By Ben Wolford, Sun Sentinel
South Florida has been without a major hurricane since 2005, but it has no shortage of hurricane apps.
Search “hurricane” in the Apple App Store, and, yes, the University of Miami shows up, and so do at least 75 variations of storm tracking and disaster preparedness mobile software.
On Wednesday, as an Atlantic storm became the fifth tropical depression, the American Red Cross joined the field.
It launched its creatively titled “Hurricane App,” the digital Swiss Army knife of disasters, your family’s go-to resource when the next Cat 3 bears down. The free iPhone and Android product has emergency checklists, weather updates, shelter locaters — even an alarm sound and a flashlight.
“The American Red Cross app looks like it has a lot of promise, but we really can’t tell how well it’s going to function until we see some alerts,” said Trevor Misisco, who owns an Apple consulting firm, Expert MacServices, in Boca Raton. Click here to read more……..