Table 4.

Tenant preparedness: readying for future extreme weather events

Lessons Learned and Recommendations	Exemplary quotes
Lessons learned in evacuation, long-term trauma, and preparedness	“This time I would go. I wouldn’t stay like I did before.”
	“If you have health issues or your children [do], [you should] go, because one thing is for sure. If they can’t get in to help you, you can’t get out.”
	“I already know when [another storm] comes and I panic, I ain’t gonna know what to do.”
	“I’m so packed right now, God forbid they say a storm, I’m ready. Loaded down, locked, everything.”
	“So I think every one of us now [is ready to leave] I have a kit in my house, a big bin, like about this big.”
Need for preparedness training and resources	“[We need something that’s] not a superficial training. A real training... We’re visual, human beings. It would pay for them to show really realistic pictures or videos of disasters.”
	“There is a program we’re trying to get out here called Amateur Radio through the Explorers. We’ll teach the children how to build that radio from the bottom up and they’ll teach the older ones…so if this ever happened again…it will always be a form of communication when everything goes down.”
	“We need tenant emergency support teams. I’m talking about 30 or 40 year olds that can sustain this physically. A group to say, listen, we want you to come in. We’re gonna teach you how to do this, and when the call comes in we expect you to help, serve and keep our people safe.”