• Get to safety
• Photograph or video your surroundings if it is safe to do so
• Have a passenger photograph or video your evacuation
• Notify your insurer
• Report the (potential) loss
• And get a copy of your policy and coverages
• o Get safe housing
• Rent fast for shorter or monthly terms
• Stay flexible if you can
• Document everything you spend in recovery
• Keep receipts, invoices, leases
• Survey your loss (when permitted)
• Photograph / video your loss
• Take pictures of debris, close-up, all around
• Structures
• Contents (jewelry, keepsakes, anything discernable)
• Appliances
• Remnants for salvage
• Damaged trees
• Vehicles
• Inventory your loss
• In your mind’s eye, go “room to room” and write out what you “see”