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Post-Hurricane Considerations for Golf Carts: Safety, Damage, and Future Choices

Introduction

Hurricanes leave behind a path of destruction, and among the concerns often overlooked is the impact on golf carts. Whether you own a gas-powered or lithium-ion electric golf cart, understanding post-hurricane risks is essential for safety and long-term usability.

1. Flooded Golf Carts: Water Damage Severity

Comparing Lithium-Ion and Lead-Acid Battery Golf Carts

One of the biggest concerns after a hurricane is whether a water-exposed golf cart can be salvaged.

Lead-acid battery golf carts: Flooding can cause short circuits, corrosion, and battery failure. Lead-acid batteries may survive short-term submersion if dried and cleaned properly, but long-term damage is likely.

Lithium-ion battery golf carts: While lithium-ion batteries are sealed and less prone to immediate corrosion, exposure to water—especially saltwater—can lead to dangerous thermal runaway, increasing fire risks.

2. Post-Hurricane Fire Risks: Fact or Fiction?

It is reported that 80% of fires caused by golf carts involve lithium-ion batteries, according to St. Johns County Fire Rescue. While lithium-ion technology offers superior performance and longevity, water damage—especially from salt water—can create electrical instability.

Key Safety Precautions:

Move exposed electric vehicles or golf carts at least 50 feet away from buildings to prevent fire hazards in the days following a storm.

Disconnect the battery and avoid attempting to charge a flooded lithium-ion battery.

Inspect all wiring and battery enclosures before using the cart again.

3. Gas vs. Lithium-Ion Golf Carts: Which is More Resilient?

After a hurricane, gas-powered and electric golf carts each have their own challenges:

Gas-powered golf carts may experience water contamination in the fuel system, engine failure, or rusting in the carburetor.

Lithium-ion golf carts pose a greater fire risk if saltwater damage has occurred, but they avoid the mechanical issues that gas engines face.

Which One Should You Choose?

For those who seek reliability and adventure, lithium-ion golf carts offer long-term advantages, including reduced maintenance and faster charging. However, post-hurricane safety measures must be taken seriously.

Conclusion

Whether you own a gas or electric golf cart, understanding post-hurricane risks can prevent accidents and financial loss. If your golf cart has been submerged, prioritize safety, and if you’re considering an upgrade, weigh the pros and cons of lithium-ion versus gas-powered models. In an era of exploration and resilience, lithium-ion technology remains a bold choice for those ready to embrace the future of golf carts.

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Advice for After the Hurricane

By Anne Gisleson, The Atlantic, Sept. 17, 2018

The other night at a neighborhood library event in New Orleans, someone asked me if I was experiencing any PTSD from the media coverage of Florence churning toward the Carolinas. While the images were similar to Katrina in their alarming scope, the answer was actually “no.” Thirteen years living in the aftermath of a natural and man-made disaster, you can develop a sort of deep weariness, an almost philosophical detachment in response to new threats. You’ve seen the destruction, experienced the loss and witnessed how the rebuilding plays out over time--the positive changes and the enduring challenges, the heroic actors and the corrupt.

Florence won’t reopen the wound, because the wound never closed. Not really. The storm altered the trajectories of families, neighborhoods, and communities.

The thought of hundreds of thousands of people resetting their lives after Florence, with unknown results, just as with Harvey and Maria last year, can be exhausting when you’ve experienced something similar firsthand. But part of that calm detachment I feel comes from knowing that, for the most part, for most people, things are eventually going to be okay, will eventually seem “normal.” It’s just the getting there that can be tough.

Around the fifth anniversary of Katrina I helped write and edit How to Rebuild a City: Field Guide from a Work in Progress, a citizens-eye view of post-storm New Orleans.

From our collective experience, here’s what might prove helpful--right after the storm, and even long after the TV cameras are gone.

Make space for your sanity in the immediate stress of the disaster; don’t watch too much television. Some self-medication is permissible. Gutting houses and clearing debris (your former life) is exhausting. Take time out for yourself--nature walks, out of town trips, pedicures. Try to keep organized and document everything. This is so much easier now with the ubiquity of smart phones. Stay on top of the insurance adjusters. Also: write things down, not only for the adjusters, but because it helps keep your overloaded brain focused. Set attainable goals. Mourn when you need to.

Don’t wait around for the city or country to replace the street signs--make your own. Are the Red Cross trucks scarce in your neighborhood? Organize your own relief effort. Assemble an armada of buddies on lawn mowers and mow the neglected parks. Papers not reporting something important? Become a citizen journalist. If civic resources are taxed, you can marshal your community resources and step in.

Identify the obstacles to your recovery and pool resources and knowledge with other equally fired-up individuals. Get involved in your neighbor organization, or other community groups. After a disaster, you can lose years of your life to meetings, but it’s important to physically connect with others, and a community’s needs can be amplified if given a collective voice.

Be prepared for the long haul. Or decide you can’t bear it: A generation of rebuilding isn’t for everyone, and that’s fine too. The option of taking the insurance money (fingers crossed) and moving to a less threatened environment is a perfectly reasonable option. Though you will be missed, and people might resent you for a while. Or, tragically, as in the case of Katrina, some people just won’t be able to return, too many things barring their path home.

None of this will likely give any comfort to anyone when Florence disintegrates, the water and winds recede, and you’re facing an overwhelming wreck. The storm may change your reality forever. But if you’re lucky, years down the line, you’ll find that generosity, gratitude, and tenacity have outlasted the storm’s physical destruction.

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This next Toothley’s Tunes can be applied to the recent hurricane.

Once Matthew had passed our state and I went back home, I was so relieved. Of course, being a facet of my creativity, Toothley was relieved as well.

So, without further ado, this one is based on Aerosmith’s “No More No More”.

Okay, sure, the song’s more about the lifestyle of a rock musician (namely Steven Tyler in this case), but I just feel the major key in this song represents a positivity here. Like “yay, the storm didn’t destroy us, and now it’s gone.” Hence, “No More No More”. Matthew’s gone, and most people on the east coast can go back to their daily lives.

On one final note, this was created with one of my swatches. I’ll reblog this soon on my palette blog.

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Berri - Sunshine After The Rain (1994)

This one goes out to New York.

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my father waited on a line at a gas station for an hour and a half - which, of course, wastes gas while you sit in line, creeping along - and literally JUST as he got to the pump, the attendant put up a sign saying "No More Gas."

and do you know what a lot of people were doing, besides filling up their cars (many of which were enormous SUVs)? People had buckets with them and were paying attendants to let them take more gas. That should be illegal, for some people to take more than their own car's limit while other people don't get anything. We should be rationing, not doing whatever possible simply to make more money.