it is June first and you know what that
means hurricane season is officially
here with memories of back-to-back
hurricane seasons the weather Authority
and Ace Hardware team have to make sure
you and your family are ready we've
developed a hurricane checklist that
includes must-have items and some of the
things on the list are things you may
not have thought of news for Jax
meteorologist Mark Collins is live at
the Ace Hardware store in Jacksonville
Beach with a look at items that were
literally flying off shelves as Emma
approached last year mark that's right
Jen you know there were a lot of hot
selling items here and I came in to the
Jacksonville Beach local a store to find
out what were the big sellers and Kyle
Turner told me there were many things
that you wouldn't necessarily think to
put in your kit but there are some very
good suggestions let's take a look that
one surprised everybody I think you know
we all kind of expected the gas cans and
the batteries and the flashlights but
never this makes a lot of sense because
people were using these putting them in
their tub and filling up the tub with
water that way they had fresh water
supplies either for drinking or cooking
and of course bathing but the gas cans
these were another item that were just
flying off the shelves right they were
those were a huge seller you know people
were getting ready you know for their
generators for the small engines over
there yeah that kind of stuff and so
you've got a lot of these on supplies
and what's important about having these
gas cans is to fill them up with gas but
especially if the gas has been are
sitting for a year or two or you haven't
just used it it can get stale sure a lot
of people you know came in and bought
generators or train stalls for the first
time maybe during the storm last year
and if they've been sitting there for 12
months and haven't been started or
turned on you're definitely gonna want
to get rid of the gas that's sitting at
them and replaced it with something
fresh and some stabilizer something you
don't think about if you haven't started
up your chainsaw or some of your power
tools that they might not be working so
now it's probably a good time also to
check them out make sure they operate
absolutely bring them in for a tune-up
let us take a look at them
now if someone's coming in here for a
chainsaw is there any particular style
of saule do you have ones that are
larger ones that are smaller which is a
good one for just general use - cutting
up branches sure we have everything from
you know homeowner to commercial it
really just depends on the type of job
that you're doing okay we've got
something for everybody and they
certainly do here you know with my
experience with Matthew I went through
so much chain oil on those saws and so
now is a great time to prepare in
advance so we're partnering with all the
local a stores there's over two dozen
here in the area and you can pick up
everything you need for your build a kit
that fits and we will be live at some of
the stores during the area over the next
couple of weeks and hopefully you can
come out here and meet you the best
thing is that you could save almost 30%
this week if you come out to the store
because at one you get a 20% discount on
some of your emergency preparedness kit
items here at Ace and also it is tax
free savings week so that's another
seven percent off those items so come on
out to your a store and get that kit
that fits hopefully won't have to use it
but certainly if you've got extra
batteries lying around the house that's
no big deal
alright live from Jacksonville Beach I'm
meteorologist mark Collins back to you
Bruce again yeah it's like insurance you
know you get it and you hope you don't
have to use it all month long the
weather authority meteorologist will be
a different Ace Hardware locations in
your neighborhood across Northeast
Florida and starting Saturday June 9th
what can you do yeah you can meet one of
our meteorologists come out say hi ask
them your hurricane preparing may be
that you might have so check out our
storm trap truck we have posted when and
where they will be on news 4 Jax comm
just click on the build a kit that fits
link and I'll take you right to the
information and by the way let's rien
ffice eyes you could save 20% on a lot
of the items on that builder kit that
fits list and a 7% additional savings
because of the sales tax holiday in
effect from today through June 7