In the event of natural disaster

[Mustangrde1]

After reading the thread on Escapes I was thinking to myself What would you do if you had a Hurricane or sever weather or fire racing toward you. We normally do get some warning on these Natural disasters. So I ask everyone What would you do to protect yourself and the public in the event of a pending Natural disaster.:grab:

[unBOAlievable]

I have pondered on this thought for many years. I do not have to worry about hurricanes to much, but tornadoes are becoming allto common around our area. I honestly do not know what to do in the event of a tornadoe. I could build a shelter but it would take forever to bag/bucket all of my reptiles to put them in it. My wife has been planning on our next house/facility and we are going totally underground.

[Mustangrde1]

Tornadoes don't give to much warning I am curious if midwest keepers have thought or do keep their hots in a underground area durring the tornado season. For an hurricane i was thinking about getting some of the heavy duty fire safe's and drilling some holes in them. At warning of a Hurricane I think I could be able to bag the animals and put them in those and lock them. As a Restoration Construction worker for almost 17 years ive been on many fires and wind damages and when in California on earthquakes. the only thing ive seen that withstands them all is those safe's.

Please anyone with any other thoughts i would love to hear them.

[SCReptiles]

According to my first supervisor at the nature center, this has already came into play. According to her, hurricane Andrew ripped up a large serpitorium in FL whenever it came aground in the early 1990’s. I don’t recall the exact date or location that it hit, but as I was told it released many exotic snakes into the area. Of course the storm killed many of them, but I am sure a few escaped. As the story goes they brought in all the local snake hunters and they tracked down as many as they could, warned the locals and let nature run its course. I don’t think any problems were reported from it. An earth quake rocked us about two months ago. Tennessee state law prevents me from keeping my venomous snakes at my home, so they are housed with a friend in GA. The quake hit about 500am, he tells me the first thing he did was run to the hot room to make sure nothing had turned over. I guess the only thing we can do is use sturdy cages. If there is enough advanced warning, they could be moved in lock top plastic buckets, reducing the chance of escape.