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Hurricane Support for Family Back Home

A hurricane plan for family back home, run from abroad: contact trees, alerts, a storm fund, documents, house and insurance checks, the first 72 hours after landfall and the repairs and relief that follow.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Hurricane Support for Family Back Home, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

🌴 Caribbean Life & Diaspora

Hurricane Support for Family Back Home

Helping family through hurricane season from abroad: preparedness checklists, emergency funds, communication plans, insurance and relief after a storm.

  1. Storm risk snapshot for each family house
  2. Family hurricane contact tree across countries
  3. Backup communication plan for when phones go down
  4. Hurricane season alerts and calendar set-up
  5. Shelter and evacuation plan for each household
  6. Emergency storm fund for family back home
  7. Waterproof document bag for the family home
  8. Family hurricane plan call across time zones
  9. Medicines and prescriptions stocked before peak season
  10. Pre-season roof, window and door inspection
  11. Hurricane supply kit for the household
  12. Storm watch countdown when a system threatens
  13. Quarterly readiness call with the household
  14. Generator and backup power upkeep
  15. Water storage and tank upkeep
  16. Home insurance renewal before each season
  17. Yard, trees and drains kept storm-ready
  18. End-of-season review each December
  19. Retainer with a trusted local handyman
  20. Reading hurricane forecasts and the cone
  21. How disaster management works back home
  22. Understanding windstorm cover in a home policy
  23. Storm-proofing basics for a Caribbean house
  24. Health and safety risks after a storm
  25. Spotting relief scams and fake fundraisers
  26. Listening support for family after a storm
  27. Choosing a satellite messenger for the family home
  28. Choosing a generator or solar battery backup
  29. Hurricane shutters or impact windows decision
  30. Roof straps and fixings upgrade
  31. Flood-proofing the ground floor
  32. Emergency money routes when banks are down
  33. Photo and video inventory of the house and contents
  34. Parametric storm cover for a relative's livelihood
  35. First 72 hours after landfall
  36. Relief barrel after a storm
  37. Filing an insurance claim after storm damage
  38. Trip home to help after a storm
  39. Managing storm repairs from abroad
  40. Applying for government and agency relief
  41. Storm plan for a parent living alone
  42. Storm plan for a relative with complex care needs
  43. Helping children back home through a storm
  44. When you cannot reach family after a storm
  45. Relative staying with you after a storm
  46. Saying yes and no to storm requests from wider family
  47. Looking after yourself during a storm from afar
  48. Rebuilding stronger after a destroyed roof or house
  49. Relief collection among relatives and friends abroad
  50. Five-year resilience plan for the family home

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Storm risk snapshot for each family house

Before you can help from abroad, you need to know what you are protecting: whether Granny's house in St Thomas sits on a hillside that slips, beside a gully that floods, or under a breadfruit tree that leans over the roof. One page per household, covering location, construction, roof type, who lives there and their health, turns a vague worry into a short list of risks you can actually work on.

First tasks

  • List every household back home you would help in a storm and who lives in each
  • Ask a relative to walk the house and yard with you on a video call
  • Ask the local council or disaster office whether the district floods or slips
  • Rank the three biggest storm risks for each house in the register
  • Update the snapshot after repairs or a change of who lives there @recurring(yearly)

Family hurricane contact tree across countries

When a storm passes over Grenada at two in the morning, ten relatives in three countries will all ring the same aunt whose phone battery is already low. A contact tree decides who calls whom, so the household back home makes one call out and the news travels outward without draining the one phone that matters.

First tasks

  • Write down every relative who will want news after a storm and where they live
  • Agree who the household back home calls first and who that person rings next
  • Name a backup for every person who has a role in the tree
  • Print the tree in large type for the house back home
  • Ring through the tree to confirm every number before the season @recurring(yearly)

Backup communication plan for when phones go down

After Hurricane Maria, parts of Dominica were cut off for days, and many families abroad learned their relatives were safe only through a radio message or a neighbour's post. Agreeing in advance what the household will try, in what order, and how long silence lasts before you worry, saves hours of panic when the mobile network and the light (electricity, as most of the region says it) are both gone.

First tasks

  • Agree the order of channels the household will try after a storm
  • Set fixed check-in times for the evening before and the morning after landfall
  • Send the house two power banks or a small solar charger
  • Note which local radio stations read out family messages after storms
  • Test a text-only check-in with each household on a calm day @recurring(yearly)

Make it yours.

Install Hurricane Support for Family Back Home, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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