Whether you live on the coast fulltime, own a vacation home or are considering a move to the coast, you know that there is an annual risk from hurricanes for homeowners, particularly along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.


Our guest today is George Siegal, a filmmaker and podcaster, who directed the documentary "The Last House Standing (https://www.thelasthousestanding.org/trailer#:~:text=The%20Last%20House%20Standing%20is%20a%20documentary%20film,on%20various%20public%20television%20stations%20throughout%20the%20year.)." He says knowledge is power when it comes to protecting your home. Listen to understand the questions you need to ask when talking to your realtor or contractor about preparing your house.


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About the Across the Sky podcast


The weekly weather podcast is hosted on a rotation by the Lee Weather team:


Matt Holiner (https://www.nwitimes.com/users/profile/matt%20holiner/) of Lee Enterprises' Midwest group in Chicago, Kirsten Lang (https://tulsaworld.com/users/profile/kirsten%20lang/) of the Tulsa World in Oklahoma, Joe Martucci (https://pressofatlanticcity.com/users/profile/jmartucci-pressofac/) of the Press of Atlantic City, N.J., and Sean Sublette (https://richmond.com/users/profile/sean%20sublette/?_gl=1*1mf5ps0*_ga*MTc1OTczNTI0NS4xNjQ3OTY3NDM4*_ga_F8FFLLVDEZ*MTY1MDU1MTI0NS4xOS4xLjE2NTA1NTEyNTQuNTE.) of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia.


Episode transcript


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Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the Across the Sky podcast brought to you by Lee Enterprises. I’m meteorologist Joe Martucci. I am here with meteorologist Sean Sublette, meteorologist Matt Holiner. Kirsten Lang is not here today as we talk about hurricane preparedness in your house, we are going to use the heat of hurricane season really starts to ramp up in August, the peak of about ten stands and interest will drop through mid-October.


So I think we're in a second quarter of hurricane season here. But as we get into the peak, we have George Siegal here to talk to us about it. He does a lot of work in home preparedness year. We think it's very valuable as we go into the season, especially for those of you who are living on the East Coast or on the Gulf Coast.


I have a second house there. So let's hop on into it and we'll talk to George Siegal on the Across the Sky podcast. Okay. We are here with George Siegal . George is currently in the Tampa area in Florida. He is a filmmaker, a podcaster and a former local news reporter. And Weather Castor will talk about that as well.


But we really have him on today to talk about hurricane preparedness in relation to owning a home. You know, as we get into August and September and October, especially if you live in Florida or if you live on the coast, you're thinking about hurricane season, what you need to do to prepare yourself now and what you need to do when we do get into those hurricane and tropical storm watches and warnings.


George also directed the documentary The Last House Standing has a podcast as well. So we welcome John George to our Across the Sky podcast. Thanks so much for joining us here today to talk about hurricane.


Hey, thank you for having me on. I appreciate it.


Yeah, you're very welcome. So, you know, first I want to talk a little bit about your weather career here. First, what got you interested in weather and where across the country have you been forecasting a lot?


You know, probably easier to tell you where I haven't been. You know, it just it was a fluke how I ended up doing it. I used to I grew up watching Pat Sajak when he was a weatherman in Southern California, and I went to audition for a job in Bakersfield for a sports job. And the guy said, Oh, can you do weather?


We have an opening for a weather guy. I said, Sure, I can do weather. And I didn't know anything about weather, but I was good at talking. And so I got the job and, you know, I did it for the next 14 years. Couldn't get away from that job. You know, I never I wasn't a meteorologist. I learned how to do, you know, read the maps and do forecasting.


I was doing it more for entertainment value. But it was it was a lot of fun. You got to meet a lot of interesting people. I've worked with some really talented people at different stations around the country. I worked from San Francisco to Seattle. I started in Bakersfield, went to Fresno, Detroit and San Antonio. So I got to live some fun places.


And it was it was a good experience.


So, you know, you said, you know, entertainment of, you know, couple of seconds to go there. But now you're really working on, you know, more serious...