{"id":264833,"date":"2026-05-09T14:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264833\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:45:08","slug":"fort-myers-hurricane-preparedness-expo-helps-residents-plan-for-storm-season-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264833\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers Hurricane Preparedness Expo helps residents plan for storm season | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The City of Fort Myers is hosting its annual Hurricane Preparedness Expo, offering residents a chance to ask questions, make a plan and prepare before the next storm.<\/p>\n

The expo runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. inside the Caloosa Sound Convention Center in downtown Fort Myers, next to the Luminary Hotel. The event is free and family-friendly, featuring food trucks, raffle prizes and city vehicles for families to check out.<\/p>\n

The city’s emergency management team will be on-site, along with various vendors, preparedness resources and the WINK Weather Authority team. Attendees can get tips on what to do before a storm, learn how to stay informed during an emergency and ask questions directly to people who handle hurricane planning.<\/p>\n

RELATED:\u00a0Hurricane season starts in 48 days, Weather Authority helps SWFL prepare<\/a><\/p>\n

The city is encouraging people to download the Fort Myers EM mobile app to receive emergency information when it matters most.<\/p>\n

One attendee shared their experience with past storms.<\/p>\n

“I want to look into the preparedness for a hurricane, and we’ve been through four or five so far; we survived,” they said. “Everything was fine, but it was scary.”<\/p>\n

The city wants people to come with questions and leave with a plan. Whether this is someone’s first hurricane season or not, the message from events like this is clear: don’t wait for a warning cone to start preparing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The City of Fort Myers is hosting its annual Hurricane Preparedness Expo, offering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114127,209,211,210,897,56903],"class_list":["post-264833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-caloosa-sound-convention-center","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-fort-myers","tag-wink-weather-authority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}