 Hello, my name is Demetrius Romp, the Director of Safety and Risk Management for the City of Columbia. This is your monthly safety message for the City of Columbia employees and the public. Today my topic will be talking about hurricane safety information. Mother nature will show her face and you just don't know what type of facial expression you will get from her. So with that being said, I want you to remember to listen to these helpful safety tips and follow these instructions. It is good for you and your family to develop an emergency action plan. In that action plan you should determine when you will meet up and how you will contact one another. Also too it is very important you put together an emergency kit to include water, batteries, a charger for your cell phone, a radio, disinfected cleaning, food for potentially three days because if you have to evacuate you may not know how long you may be. Also too it is recommended that you fill your gas with gas just due to the fact that gas is one of the first things that may go out just due to the fact of power outages. Also in the planning stages make sure you look at the evacuation plan that the state has and so you know how to direct yourself. Put together important documents in a plastic so they're not damaged. During the hurricane make sure you stay inside, keep away from windows, make sure you stay in the center part of the house and also to just monitor the radio and your cell phone. I'm going to talk about also we're in the pandemic crisis. There are some other things that you should do in reference to COVID-19. Make sure you have enough mass of face coverings because you don't know how long you're going to be gone and that also in your kit for COVID-19 include hand sanitizer, disinfected, wipes and so forth and so on. It is just so important to do in this time that dealing with mother nature you prepare yourself for hurricane safety and the pandemic crisis. It is up to you to make sure you take care of yourself and your family. Your number one priority is your personal safety. Remember safety starts with an S but it begins with you. Thank you.