I'd have to leave some at home. Would a dry bag such as this work.

Amazon.com: Wise Owl Outfitters Waterproof Dry Bag - Fully Submersible 1pk or 3pk Ultra Lightweight Airtight Waterproof Bags - 5L, 10L and 20L Sizes - Diamond Ripstop Roll Top Drybags : Sports & Outdoors

And do they make anything big enough for long guns.

I grew up in Tampa, and many many moons ago I was a bartender at Crabby Bill's in Indian Rocks beach during a brief period after I left active duty the first time. A hurricane didn't matter, cause at the time I could pack everything I owned in my chevy blazer and just... leave. If my place was washed away, I didn't own it, so I would just find another. When I moved back to Fl 5 years ago, I moved to the panhandle inland north of I 10. Not hurricane proof, but I ride a cat 1 out with no concerns.

I have heard of people storing guns in their empty washing machine in the when threatened with a flood.

I need to go fill up the cars and gas cans, grab a few bags of ice for the coolers and buy some more beer. I have PLENTY of bottle water, can goods, and booze. I also need to verify the generator will fire up but don't really want to have to hook it up. the kicker is that my Mother-in-law is coming to town tomorrow for a week visit.

I grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and have survived many storms, including Katrina in 2005. I am not as worried about this storm as we are on the other side of the state. If all else fails the wife and I can bug out north to the Jacksonville area where I have some friends.

Prayers for all in hurricane areas.

IF I was gunna bug out, all the handguns would go with me, and a fair chunk of the most valuable rifles.
But-
I'm done running from storms. If it's gunna get you, it's gunna get you.

Im as ready as I can be. Its just a waiting game now.

I went to high school in Fort Myers and was around for all those early 2000’s storms. Charlie was the worst I can recall. We had a month straight off of school that year. Boy those pool party’s were a blast!

FL-NC said:

I grew up in Tampa

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Yep, me too. Lived there...other than my time in the military...thirty years. Finally moved away for good. Family still there. Still own a home there.

I only evacuated once. Ivan in 04. In part because I had a young family at the time. Earliest name storm I can remember was Elana in 85, but I've watched a lot of storms pass through our yard in my time there. Did hurricane duty with the Guard in 95.

Through all of that, I can't recall my dad or, later, myself, ever prepping guns for a hurricane. Prepping structures and supplies, sure. Helping neighbors and family, sure. SMH I can't think of a single time we ever gave a single thought to the guns. I don't even think I took a gun with me the year we evacuated, and the armory didn't hand on rifles when we activated for storms, either. (And that was after Andrew with all the looting.)

Paul R Zartman said:

Well, its Hurricane season in Western Florida again... when the weather Channel has a spaghetti line heading toward me its time for weatherization of my collection.
1. heavily oil and grease the gun internals
2. heavily wax the exterior metal and wood.
3. freezer baggies for all pistols and ammo boxes, including BP and Smokeless powder containers.
4. 50 gallon drum bags for all rifles, then put between mattresses in bedrooms on 2nd floor
5. Pistols gently stacked in (waterproof ) safe...on 2nd floor
6. Make sure insurance was paid last month
7. Buy 4 cases of beer, 4 bottles of Bourbon, 2 cases of water and 8 bags of ice...
8. Hurricane Party at my place...PM me for invitation

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Jezz man!!! I’ll be there at 12 noon, I’ll drop off some MRE’s

on a house note: we missed a house by $5,000 in Cape Coral about a year ago.

NIGHTLORD40K said:

IF I was gunna bug out, all the handguns would go with me, and a fair chunk of the most valuable rifles.
But-
I'm done running from storms. If it's gunna get you, it's gunna get you.

Im as ready as I can be. Its just a waiting game now.

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Gun Bug out.

yep! take all my handguns with me, put everything else into a 50 gallon yard bag, triple it, pour freash motor oil on everything, seal, and then seal in a trash can and duck tape the living daylights out of it.

Paul R Zartman said:

Don't forget to identify it with large letters, "Marks Guns and Ammo" so you can identify it as its floating down the ICW.

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If things are floating down, We got bigger issues

Me? Looks like I'll be losing a three day booking later this week (right when Ian comes calling) out of Everglades City when Mother Nature hits the "re-set button"... Hope everyone stays safe and very glad my house is on the Atlantic side.... Most of the areas I fish during daylight are in the Everglades coastal area - and every bit of it is actually temporary (until the next storm comes along...). To drive the point home my commercial insurance as a very small charterboat operator - has a much bigger deductible for storm damage - designed to get all of us securing our property before the storm comes along....

Praying for y’all !

Regarding guns and other metal stuff and hurricane woes, this was an excellent thread ten years ago.

Spoiler: have a case of Ballistol on hand….

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...llistol-a-survival-story.751644/#post-9467760

D.B. Cooper said:

Earliest name storm I can remember was Elana in 85,

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I remember that one. I went to visit a friend at USF and was "stuck" there for like 3 days partying. A few years later when I lived at IRB, my falling-down house on the beach was next to a little store called Elana '85, cause it survived undamaged.