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In typical Quora fashion, and as cleraly evidenced by many of the rather simplistic and Jingoistic Canadian comments here, this question feeds perfectly into the Canadian inferiority complex regarding the USA.You will see countless comments about Canadians “Not wanting to join the USA”, as if they were invited or as if America wants that. No one does. Canada is just a pleasant but rather boring and undynamic, uncharasmatic neighbor. Canadians have always been Roger Clinton to the USA’s Bill Clinton, so they lash out about America’s politics and culture in a form of national sour-grapes. So many Canadians are vocal about “We are not Americans”… your very identity is partly based on comparing yourself to America to a fault… you doth protest too much. The truth is, Americans don’t care or think about it that much. We have too much stuff going on here to be obsessed with Canada to the extent Canadians are obsessed wth the USA (as you can see in the littany of vitriolic and poorly-informed comments based on mostly CBC talking-points from Canadians above). When Americans discuss Canada, it is light fare, usually humorous and sarcastic, in a sense, they are a funny afterthought and subsequently dismissed. Contrast that with Canadians’ rather serious, haughty, laser-focus on the USA’s government, politics, and culture as expemplified in this thread. You don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to connect the psychological dots.Canadians talk about how much less racist and how much more diverse they are… while America takes in more immigrants and refugees than any other nation and is the most diverse nation on eath, and despite media sensationalism and identity politics, makes it work (after all, we are the world’s most succesful economy and anchor of global economics and trade). It is clear which nation the world would rather go to, if you look at people voting with their feet. This of course flies in the face of inane comments such as “Duh, I hate to break it to you, but the US is the most hated nation on earth”. How the most hated nation on earth has more immigration than any other nation… heck… some continents, doesn’t square logically.The talk about their superior Universal Health care, which is really about wealth redistribution, but their ability to provide healthcare is almost purely a function of American medical advancements. One only has to look at American phamaceutical and medical technology patents vs. Canada’s. It is also quite telling that many Canadians come south for the more serious procedures… including their politicians. Also, health care being a “right” is problematic at best… the idea that the intellectual achievements, technology, edcucation, training, and certifications required to practice medicine, all large costs and via sacrifice to those who invest in them, are automatically everyone’s “right”? Nonsense. Rights are inalienable freedoms and liberties, they are not services and commodities, or economic mechanisms that come at the expense of others.They talk about their superior education, leaving out that the the US has the most extensive and highest-rated Collegiate System in the world, and of course leave out the fact that, despite their supposed academic prowess, it does not produce results. Silicon Valley, Tesla, soon-to-emerge driverless cars, full-spectrum dominance of aerospace and space, anchoring the global economy and it’s modern digital underpinnings, science, technology, medicine, culture… all led by the USA.Not Canada…. not Europe. The USA.They talk about our gun culture, which is completely misunderstood and way overinflated as a problem. It is a problem for fearful people ignorant of firearms. Americans don’t think it is OK for an authoritarian state to decide who does and does not get firearms. This goes back to the revolution, and is embedded in our culture. Canadians remained as subjects of the crown, Americans forged our own path. Canadians are more fearful than Americans. They are more willing to concede to government authority. They are much less intrepid. Americans take risks, Canadians don’t. Americans are willing to swing on th trapeeze without a net… Canadians want the safety harness… thus they are not a big draw in the circus of earth.They talk about their excellent, more modern “Charter”, which is just an emulation of our constitution, the 1st ever document that outlined a society based on the rule of law and ideas, not the authority of a monarchy. There would be no Charter without the Constitution as a template, without US leadership and ideals. They of course also conveniently leave out that Canadian law restricts free speech, freedom of choice, and freedom of expression, as well as firearm possession. Make no mistake, Canadians have less rights, not more.They talk about how “Peaceful” they are, which of course is easy to do when you share a border and strategicly important geography with the only nation that keeps Russia and China in check. Canada has existed peacefully because they are US allies and neigbors. Do you think the Russians would think twice about invading or at least more aggessively confronting North American nations if Canada was the biggest country in the hemisphere? Laughable. We see what they have done in latin America. It is much easier for you to spread your tax dollars around for entitlements when the US is covering your ass geopolitically, and then of course turn around and question the method in which you receive protection.The pure, hard economic reality is that Canada is essentially dependent on the US for economic viability. Just look at their population distribution, they are almost entirely, comically, huddled along the US border. That is no coincidence. They are reliant on us, not vice-versa.The thing is, the US is the global leader of the free world, will be for some time. Canadians struggle to maintain an identity in the shadow of the most influential nation of the 20th and 21st century, so they create these defense mechanisms to mitigate the fact that they are seen as “that other country in North America”. Honesty, Mexico has a stronger national identity in NA than Canada.Canadians tend to focus on what their country does for them, “I get free heath care”. “I will let government officials decide what is and is not acceptible speech”. Americans are more about what our nation has accomplished and what we can do for ourselves, which takes much more courage. We look outward, Canadians look inward. This is why America walked on the moon, why Silicon Valley is in California, and why more (many, many more) people from abroad want to come here than there (or anywhere…anywhere). I have also see several Canadians assert such nonsense as “The USA is the most hated country in the world!” I am not sure how this can be when more people want to come here just for an oppotunity to live more than any other nation on earth, when our fast-food, movies, TV, and cuture are consistently embraced and emulated worldwide, and we are the most embraced and copied culture on the planet. I think you are confusing America being “hated” with the attention we get, perhaps compounded by the fact that you are, globally, ignored as a nation.Of course, these conversations are occurring via computers, cell phones, tablets, social media, and the internet… all American developments. We couldn’t have this conversation at all but for the good ol’ US of A.I certainly don’t see Canada being part of the USA, but no one wants that, certainly not Americans. The simple fact is that if the US had not existed, Canada would not exist in it’s same viable form today. Had Canada never exsted, the USA would still be fine. Canada is Canada because they live next to the US, whether they accept that or not. We are who we are because we created our own destiny on this continent.Anyways, enjoy all of the ill-informed and angry comments from “America’s Hat”, most of which are transparent and rather sad attempts by Canadians to assert their own identity and elevate their nation to the level of America, which it is simply not.In a thousand years, will they be disuccing the first empire to exist based on ideals, laws and individual liberty and not self-ascribed human authority? The first to master flight, the first to put man on another planetary body, the first to harness the atom, the first to truly harness electricity? Creator of the digital age, computers, and the internet?Or will they be talking about Canada’s Universal Health care, LOL?Canada is the idealistic but naive teenager that rallies against his parents out of a sense of establishing his own identity… while still living in their house, eating their food, and borrowing dad’s car to drive to Tim Horton’s.Look, in the end we are allies an neighbors, but Canadians should not make the mistake of thinking they are in any position to lecture us or suggest that we in any way care what they think and whether they want to be part of the US or not. Americans know who we are, and we are confident in our shoes. Canadian citizens should endeavor to be the same and work to move away from defining their identity based on a compare/contrast with the USA to an extent that belies a rather thinly veiled inferiority complex.Oh, one more thing, and this speakes volumes…2016 Canadian immigrants in the USA: 783,000 Canadian Immigrants in the United States2016 American immigrnats in Canada: 253,715 Immigration to Canada - WikipediaOur relative populations make these figures even more striking. We have 8.3 x your population, yet nearly 3 times more Canadians want to live here than Americans want to live there.It’s like actual human behavior completely flies in the face of obsessive Canadian social media comments… imagine that.

Never allow your gas tank to fall below half full.Keep your car well maintained and safe.Keep emergency cash and credit/debit cards ready.Know and practice your escape route.Keep emergency supplies (food, water, extra clothes and shoes, medicine, medical kit), car maintenance tools (flares, pop up reflective cones) in your car.Talk to your family about how you will flee (establish a code word like “peanut butter” to let everyone know it is time to flee without having to explain or argue).Keep extra copies of identification papers ready to go (driver’s licence, birth and marriage certificates, insurance papers etc.) in case your home is destroyed.Here are further tips.PoetslifeChurch Tabletop Exercise Template - Category 4 HurricaneHow to Handle a Huge Hurricane7.05 Hurricane: TACDA ACADEMY – CIVIL DEFENSE BASICSA hurricane is a type of tropical cyclone, the generic term for a low pressure system that generally forms in the tropics. A typical cyclone is accompanied by thunderstorms, and in the Northern Hemisphere, a counterclockwise circulation of winds near the earth’s surface.All Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastal areas are subject to hurricanes or tropical storms. Parts of the Southwest United States and the Pacific Coast experience heavy rains and floods each year from hurricanes spawned off Mexico. The Atlantic hurricane season lasts from June to November, with the peak season from mid-August to late October.Hurricanes can cause catastrophic damage to coastlines and several hundred miles inland. Winds can exceed 155 miles per hour. Hurricanes and tropical storms can also spawn tornadoes and micro bursts, create storm surges along the coast, and cause extensive damage from heavy rainfall.Hurricanes are classified into five categories based on their wind speed, central pressure, and damage potential. Category Three and higher hurricanes are considered major hurricanes, though Categories One and Two are still extremely dangerous and warrant your full attention.Saffir-Simpson Hurricane ScaleThe Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is a scale classifying most Western Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the levels of "tropical depression" and "tropical storm" and thereby become hurricanes; the "categories" it divides hurricanes into are distinguished by the intensities of their respective sustained winds. The classifications are intended primarily for use in gauging the likelydamage and flooding a hurricane will cause upon landfall. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is used only to describe hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean and northern Pacific Ocean east of the International Date Line. Other areas label their tropical cyclones as "cyclones" and "typhoons", and use their own classification schemes.The scale was developed in 1969 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and Bob Simpson, at that time the director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC - National Hurricane Center). The initial scalewas developed by Saffir while on commission from the United Nations to study low-cost housing in hurricane-prone areas. While performing the study, Saffir realized there was no simple scale for describing the likely effects of a hurricane. Knowing the utility of the Richter magnitude scale in describing earthquakes, he devised a scale based on wind speed that showed expected damage to structures. Saffir gave the scale to the NHC, and Simpson added in the effects of storm surge and flooding.The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is a 1-5 rating based on the hurricane's present intensity. This is used to give an estimate of the potential property damage and flooding expected along the coast from a hurricane landfall. Wind speed is the determining factor in the scale, as storm surge values are highly dependent on the slope of the continental shelf and the shape of the coastline, in the landfall region.The scale does not take into account rainfall or location, which means a Category 2 hurricane that hits a major city will likely do far more damage than a Category 5 hurricane that hits a rural area.Only 3 Category Five Hurricanes have made landfall in the United States since records began:The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 struck the Florida Keys with a minimum pressure of 892 mb--the lowest pressure ever observed in the United States.Hurricane Camille (1969) struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast causing a 25-foot storm surge, which inundated Pass Christian.Hurricane Andrew (1992) made landfall over southern Miami-Dade County, Florida causing26.5 billion dollars in losses--the costliest hurricane on record.TACDA ACADEMY – CIVIL DEFENSE BASICSSaffir-Simpson Hurricane ScaleScale #(Category)SustainedWinds (MPH)DamageStorm Surge(above normal)174-95Minimal: Damage primarily to unanchored mobile homes, shrubbery, and trees. Some damage to poorly constructed signs. Some coastal road flooding and minor pier damage. 4-5 ft.296-110Moderate: Some roofing material, door, and window damage of buildings. Considerable damage to shrubbery and trees. Considerable damage to mobile homes, poorly constructed signs, and piers. Coastal and low-lying escape routes flood 2-4 hours before arrival of the hurricane center. 6-8 ft.3111-130Extensive: Structural damage to small residences and utility buildings. Damage to shrubbery and large trees blown down. Mobile homes and poorly constructed signs are destroyed. Low-lying escape routes are cut by rising water 3-5 hours before arrival of the center of the hurricane. Flooding near coast destroys smaller structures. Larger structures damaged floating debris. 9-12 ft.4131-155Severe: More roof structure failures on small residences. Shrubs, trees, and all signs are blown down. Complete destruction of mobile homes. Major damage to lower floors of structures near the shore. Terrain lower than 10 ft above sea level may be flooded requiring massive evacuation of residential areas as far inland as 6 miles (10 km). 13-18 ft.5More than 155Extreme: Complete roof failure on many residences and industrial buildings. Small utility buildings blown over or away. All shrubs, trees, and signs blown down. Complete destruction of mobile homes. Major damage to lower floors of all structures located less than 15 ft above sea level and within 500 yards of the shoreline. Massive evacuation of residential areas within 5-10 miles (8-16 km) of shoreline may be required. 18 ft. & greaterTACDA ACADEMY – CIVIL DEFENSE BASICSBefore a HurricaneTo prepare for a hurricane, you should take the following measures:Make plans to secure your property. Permanent storm shutters offer the best protection for windows. A second option is to board up windows with 5/8” marine plywood, cut to fit and ready to install. Tape does not prevent windows from breaking.Install straps or additional clips to securely fasten your roof to the frame structure. This will reduce roof damage.Be sure trees and shrubs around your home are well trimmed.Clear loose and clogged rain gutters and downspouts.Determine how and where to secure your boat.Consider building a safe room.During a HurricaneIf a hurricane is likely in your area, you should:Listen to the radio or TV for information.Secure your home, close storm shutters, and secure outdoor objects or bring them indoors.Turn off utilities if instructed to do so. Otherwise, turn the refrigerator thermostat to its coldest setting and keep its doors closed.Turn off propane tanks. Avoid using the phone, except for serious emergencies.Moor your boat if time permits.Ensure a supply of water for sanitary purposes such as cleaning and flushing toilets. Fill the bathtub and other large containers with water.You should evacuate under the following conditions:If you are directed by local authorities to do so. Be sure to follow their instructions.If you live in a mobile home or temporary structure—such shelters are particularly hazardous during hurricanes no matter how well fastened to the ground.If you live in a high-rise building—hurricane winds are stronger at higher elevations.If you live on the coast, on a floodplain, near a river, or on an inland waterway.If you feel you are in danger.If you are unable to evacuate, go to your safe room. If you do not have one, follow these guidelines:Stay indoors during the hurricane and away from windows and glass doors.Close all interior doors—secure and brace external doors.Keep curtains and blinds closed. Do not be fooled if there is a lull; it could be the eye of the storm - winds will pick up again.Take refuge in a small interior room, closet, or hallway on the lowest level.Lie on the floor under a table or another sturdy object.After a Hurricane:Stay away from damaged areas. Stay away unless your assistance has been specifically requested by police, fire, or relief organizations. Return home only when authorities say it is safe.Listen to a battery-operated radio or television. Listen for the latest emergency information.TACDA ACADEMY – CIVIL DEFENSE BASICSUse the telephone only for emergency calls.Help injured or trapped persons. Remember to help your neighbors who may require special assistance such as infants, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Give first aid where appropriate. Do not move seriously injured persons unless they are in immediate danger of further injury. Call for help.Check for gas leaks. If you smell gas or hear blowing or hissing noise, open a window and quickly leave the building. Turn off the gas at the outside main valve if you can and call the gas company from a neighbor's home. If you turn off the gas for any reason, it must be turned back on by a professional.Look for electrical system damage. If you see sparks or broken or frayed wires, or if you smell hot insulation, turn off the electricity at the main fuse box or circuit breaker. If you have to step in water to get to the fuse box or circuit breaker, call an electrician first for advice.After returning home:The following are guidelines for the period following a flood:Listen for news reports to learn whether the community’s water supply is safe to drink.Avoid floodwaters; water may be contaminated by oil, gasoline, or raw sewage.Water may also be electrically charged from underground or downed power lines.Avoid moving water.Be aware of areas where floodwaters have receded. Roads may have weakened and could collapse under the weight of a car.Stay away from downed power lines, and report them to the power company.Return home only when authorities indicate it is safe.Stay out of any building if it is surrounded by floodwaters.Use extreme caution when entering buildings; there may be hidden damage, particularly in foundations.Service damaged septic tanks, cesspools, pits, and leaching systems as soon as possible.Damaged sewage systems are serious health hazards.Clean and disinfect everything that got wet. Mud left from floodwater can contain sewage and chemicals.