Building Owners on the East Coast are familiar with battening down the hatches and prepping for hurricanes from early August to late October, but is there something you might be missing? While most people know to protect exteriors against driving rain and high winds, elevators are often overlooked during storm preparations. As storm after storm churns toward the United States in the early fall, building owners in high-risk areas should prepare a hurricane checklist for their elevators before troubled waters begin to rise.