Storm Prep for Your New Paltz Home or Business

9/1/2021 (Permalink)

Get your home or business prepped ahead of time to have piece of mind and safety before bad weather hits!

September is National Preparedness Month, an yearly awareness promotion sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help everyone get a leg up on preparing themselves, families and businesses in the event of a disaster. This year’s theme is “Prepare to Protect. Preparing for disasters is protecting everyone you love.”

While we’ve all been watching the devastation in Louisiana caused by Hurricane Ida and the torrential downpours it’s brought up to Ulster County, it’s harsh realities serve as a reminder for home and business property owners to review their emergency and disaster plans.

While Ulster County has seen some significant property damage in the months of September and October in recent years, we have been spared from it all. Flooding, roof leaks, broken windows, electrical fires, sewage back-ups and downed trees are always possibilities in our area, regardless of hurricane status or not.

While your home and its contents are vitally important to remedy immediately from storm damage, commercial restoration has the same time frame but presents unique challenges in and of itself due to the sheer nature of size and layout. Building structures, employees, clients or customers, inventory, files, documents, and other crucial elements can all be affected and with varying degrees.

It’s important to have a solid and comprehensive emergency plan for home or business that has critical information about the location of utility shut-off valves, fire system controls, network info if applicable and emergency contact numbers in addition to emergency escape plans and other critical disaster information. Having this all at your fingertips can save emergency responders precious time and help contain damage and minimize injury.

SERVPRO of Kingston/New Paltz knows the time to create an emergency plan is before you need it. There are several valuable websites that offer potentially life-saving info whether it be for a fire-escape plan for your family, a to-do list for your pets in a storm-related emergency, a list of how-to’s for your elderly family members or an all encompassing guide for commercial or business property owners in the event of a crisis. www.Ready.gov is a great resource of where to begin your research.

There is some piece of mind in knowing that you can to help protect your family, home, pets, business, employees or commercial property from storm damage by having a plan in place and by calling SERVPRO of Kingston/New Paltz. We’re always here to help. Our storm damage professionals are available for any emergency 24/7 at (845) 255-4334.