It's hard to feel comfortable leaving your home in any emergency situation, but planning for it can make it a bit easier.

It's hard to feel comfortable leaving your home in any emergency situation, but planning for it can make it a bit easier.

Improvements you can make around your home that not only secure it during a storm, but can also cut the cost of your homeowners insurance in half.

When the worst happens, you might find comfort in knowing Central Florida is home to some great first responders, but what if they can't get to you in a serious storm?

Sumter County residents have several resources available to them to help prepare ahead of a storm.

Flagler County residents have several resources available to them while preparing for a storm.

Hurricane Delta slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula early Wednesday as a Category 2 storm, and it now poses a threat to the U.S. So, why do we have to deal with hurricanes at all? Here’s why not, according to Landsea: “The main difficulty with using explosives to modify hurricanes is the amount of energy required. Finally, it’s pretty impractical to think that we could attack weak tropical waves or depressions before they have a chance to grow into hurricanes. So if your friend asks next week, “Why don’t we just nuke these things?,” now you know the answer.

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. Lake County residents have all the resources they need to prepare for hurricane season available to them. The Lake County Emergency Operations Center will issue evacuation orders 36 hours before a storm is forecast to strike, according to officials. Regardless of where you end up during the storm, you'll need certain supplies. Those locations are: Astatula Elementary, Leesburg Elementary, Lost Lake Elementary, Mascotte Elementary, Round Lake Elementary, Spring Creek Elementary, Treadway Elementary, Umatilla Elementary and The Villages Elementary. In order to ensure a spot at a special needs shelter, you'll need to click here to fill out a registration form.

Five tips to prepare for flooding, ahead of hurricane season.

With storm season upon us, you'll want to take time to check the safety and security of your home before a storm is in the forecast, and a significant part of that is making sure your windows can withstand hurricane-force winds. Tat Granata, from Florida Home Improvement Associates, said after Hurricane Matthew struck in 2016 and Hurricane Irma the year after that, homeowners are thinking differently about how they prepare. He said not all hurricane windows are created equal and homeowners should pay special attention to windows that are near a corner. To see more options when it comes to protecting your home or how you can make an appointment, visit FHAProducts. For more tips on preparing yourself, your home and your family for hurricane season, go to ClickOrlando.com/Hurricane.

ORLANDO, Fla. The season for severe weather is here, so lets get prepared by brushing up on our weather lingo. Does one indicate a more severe weather pattern than the other? Warning: issued when a hazardous weather or hydrologic event is occurring, is imminent, or has a very high probability of occurring. Lets break down some of the watches and warnings Floridians tend to see. Both watches and warnings of any kind are used to make people aware, not alarmed.

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News 6 Chief Meteorologist Tom Sorrells gives a tour of what you can find on ClickOrlando.com's Hurricane page.