hurricane season officially begins
tomorrow believe it or not it's already
here and with fresh memories of course
of hurricane her from last year news for
Jax is teaming up with your local
neighborhood ace hardware store to make
sure that you and your family are ready
prepared so with the help of Ace
Hardware stores we developed a hurricane
checklist of must-have supplies now this
is no ordinary list folks it includes
items people often don't realize they
need until they're literally scrambling
to prepare for a storm or maybe they're
trying to clean up after a storm joining
me now is Steve Proctor from hey from
Hagen Ace Hardware at News 4 Jax vice
president and general manager Bob Ellis
good morning to both of you thank you
for being here
Proctor Ace Hardware Proctor Ace
Hardware excuse me buckaroos hardware
thank you for coming in and I think the
you have brought just this this bevy of
important supplies that people need to
know that they have but I think what's
so interesting about this list that
we've put together because you're an
expert on this because you were there as
people were rushing to the store is
there's things on here that people don't
realize like tub Stoppers of all things
yes Jennifer when when when a storm
comes almost any kind of disaster you
just don't think about things very well
and so you're scrambling and we try as
hard as we can to prepare because we
have the lists of items that we've sold
in the past and so we put together
things that we can discount for you now
so you can have them available that may
not be available when you get close to
the storm so it show us a little bit
what you have here if you will so we
talked about the tub Stoppers I mean
people know about the need for
flashlights and batteries and water as
an example but even just preparing ahead
of time and making sure you have like
the tie-down straps that you might need
if you have to put a tarp over your roof
well that's true and what we've done is
we've categorized items in preparing for
the storm and then what to do after the
storm so then preparing the storm you're
interested in getting tie-downs anchors
for for your window protection straps of
sandbags things that would protect your
home and then after the storm you want
to have things already available that or
you won't be able to buy because there's
going to be in short supply flashlights
water
LP gas all things like that and you you
really need to be prepared to live for a
week without having power and sometimes
people lose it for even that long I want
to talk to you about how our viewers can
save some money in just a moment but if
I could bring Bob Ellis into this
conversation because this partnership
Bob is very unique because you know we
talk all the time about an importance
that we have in making commitment to our
viewers not just during a hurricane and
giving them the information that they
need to keep them safe
but also helping them get ready because
we know ourselves we're at work but we
still have to remember to get our
families ready before a storm yeah you
know when when we thought about
hurricane season this year we knew
perhaps this year more than any other
people will take it very seriously as
they always should but the last two
years are certainly good indications of
why they should and so we wanted to work
with a local business to try to
encourage people to do it now as Steve
said if you wait until the five days
before the storm we do the stories you
do the stories the shelves are empty so
in the month of June which is when
hurricane season is we know starts we
want people to go do this now we want
people to make sure that they get the
things they need when they're available
when they're available when they're in
the stores so they are ready before the
storm after the storm is deep-set and so
the folks at a's with 26 local locations
always one in your neighborhood right
around the corner local businesses local
ownership we went to them and said hey
when we work together and they have gone
above and beyond and in fact you're good
at all that Steve talked about this and
they're gonna offer people a significant
savings in the month of June to go and
get this stuff now and what's fantastic
is of course it starts tomorrow June 1st
first day of hurricane season but
there's this and we'll show it to you in
just a minute
there's a 20% off that you can save for
the entire month of June starting
tomorrow and let me pull you into this
Steve - because if you if you act now in
the next week you can also save some
additional money because of a sales tax
basic holiday that's right so the state
of Florida has enacted a seven-day sales
tax holiday on hurricane supplies and we
have the list in the store there's
actually a printout it tells you what
the items are here most of the items
that are on that list are also on our
list so you cannot not only save the 20%
off on these items but you can also save
7% sales tax on anything up
including generators so if you want to
buy if you want to be prepared the best
time to do it is right now and take
advantage of the savings to save
yourself also the panic and the chaos of
trying to go from store to store to
store because places have sold out
before a storm comes yeah when the storm
comes you're just gonna struggle to try
to get what you want generators we could
have sold we had two containers of
generators that came in wasn't enough we
could have sold twice as many but the
risk is high so you certainly don't want
to have that leftover and so everybody
is trying to manage their inventory then
and satisfy the customers so it's really
challenging close to the storm it's
better if you're prepared ahead of time
thank you for being here I appreciate it
and we're really excited about the
partnership Bob thank you for being here
as well you know tomorrow on the morning
show the weather authority of course is
working to make sure that you are ready
as the hurricane season officially
starts so all morning long we're gonna
show you the steps that you need to be
taking now before a storm strikes ed you
don't find yourself as we just discussed
scrambling to prepare so at 5:00 a.m.
Richard Nunn will show you how to safely
use a generator folks I can't tell you
how often we are reporting some tragedy
associated with a generator that's not
used correctly when a hurricane has
started as hit our area and then at six
o'clock he's gonna walk you through how
to select the right generator for you
and your family and then beginning at 7
a.m. Marc Collins will join you live
from a local Ace Hardware store armed
with we were just talking about this
build a kit that fits list because we
know that you probably have some of the
things on this list we want to make sure
you have everything that you need so
join us tomorrow starting from 4:30
until 10:00 a.m.