Hurricane Season starts again June 1, but business owners and homeowners in Southwest Florida are still rebuilding after the catastrophic Hurricane Ian took aim at their area of the state last September and many businesses are still shuttered. While we hope of course that South Florida and our state will […]
Tag: Disaster Preparedness
Haven’t updated your business hurricane plan? Now’s the time
Last year, the Category 5 Hurricane Michael caused $18.4 billion in estimated losses in Florida and severe devastation for thousands of small businesses. Listen to Panhandle business owner Ben Kaempfer, general manager of Cottondale-based Register’s Meat Company: “We lost $35,000 worth of inventory because we weren’t able to refrigerate it. Our employees […]