VITEMA Advises on How to Review, Replenish Disaster Supply Kits for Hurricane Season

As this year’s Atlantic hurricane season begins, now is the time to update your disaster supplies kit! You may need to survive on your own for some time after a tropical storm or hurricane makes landfall in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency (VITEMA) advises the following:

Your family will most likely need food, water and other emergency supplies to last for several days, even up to two weeks after a storm or other disaster. Do not wait for a storm to be here before you review the basic items your household may need for an emergency.

Roads might be impassable, gas stations and grocery stores closed, power off and communications uncertain for several days after a storm makes landfall. Building your household’s emergency supply kit before the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season will help avoid panic and making the wrong decisions on what to include in your kit.