2012 HURRICANE GUIDE
If you have to evacuate, you'll want to take necessary and hard-to-replace documents. Here's a list of what should be in a waterproof, lockable container you can easily grab.
• Checkbook, savings account passbook
• Safe deposit box key
• Birth, death and marriage certificates, divorce decree
• Will and power of attorney
• Social Security card and records
• Military records
• Medical records (including living will, health care surrogacy, etc.)
• Insurance policies
• Health insurance cards
• Retirement account records
• Recent pay stubs, in case you have to document employment to collect benefits
• Tax returns
• Car titles and registrations
• Mortgage deeds or rental agreements
• Warranties and receipts
• Credit cards
• Passports, green cards
• Food stamp, WIC or other benefit cards and paperwork
• List of important phone numbers (relatives, bank and insurance company)
• Disc or flash drive on which you back up computer files just before you shut down the computer and evacuate
• Home inventory (on paper, disc, flash drive or video; you should keep another copy in a safe place, maybe at work or at the home of a relative out of state)
• A few family photographs or other memorabilia
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