LCEC – Lee County Electric Cooperative

How Customers Can Prepare

HAVE A FAMILY/BUSINESS PLAN

The most important precaution you can take to reduce damage to your home and/or business and keep your loved ones safe is to be prepared. LCEC encourages all customers to prepare for disasters, including making plans for potential outages.

DOCUMENT THE PLAN

There are many resources available to help formulate your plan. Visit your local Emergency Management website or www.Ready.gov for tips.

DEVELOPING A PLAN

1. Hold a family/employee meeting and involve everyone.
2. Know your evacuation zone and where to evacuate if the order is given. Consider a visit with family and friends outside the evacuation zone. Visit your local Emergency Management website to learn about evacuation plans.
3. Inventory home/business and contents. Video/photograph valuables.
4. Review insurance policies, including vehicle policies.
5. Look for vulnerabilities such as the roof, windows, garage door and safeguard if possible.
6. Care for landscaping, tree branches near electric lines using a qualified line clearance arborist, and determine a safe way to reduce airborne objects.
7. Determine where to park vehicles, boats, or RVs.
8. Plan to install shutters and/or purchasing a generator.
9. Plan in advance for people with special needs.
10. Develop a plan for pets.
11. Determine food, water and medical needs.
12. Share the plan with others, and establish an out-of-town contact so they can check on you after the storm.

LOOK FOR VULNERABILITIES

• Check the roof
• Check the doors and window – shutter if possible
• Remove debris. Secure items that can become airborne
• Trim vegetation and remove dead branches. Brace newly planted trees.

HAVE A BACKUP POWER PLAN

If life or livelihood depends on electricity, please plan to have a safe backup power source or an alternate plan to stay safe until power can be restored to your location. Backup computer information and important documents and store at a secondary location.