BASIC PREPARATION

• Protect Your Home
• Quiz

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  Now Is the Time to Plan What to Do if Storm Hits
  
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  Keep a Hurricane Survival Kit at the Ready
  
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  Planning Can Keep Meals Healthy, Easy to Serve
  
• Here Are Tips That Seniors (And Anyone Else) Can Use
  
• Don't Be Relaxed About Storm Prep
  

SECURING YOUR HOME

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  Learn How to Protect Your Home
  

EVACUATION

• 2010 POLK COUNTY PUBLIC SHELTERS

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  Emergency Center Handles Polk's Storm Defense
  Gallery
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  Stay in Touch With Social Media
  
• When Hurricane Threatens, Exhaust Options Before Going to Shelter
  
• Websites That Can Provide Information
  
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  2010 Polk County Public Shelters
  

PETS

• Pet Q&A
  
• Accommodations that Accept Pets
  

STORM BASICS

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  Forecasters See Active Storm Season Ahead
  
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  Survivors of 1935 Key West Hurricane Haunted by Memories
  
• Storms Can Still Outsmart Forecasts
  
• Storm Warnings, Watches to Come Earlier
  

Latest Ledger Coverage

• More Storm News

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  NASA Scientists Study Hurricane Earl's Strength
  
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  Powerful Storm Scraping Against N. Carolina's Islands
  
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  Island Evacuations Begin as Earl Bears Down on East Coast
  
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  Hurricane Earl Threatens U.S. Coast After Battering Caribbean
  
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  Category 4 Hurricane Earl Could Trigger Evacuations Along East Coast
  
• Surfer Dies Near Satellite Beach as Hurricanes Roil Atlantic
  
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  Hurricane Earl Batters Caribbean, Threatens U.S. East Coast
  
• Hurricane Danielle Heads For Bermuda; Earl Strengthens
  
• Hurricane Danielle Strengthens
  
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  Hurricane Danielle Now Category 2 Storm
  
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  Drone Starts New Era In Hurricane Study
  
• Hurricane Forecast Revised, Busy Season Still Expected
  
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  Tropical Storm Colin Forms, Becoming 3rd of Season
  
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  Bonnie Loses Steam Over Fla.
  
• Bonnie Drops Less Than An Inch of Rain in Polk
  
• Remains of Alex Drench Mexico; 2 Die
  
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  Now a Hurricane, Alex Churns Toward Mexico, Texas Coasts
  
• Annual Polk County Hurricane Expo Saturday in Winter Haven
  
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  Florida's Hurricane Catastrophe Fund in Good Shape
  
• Polk County Hurricane Expo Coming Saturday in Winter Haven