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Residents stock up for storm at SW Fla. home improvement stores
If there’s one lesson Southwest Floridians have learned from the active hurricane seasons of the past, it’s to be prepared. It showed today at home improvement retailers such as Lowe’s and Home Depot where crowds were active but orderly as people prepared for tropical storm Fay which is expected to make landfall, possibly with hurricane-strength winds, in the vicinity of Southwest Florida Tuesday morning. “There’s not as much panic as there was then with Charley,” Steve Fogg, assistant store manager at the Home Depot on Forum Boulevard in Fort Myers said. “I think people have learned their lesson to prepare ahead, before hurricane season starts.” Fogg said batteries, flashlights, water, propane tanks and generators were in high demand today and his store was prepared. According to Fogg, he and other managers monitor the weather and are in communication with the store’s corporate headquarters in Atlanta. As soon as a region is put into the cone of uncertainty, corporate dispatches trucks with extra supplies to those stores in order to keep up with demand. “We just got a truck of water two hours ago and AmeriGas has been here three times today exchanging propane tanks,” Fogg said. “We’ve pretty much taken care of everything.” This afternoon, Fogg said his store was running low on generators, but he was expecting another shipment shortly. Fogg, formerly a firefighter, said he and his employees encourage anyone purchasing a generator to also buy a carbon-monoxide detector. The detectors also are helpful for people who might be grilling on back porches or in garages during or after the storm. Down the street at Lowe’s, customers emerged with sheets of plywood, gas canisters and pallets of water. Operations there seemed to be running just as smoothly. “Supplies are good, we’re not really having any issues,” operations manager Anthony Lennox said. “It certainly hasn’t been as crazy as it was a few years ago.” Lowe’s and Home Depot will be open normal hours today and tomorrow, weather permitting. http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080818/ WEATHER01/80818112/1075 |
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