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Blog #277: Hurricane Ian (Part 1)

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By now, I’m pretty sure all of you have been following the path of one Hurricane Ian out in the Gulf of Mexico. As of this blog, this storm is forecasted to impact western Florida between Cat 1 and Cat 3 status. But it’s important to remember that now is not a time to panic, but to prepare as calmly and as orderly as possible.


Like I mentioned in previous blogs, I always find it annoying and unnecessary to go ballistic over a storm. Sure, some people like the thrill of being in the chaos that is storm preparation and for some, it’s an absolute annoyance. For some who has special needs or anxiety, it’s an absolute nightmare.

As someone who has their eastern business division in Florida, I can only imagine all the emotions that people have right now. Many of them are my colleagues and friends who in the direct path of the storm between Tampa and Fort Myers. Of course, this certainly isn’t the first time, and it certainly won’t be the last that my friends and colleagues in Florida experience a hurricane. All you can really do is prepare for the storm by staying in your lane and not letting other people spread their excitement or fear to you.

Our world is already in enough doo-doo as it is and the only thing that matters is your mental health.


However, if you are a special needs parent/guardian or autism/neurodiversity parent/guardian, a good way to help your special needs loved one is to possibly create a social story for the child to understand why we have to prepare for a hurricane. Social stories are designed to describe, in the simplest possible way, why we have to do certain things and events such as prepare for a storm like Hurricane Ian.

I’ll go over more about this in a future blog, but social stories are a good tool to be used to get a message across without sugarcoating it.

But when all is said and done, if you in the path of Hurricane Ian, the only advice I can give you is to listen to all instructions including if you need to evacuate from Ian’s path. Trust me, it’s better to be safe than sorry in the end.

Catch you all later and stay safe!!

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