Hurricane Irene: Nonno's Preparations

My father-in-law would do anything for me, but not too much for his house. It's similar to the way I am with money. Maybe he buried something from years ago and simply cannot/will not do any home improvements. I've been emailing him pictures of the flooding in the basement all year every time it rains. He never cared. At all. And today with the onset of the hurricane, he again avoided any obligation and/or instinct to try to do something to avoid flooding.