LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)—Hurricane season is right around the corner and it’s never too early to be prepared.

KLFY spoke with Eric Keeler, a sales person at window world on the do’s and don’ts for when you’re shopping for windows for hurricane season.

“A non-impact window is just a regular everyday window that everyone orders.” Says Keeler, “Impact windows is a window that has extra glass, an extra panel of glass, sandwiched with a high tense plastic lament, in there so it can withstand what’s called a large missile test.”

Keeler tells News 10 that to perform a missile test, an eight-foot length of tube is shot out of an air cannon at fifty feet per second at the window.

If you’re looking for another way to protect your windows, plywood is another popular way. However, Keeler says that buying an impact window is a more trusting form of protection.

“Plywood is okay and people do it but it’s hard to store, it’s heavy and when a storm is coming you have to do all the labor to put them on your house. They’re difficult to manage. The easier solution is to buy impact windows.”

But impact windows don’t just protect your home from hurricanes, Keeler tells News 10 there are other benefits as well.

“It makes your house not only safer from hurricanes but also highly energy efficient and very quiet, it blocks the outside noise so it’s more comfortable and it’s safer.”