1. Clear your dock of all unsecured items including chairs, tables, umbrellas, planter boxes, lights, etc.
2. Flip up or remove dock ladders.
3. Check and tighten all bolts and screws as they may have become loose from wood shrinkage and motion.
4. Consider affixing your name, address and phone number to any section of the dock that could come loose in high waters.
5. Remove all non-critical, potentially polluting items (paint cans, gas cans, etc.) from the boathouse.
6. To the extent possible, elevate and secure all remaining items.
7. Unplug all non-critical electrical items.
8. Lower tops on all boats in a boathouse.
9. Leave boathouse doors partially raised to allow for high waves and ice movement.