PREPARATION IS EVERYTHING

By Jan Bergemann

Published September 4, 2015

  

ERIKA fizzled into nowhere – and here in Deland the remnants created less problems than a regular summer thunderstorm.

 

Nevertheless – remember the Boy Scouts motto: “Be Prepared!

 

Even if this storm – with all the big hype for many days in advance – didn’t make it, please don’t make the mistake and ignore any warnings for an upcoming storm in the future. This is FLORIDA – and we will be getting more hurricanes – like it or not! It’s just a matter of time.

 

Consider yourself lucky that we didn’t get any real hurricane in the last ten years, but one day we will get hit again – and then you better be prepared!

Preparation is everything. You will be able to weather the next hurricane much better if you are properly prepared and if you made sure that everything is stored away.

 

There are many official websites telling you what you should do in order to prepare for the storm threatening on the horizon. The hurricanes in 2004 and 2005 hit many people much worse than necessary because they were unprepared and didn’t know how to deal with the problems caused by the hurricanes.

 

On the other hand I really can’t understand why our government officials still allow homes (and trailers) to be rebuilt that will “fly away” with even a really small storm hitting Florida.

 

Make no mistake: Florida isn’t the only place in the world that gets hit by heavy storms and high winds. But other countries know not to allow buildings to be rebuilt that are unable to withstand wind of 60 or 70 miles an hour.

 

I grew up in Germany where you have normally autumn and winter storms with very high winds. But you barely ever hear about electricity failure or serious damage to buildings. But there the electricity cables are under ground, unlike here in Florida where you have overland wires that were fashionable 80 years ago.

 

We know that we will get hit with a hurricane sooner or later. Why are the building departments permitting to put up the same kind of trailer that got destroyed already during the last three hurricanes?

 

DON’T WE EVER LEARN?


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Jan Bergemann Jan Bergemann is president of Cyber Citizens For Justice, Florida 's largest state-wide property owners' advocacy group. CCFJ works on legislation to help owners living in community  

associations. He moved to Florida in 1995 - hoping to retire. He moved into a HOA, where the developer cheated the homeowners and used the association dues for his own purposes. End of retirement!

 

CCFJ was born in the year 2000, when some owners met in Tallahassee - finding out that power is only in numbers. Bergemann was a member of Governor Jeb Bush's HOA Task force in 2003/2004.

 

The organization has two websites to inform interested Florida homeowners and condo owners:

News Website: http://www.ccfj.net/.

Educational Website: http://www.ccfjfoundation.net/.

   
We think that only owners can really represent owners, since all service providers surely have a different interest! We are trying to create owner-friendly laws, but the best laws are useless without enforcement. And enforcement is totally lacking in Florida !


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