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A Category 5 Strike Devastates Your House

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What do you do if you’re in the line of fire of a Category 5 strike? First you pray. And then you hope you can rise to your training to protect your family and to be of assistance to others in need.

You want to be the one that has prepared as much as possible for such events so you can be calm when others cannot.

A great place to start is to simply observe your vulnerabilities. Have you cut back trees that are hanging near your house? Has your neighbor cut back their trees that are hanging over a power transformer in your yard? Take it from me, it can get ugly, fast.

What’s Your Exit Plan?

Do you have an exit plan? If so what is it? No one can know what works best for your family better than you.

And you can’t predict how a disaster will affect you. I’ve talked to several people in Houston and it’s literally a difference of night and day from one neighborhood to another. Some are flooded out big time and others are dry. The pictures we all have seen are unbelievable.

Thinking ahead is really all one can do. Like these folks did to save their home.

Avoid a Nightmare

Now Irma is on Florida’s doorstep and the nightmares we’re hearing about the traffic from Key West to Orlando and beyond is scary. Mandatory evacuations aren’t going solve a gas shortage. And it’s only the beginning.

How this all unfolds is hardly predictable, but one thing we all can learn is that any little thing we can do to improve our preparedness puts us one step closer to coming out alive and hopefully in a position to help others.

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E.J. Smith is the Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998. E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention. E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris. Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@youngresearch.com. Sign up here to receive all the best content from Richardcyoung.com each week.

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