What will you do first to prepare for Florida’s 2022 hurricane season? Take our poll

The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be another active one, with NOAA predicting an “above-average” season, with 14 to 21 named storms.

It’s time to get ready.

You need to start prepping your hurricane kit with enough food, water and medicine for your family and pets, checking your shutters for any potential repairs and figuring out where you’ll store all your outdoor patio furniture if a storm comes.

Some of you might be thinking about buying a generator in case you lose power during a storm. People who live in evacuation zones, such as downtown Miami, also have to think about what essential documents and items they’ll pack up if an evacuation is needed.

Make sure you take advantage of Florida’s hurricane supply tax holiday, which runs May 28 through June 10, to get supplies online and at brick-and-mortar stores.

There’s a lot to think about (and a lot to do) for hurricane season.

So, what’s the first thing you plan on buying or doing to prepare for this year’s hurricane season? And if a tropical storm or hurricane is forecast to hit Florida, where will you go first for final preparations?

Take our survey to let us know. This isn’t scientific, it’s just to see what readers think. If you don’t see the survey, make sure to turn off your ad blocker.

This story was originally published May 27, 2022 at 8:14 AM.

Michelle Marchante

Miami Herald

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Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow.  Support my work with a digital subscription