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Should I Stay in My Apartment or Condo?

Under most circumstances, you should stay in your apartment or condo during a hurricane IF AND ONLY IF:

• You live on the third floor or below.
• You have confidence in the strength of the construction.
• You have shutters for all of the windows, doors, and sliding doors, or they have impact glass.
• You are outside the evacuation zone.

If any one of these criterion is NOT met, you should secure your apartment or condo as best you can and find safe shelter elsewhere. If you are NOT in an evacuation zone and your building is well built, if possible, make arrangements to ride out the storm in a hallway, stairwell, or safe storm with no windows on the second or third storm.

For information on how to prepare a safe room, click here.