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Moveable awning* should be raised and securely tied, or removed entirely.
4. Shutters should be secured at quickly as possible. Delay may make impossible any chance to get them into proper position, thus resulting in damage.
5. Garage doors and other large doors should be securely braced against movement either in or out.
6. Loose material and moveable objects, such as boards, garbage cans, porch furniture and the like, should be placed where there is no danger of being lifted and blown against a building or through a window.
7. One or more windows should be kept open on the lee side—the side opposite from which the wind is coming—to provide some ventilation and, under certain conditions, to prevent wind damage and to equalize pressure.
8. Temporary lighting methods, preferably electric flashlights^, should be arranged for use in case electric current is cut off.
9. Occupants of buildings on low ground or near waterfronts, which might be inundated or carried away by high water, should immediately go to safer buildings on higher ground.
10. Most important of all the above precautions: Stay indoors during the progress of the hurricane. Don’t mistake a lull in the storm as it’s end. It may be the "eye” or center—usually 14 miles* in diameter—passing overhead.
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