The T-Minus Storm Countdown Card for Pets: Whose Clock It Runs On

Count backward from the moment tropical-storm-force winds reach you, not from landfall. No national agency publishes a household countdown, so the hours on this card come from named counties, parishes and agencies, and the blanks are for your own county’s numbers and your own measured loading time.

This card goes on the door of the closet where the carriers live. It is not the hurricane guide. Our hurricane pet preparedness playbook holds the watch-to-warning strategy, the per-pet supply math and the shelter question. This page is the execution card that hangs next to it.

T-0 is not landfall

Every hour on this card counts backward from the onset of tropical-storm-force winds where you are. Not landfall, and not hurricane-force winds.

That reference point comes from the National Hurricane Center’s hurricane-hazards page, which says emergency managers plan on having “their evacuations complete and their personnel sheltered before the onset of tropical storm-force winds, not hurricane-force winds”. Counting from landfall means planning to leave during hours the people who run the roads have planned to be finished.

The National Weather Service uses the same threshold:

• A Hurricane Watch is issued 48 hours before anticipated tropical storm-force winds.
• A Hurricane Warning is issued 36 hours in advance of them.
• Tropical Storm Watch and Warning use the same two windows for their own conditions.
• Storm Surge Watch and Warning are described as generally within 48 and 36 hours.
• An Extreme Wind Warning means extreme sustained winds of a major hurricane, 115 mph or greater, expected to begin within an hour. That is not a planning product. It means take cover.

An order to leave comes from your county, on its own schedule, and can arrive before either alert. Your storm’s arrival time for tropical-storm-force winds comes from the National Hurricane Center’s advisories for the active system. It moves, so check it every advisory cycle.

There is no national countdown

As of August 5, 2026, Ready.gov’s hurricanes page (last updated 07/09/2026) is organized as Before, During and After with no hour markers. Ready.gov’s pets page (last updated 03/20/2026) gives actions and no hours. The National Weather Service’s definitions page gives the two lead times above and no household schedule.

The hour numbers that exist are published by states and counties, and they differ. Evacuation timing is a road-capacity problem and road capacity is local: a parish with one causeway and a parish with four interstates cannot run the same clock. A printed countdown is only as good as the county figures written on it.

The card has three kinds of rows: rows sourced to a named agency, band edges we chose (T-72, T-24, T-12 and T-6, labeled as ours so you overwrite them), and blanks you fill in from the four calls after the table.

The card

Print this. The right column is the one you write in.

If a row’s middle column names a group you belong to, that row is your departure, whatever the action column says. The action column describes a household that has not yet been ordered out.

Hours before onset of tropical-storm-force winds	Who publishes an hour here	Pet action at this rung	Your number
T-96 and earlier	No federal household figure. Mississippi State University Extension Publication 2507 (POD-01-26) sets 96 hours for livestock, counted from predicted landfall, not from wind onset.	Large animals are already moving if you have them. For household pets: confirm prescription supply, confirm your county’s pet-shelter rules for your species, confirm the destination that agreed to take you. Freeze gel packs if a cold-chain medication is in the kit. Bring outdoor and free-roaming animals in as soon as a storm is in the forecast cone; Ready.gov gives no hour, saying only to do it at the first sign or warning.	____
T-72 to T-50 (T-72 is our banding; T-50 is published)	Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana publishes Phase 1 of the state three-phase system beginning 50 hours before tropical storm winds are anticipated to strike the Louisiana coast, a regional reference point, not wind onset at your address. Phase 1 is directed at offshore workers, people on coastal islands, people in low-lying areas, the special medical needs population, and people aboard boats.	The last window in which businesses are reliably open and phones are answered: vet, pharmacy, boarding, hotel, county emergency management. Carriers come out of storage and stay out. If Phase 1 names your group, this row is your departure.	____
T-48	NWS: Hurricane Watch issued 48 hours before anticipated tropical storm-force winds. Monroe County, Florida, under Comprehensive Plan Policy 216.1.8, for a pending major hurricane (category 3-5): mandatory evacuation of non-residents, visitors, RVs, travel trailers, live-aboards and military personnel initiated approximately 48 hours in advance of tropical storm winds, per a 2012 county resolution (see the Monroe note below).	Bring every outdoor and free-roaming animal inside now and keep them in. Confine cats to one closed room. Documents into the waterproof pouch. Non-perishable kit staged by the door. If you are a visitor, an RV or travel trailer occupant, a live-aboard or military personnel in the Keys, this row is your departure.	____
T-40	Plaquemines Parish: Phase 2 begins 40 hours before tropical storm winds are anticipated to strike the Louisiana coast. It covers all people at risk, including those outside levee protection, in a manufactured home, RV or similar, and in low-lying or flood-prone areas.	Crates, bowls, litter, sealed water and towels go into the vehicle. No animals, no refrigerated medication, no food you care about. If Phase 2 names your group, this row is your departure and the pre-load happens on the way out the door.	____
T-36	NWS: Hurricane Warning issued 36 hours in advance of tropical storm-force winds. Monroe County, Florida, under Policy 216.1.8, for a pending major hurricane (category 3-5): mandatory evacuation of mobile home residents, special needs residents, and hospital and nursing home patients initiated approximately 36 hours in advance, per the same 2012 resolution.	Preparations should be finished, not starting. Final head count of animals and their locations. Fuel. Cash. Phone and battery bank charged. If you are a mobile home or special needs resident in the Keys, this row is your departure.	____
T-30	Plaquemines Parish: Phase 3 begins 30 hours out on the same Louisiana coast reference point, and contraflow runs in this phase. Monroe County, Florida, under Policy 216.1.8, for a pending major hurricane (category 3-5): mandatory phased evacuation of permanent residents by evacuation zone initiated approximately 30 hours in advance, per the same 2012 resolution.	If your zone has been called, this is departure, not preparation. Animals load last and load fast because everything else is already in the vehicle.	____
T-24 to T-12 (our banding)	Your county, for your zone. There is no national figure here.	Final capture window in daylight. Cold-chain items move from the refrigerator to the cooler at the last possible moment. Litter box and reachable water into the cabin, not the trunk.	____
T-12 to T-6 (our banding)	Your county’s road, bridge and causeway closure thresholds, published by the authority that owns the crossing.	Loading an animal that is still loose, hiding, or outdoors is no longer a plan you can rely on. If you are still home, you are now deciding whether you are staying.	____
T-0	NHC: emergency managers plan on having evacuations complete and personnel sheltered before the onset of tropical storm-force winds.	Nobody is catching anything outdoors. Confine, secure, and shelter in place with the animals you have.	____

Four notes belong on the printed card.

Your zone’s clearance time can be longer than every phase hour on this card, and where it is, it governs. A phase hour is when an order is issued. Clearance time is how long the road network needs to empty your zone, and your state or county publishes it. South Carolina’s Emergency Management Division, in Annex C to the state Hurricane Plan (May 2026 edition), models a Central Hurricane Region evacuation of Zones A through F at 59.2 hours with no lane reversal under 100 percent visitor occupancy and 100 percent resident compliance, and a single-zone evacuation in the same region at 11.4 hours. Lee County, Florida’s explainer says an evacuation out of the county would have to begin 89 hours before storm-force winds reach it, on a page last modified May 20, 2015 with 2010 Census data, so treat it as an illustration of scale and get a current figure from the county. Where your clearance figure is the larger number, your departure sits above the phase rows. Our how early to leave with pets page works that subtraction.

The rungs are not all the same kind of number. T-96, T-50, T-48, T-40, T-36, T-30 and T-0 each trace to a named publisher. T-72, T-24, T-12 and T-6 are our banding.

The hours are not counted from the same point. This card counts from wind onset where you are. Plaquemines Parish’s 50, 40 and 30 are counted from tropical storm winds anticipated to strike the Louisiana coast. Monroe County’s 48, 36 and 30 say only “in advance of tropical storm winds”. MSU’s 96 counts from predicted landfall. For a household inland of the coast, those are different hours. Ask your own office which point it counts from and write it next to the number.

The Monroe figures come from a 2012 document that states them twice, and both statements are limited to a major hurricane. Board of County Commissioners Resolution 226-2012 (adopted September 21, 2012) quotes Comprehensive Plan Policy 216.1.8, which sets the three hours “in the event of a pending major hurricane (category 3-5)”. The attached memorandum of understanding restates them at Part Two, section H. That section sits inside a part on input variables and assumptions, the MOU’s recitals tie those to a Category 3-5 hurricane, and Part One incorporates the recitals. So a Category 1 or 2 storm is outside what the county published at those hours. That is a scope limit, not an assurance that nothing happens then. As of August 5, 2026, Monroe County’s current Evacuation Information page described a phased evacuation by zone and published no hour figures. Confirm current hours and the trigger with Monroe County Emergency Management.

The four calls that fill in the blanks

Make these in the spring and write the answers on the card in pen.

1. Your county emergency management office. Ask what hour marks each phase for your zone, what point it is counted from, whether pets are accepted at the shelters serving your zone, whether pre-registration is required, and which species are accepted. Ask about any species by name if you own anything other than a dog or cat.
2. The same office: your zone’s evacuation clearance time. It is the number that sizes your window and is often longer than any phase hour. Ask for both numbers.
3. Your veterinarian and your pharmacy. Ask what a full evacuation supply looks like for each animal’s prescription and how far ahead they can fill it. Our medication refill calculator turns that answer into a reorder date.
4. Your destination. The pet-friendly hotel, the boarding facility, the relative. Confirm it is still willing and still accepts your animals. Our pet-friendly hotel evacuation guide covers what to ask.

This card assumes you can read your county’s order when it arrives. Level 1/2/3, Evacuation Warning versus Evacuation Order, and lettered hurricane zones are separate local systems that use overlapping words. Our evacuation levels decoded for pet owners page translates them.

The rows, with their sources

T-96: the number that belongs to livestock

Ninety-six hours is a livestock rule. MSU Extension’s Publication 2507, Hurricane Preparedness and Recovery for Beef Cattle Operations, says: “A general rule is to start evacuation procedures of livestock 96 hours before a predicted landfall.” It counts from predicted landfall, a different clock than this card’s. Our horse and livestock evacuation basics page carries the full branch.

For a household with only indoor pets, what belongs at T-96 is not driving. It is the tasks that fail if started late because they depend on someone else: a prescription that needs authorization, a shelter registration that needs processing, a boarding reservation that needs accepting, and gel packs that need freezing. Our insulin cooler travel case guide covers that last one.

T-72 to T-50: the last window with people on the phone

Plaquemines Parish describes Louisiana’s three-phase contraflow system as established by the state. Phase 1 “Begins 50 hours before tropical storm winds are anticipated to strike the Louisiana coast”. Louisiana writes its phases against the Louisiana coast, while Monroe County writes its hours “in advance of tropical storm winds” and names no place. Which point your own office counts from is a question for that office.

Jefferson Parish, next door, publishes the instruction that follows from a phased system: “Do not wait on contraflow or a mandatory evacuation order to be issued by Jefferson Parish Officials.” One parish publishes hours and its neighbor warns against waiting for them.

This rung is for everything that needs a human to answer the phone. Once a storm is named, vet desks, county lines, kennels and hotel desks all get busy at once. Our when to buy pet emergency supplies for hurricane season page puts durable purchases before the season, which is the version that works.

T-48: bring the animals in

Ready.gov says: “Always bring pets indoors at the first sign or warning of a storm or disaster.” The ASPCA’s disaster preparedness guidance says the same. Neither attaches an hour. T-48 is the hour by which it has to be done, since that is when a Hurricane Watch issues. But the first sign or warning is usually earlier than the watch. As of August 5, 2026, NHC’s product descriptions said the Tropical Weather Outlook covers the next 7 days, so a system is public about a week before any watch. Start bringing animals in when a system appears in the outlook.

Monroe County acts at about this hour too, for a pending major hurricane (category 3-5) only. Its first stage is a mandatory evacuation of non-residents, visitors, recreational vehicles, travel trailers, live-aboards and military personnel. The MOU adds that state parks and campgrounds should be closed at this time or sooner and entry by non-residents strictly limited. If you are a visitor in the Keys with a dog, it is also the hour your stay ends, for the storms the policy names. The scope limit and 2012 date in the Monroe note apply here.

The action is confinement, not transport. A cat with the run of the house at T-48 is a cat you may be hunting at T-14. Ready.gov also says to note where your pets hide so you can find them quickly. Our guide to getting a hiding, scared or aggressive cat into a carrier covers the technique and evacuating multiple cats covers the multi-cat version.

Documents belong here too, because a shelter door can turn you around for them. Miami-Dade County says to present medical and current vaccination records for each pet, and requires annual rabies vaccination and a visible Miami-Dade County dog license for dogs. Monroe County says medical history and current vaccination records must be presented at check-in. Our pet emergency binder and waterproof document kit guides cover the pile, and what a pet shelter checks at intake covers the door.

T-40: the vehicle starts absorbing the load

Plaquemines Parish’s Phase 2 begins 40 hours out and covers all people at risk. For the pet household this is the pre-load rung, the one that turns a chaotic departure into a short one. Ready.gov’s hurricanes page tells households to include medication, disinfectant supplies and pet supplies in the go bag or car trunk.

Out at T-40 goes the bulky, temperature-tolerant half of the kit: empty crates and carriers, bowls, litter and litter box, waste bags, sealed bottled water, towels and old bedding, a spare leash and collar, and the weatherproof crate cover if you use one. Two things do not go out at T-40: animals and cold-chain medication (see the vehicle section below).

T-36: the warning is not the start of your work

A Hurricane Warning issues 36 hours before tropical-storm-force winds. Monroe County moves its most vulnerable residents at about that hour, again for a major hurricane (category 3-5): mobile home residents, special needs residents, and hospital and nursing home patients.

Treating the warning as the starting gun is the most expensive timing error here, and the reason is arithmetic. Everything the warning tells you to do should have been done during the watch. If the warning finds your carriers still in the attic, you have lost the 12 hours between the two products at the moment everyone else in your region is also moving.

The pet actions at this rung are the ones you cannot pre-load: a written head count of every animal and where it is, fuel, cash, and a charged phone. If you are deciding between sheltering in place and evacuating, that decision was due at the watch.

T-30: contraflow

Plaquemines Parish calls Phase 3 the final and most serious phase, with maximum emphasis on encouraging evacuation and limiting entry into the risk area. Contraflow runs in this phase. The parish says that as the storm gets close, evacuation routes will be closed and anyone remaining will be directed to a “Last Resort Refuge”.

Monroe County’s resident phase is at about the same hour for the storms its policy names. The MOU finishes the sentence: a mandatory phased evacuation of permanent residents by evacuation zone, and lists five named zones from Key West to Ocean Reef. It adds that the sequence by zone will vary with the individual storm, that the concepts belong in the operational emergency management plans, and that the plan is to be updated annually. So the 2012 document is not the current figure. The recital says the phases exist to achieve and maintain an overall 24-hour hurricane evacuation clearance time for the resident population. They are the county’s method for hitting a clearance target, not a leave-by time for a household.

If you get on the road at this rung, you are on it with everyone else. Our evacuation traffic gridlock with pets page covers what a stationary car does to an animal and which supplies must be within reach of the driver’s seat. Animals load last, and that is the payoff of the pre-load: if crates are anchored and bowls are in, departure is a few short trips carrying animals. Our car loading with carriers and multiple pets guide covers restraint and anchoring, and which pet to evacuate first covers the harder call when one trip does not cover everyone.

T-24 to T-12: cold chain last, litter box in the cabin

There is no national figure at this rung, and your county’s order for your zone may already have come. The temperature-sensitive half of the kit moves now because it could not move earlier.

Refrigerated medication is the clearest case. Merck Animal Health’s Vetsulin FAQ says Vetsulin should be stored upright, protected from light, between 2°C and 8°C (35°F and 46°F), and that “Vetsulin should always remain refrigerated.” For a vial accidentally left out, Merck says: “If you accidentally leave a vial out of the refrigerator, contact your veterinarian for instructions.” ProZinc’s label on DailyMed gives 36-46°F (2-8°C) under refrigeration and says “Do not freeze.” Merck likewise says freezing damages Vetsulin and that a vial that freezes should be discarded. These are two products’ labels, not a rule for every veterinary drug, so check the one you carry. A range that narrow is why the vial stays in the refrigerator until the vehicle is actually leaving. The frozen gel packs cool the box the vial travels in; nothing here asks you to put a vial against one. Our insulin cooler travel case guide covers cooler classes and runtimes, and pet medication refrigeration in a power outage covers a cold chain that breaks anyway. For anything about a dose or a compromised vial, call your veterinarian.

The litter box, a reachable jug of water, a bowl and a towel go in the cabin rather than the cargo area, because anything in the trunk is out of reach once the car stops on a contraflow route. Our litter box options page covers the confined-space version.

T-12 to T-6: the end of the capture window

No published source gives an hour by which catching a pet becomes unrealistic, as of August 5, 2026: not Ready.gov’s pets and hurricanes pages, the ASPCA, the National Weather Service, or the National Hurricane Center’s hazards page. The published outer bound is the NHC line this card is built on.

The number that describes your household is one you measure. Our pet fire evacuation drill checklist times it with a stopwatch on an ordinary evening. One dog and one crate is different from four cats, and no table can tell you which you are.

Two things shrink the measured number. The first is T-48 confinement, which turns a capture into a pickup. The second is practice: Ready.gov’s carrier guidance is to leave the carrier out where your pet frequently goes, leave it open, feed treats near and inside it, and add a familiar blanket.

Road and crossing closures also live here, and the authority that owns the crossing sets them, not the weather. If your route depends on a single bridge or causeway, that threshold is the real constraint. Our bridge and causeway closure thresholds page covers how to find yours. Write it on the card in spring.

T-0: the card stops giving instructions

At the onset of tropical-storm-force winds, nobody is catching a loose animal outdoors and no drive is a reasonable plan. What is left is confinement, an interior room, and the shelter-in-place branch of your plan.

What can sit in the vehicle, and what cannot

Animals never stage. AVMA’s pet-safety-in-vehicles page publishes the interior temperature rise of a parked vehicle:

Elapsed time	Temperature rise inside vehicle
10 minutes	19°F
20 minutes	29°F
30 minutes	34°F
60 minutes	43°F
1 to 2 hours	45-50°F
2 to 4 hours	50-55°F

Source: AVMA, Pet safety in vehicles. The table carries the footnote “Temperature rise is basically the same, whether 70 or 110 degrees outside.”

A mild, overcast morning is not an exemption. AVMA also says: “And cracking the windows makes no difference.” It adds: “Cold weather can also threaten pets left in vehicles,” and names young, old, ill or thin pets as particularly susceptible to cold. Our car loading guide covers the cargo-area version of the risk, including the carbon monoxide problem an open tailgate creates.

Cold-chain medication never stages. It stays at refrigerator temperature until the vehicle is leaving.

Food you are relying on is the judgment call. A sealed bag of kibble in a hot trunk through a hurricane-season week is a storage decision with consequences. Our freeze-dried versus canned versus kibble comparison covers which formats survive. If in doubt, food goes at T-24 with the cooler, not at T-40 with the crates.

Everything else can go early: crates, carriers, bowls, litter, litter box, waste bags, sealed water, towels, bedding, spare leash and collar, a ramp or steps if you use one, and the document pouch if it is in a sealed waterproof container.

What this card does not decide

• Whether to leave at all. That is a hazard and structure question: shelter in place or evacuate.
• Whether your animals physically fit. A plan that assumes one trip and needs two fails at T-24. See how many pets fit in a car and multi-pet emergency planning.
• Where you are going. See board your pet or evacuate together, pet-friendly hotel evacuation, and when your county has no pet-friendly shelter.
• Species that do not travel like a dog. A fish tank, a reptile or aquarium on a heater, a flock of chickens and a parrot each have their own sequence, and several start earlier than the rows above.

The shelter row is a phone call

As of August 5, 2026, four Florida county pet-shelter pages gave four different systems.

Jurisdiction	Pre-registration	Owner stays with pet?	Species accepted
Monroe County, FL	Offered online, and “Pre-registrations are only valid for the calendar year in which they were submitted”. The page’s admission requirements (caging, medical and vaccination records, Monroe County pet license, mainland residency proof) do not include pre-registration	Page does not state	Dogs, cats and ferrets with license and vaccination records; pocket pets; birds; reptiles at in-county shelters only: “Mainland shelters do not accept reptiles”
Miami-Dade County, FL	Not required to use the evacuation center	At least one family member must remain in the evacuation center with the pet	Lists birds, ferrets, gerbils, guinea pigs, hamsters, mice, rats and small rabbits under 10 pounds. Dogs and cats are absent from that list although the same page requires dog licenses and cat rabies vaccinations. The count is stated twice in different units: “Limit four pets per household” and “up to four pets per person”
Walton County, FL	First come, first served, no pre-registration required	You must stay at the shelter with your pet at all times	“Only dogs and cats are allowed at pet-friendly emergency shelters”
Palm Beach County, FL	Page carries both a first-come, first-served notice dated 10/09/2024 and, lower down, a statement that the online pre-registration form opens every May 1st	Owners may not shelter at the shelter with their pets	Equines, livestock, small barnyard animals, exotic pets and reptiles are not accepted

In two of these counties you must stay with your animal. In a third, the page says you may not. A household that assumed the rule from one county applies where it evacuated to has a problem at the door. Palm Beach’s page carries contradictory notices, which is why the shelter row on your card should be a phone number and the date you confirmed it, not a fact copied from a website in April.

Monroe County’s calendar-year clause is the one most likely to catch a careful household: last August’s registration does not carry into this season. Add “re-register the pets” to your spring task list.

Species is not a detail. Palm Beach excludes reptiles, Walton takes only dogs and cats, Monroe takes reptiles at in-county shelters only, and Miami-Dade’s list does not include them. Our state pet shelter policy finder is the starting point, and will your pet be turned away from an emergency shelter covers what happens at the door.

The pharmacy row

Fill early, through your normal cycle, before any storm exists. The emergency provisions that exist are conditional, attach to no fixed hour, and are not written about animals. Florida publishes the clearest pair.

Section 252.358, Florida Statutes (2025), Emergency-preparedness prescription medication refills, requires insurers and other entities licensed by the Office of Insurance Regulation that provide prescription medication coverage to waive refill time restrictions and authorize payment for at least a 30-day supply, regardless of when the prescription was last filled. That applies only “if there are authorized refills remaining”, and only when the person’s county is under a National Weather Service hurricane warning, is under a Governor’s state-of-emergency executive order, or has activated its emergency operations center and emergency management plan. The refill must be requested within 30 days after those conditions begin, or until they are terminated. The Office of Insurance Regulation may extend the waiver in 15- or 30-day increments. The section also says it does not excuse an insured or subscriber from the other terms of the policy or contract.

Section 465.0275, Florida Statutes (2025), Emergency prescription refill, lets a pharmacist dispense up to a 30-day supply in the areas or counties affected when the Governor issues an emergency order or proclamation of a state of emergency, subject to five conditions. One is that the prescription is not for a Schedule II drug under chapter 893.

Three things follow, and none of them is “you are covered.”

1. The three conditions in section 252.358 are alternatives. A hurricane warning is one of three, and the Governor’s order and the county’s activation run on the Governor’s and county’s schedules, not the National Weather Service’s 36-hour clock. So no fixed hour can go on a rung of this card, and the section is no substitute for a spring buffer.
2. Neither section is written about pets, and neither says whether it reaches a prescription your veterinarian wrote. That is a question for your pharmacist and your state board of pharmacy.
3. Both are Florida law. They say nothing about Louisiana, Texas, the Carolinas or anywhere else. Ask your pharmacist before the season.

The version that works regardless of statute is the boring one: build the buffer through your ordinary refill cycle months out. Our medication refill calculator puts a date on it, and the buying-window guide explains why pre-season purchase is the one that reliably arrives.

If your storm is inland

This card assumes a coast, evacuation zones and a road out. A household several hundred miles inland gets the same named storm and a different problem, and the coastal instruction to leave is often the wrong one there. The countdown that matters inland is not keyed to evacuation phases. Our flood preparedness guide covers the hazard that arrives inland and pets and power outages covers the isolation that follows.

Print it, then fill it in

Write your county’s hour figures in the right-hand column, in pen, after you have called and been told them. Write your zone’s clearance time next to them. Write your own measured loading time on the card: the number from a timed run with your animals and your vehicle, which our drill checklist produces.

Then take the earlier of two hours. Subtract your measured load time from whichever county phase applies to you. Separately, subtract your zone’s published clearance time from T-0, and subtract your load time from that too. Your departure is whichever lands earlier, and where a clearance time is published it is frequently the second. South Carolina’s Annex C says its clearance times already include a response and mobilization allowance, so subtracting your whole load time on the second branch overlaps that allowance a little. The annex does not publish the size of the allowance, and the overlap errs early. Our how early to leave with pets page works the arithmetic to a date.

Put a date on the card. The county figures above were current as of August 5, 2026, and county pages change without announcement. A dated card is one you know to re-verify next spring.

This card is the execution half of our hurricane pet preparedness playbook and one spoke of the pet emergency playbooks hub. The playbook is what you read once. This is what you follow.