1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,180 The very, very well informed and well staffed public safety community, and they react to whatever conditions 2 00:00:09,180 --> 00:00:15,200 are presented to them by that particular storm at any given time. So last year, again, it was a very active event for us, 3 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:20,060 about very active storm season for us. There were a lot of things that were presented that were new to us. 4 00:00:20,180 --> 00:00:27,520 You handled those, as far as we could at that time. We certainly learned a lot of information that every storm that comes up to our bodies. 5 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,820 or media stuff and just after seeing this year, 6 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:32,640 or just tomorrow. 7 00:00:33,420 --> 00:00:36,060 Now, there's actually a prediction out. 8 00:00:36,260 --> 00:00:37,620 I don't have it with me right now, 9 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:38,740 but there is prediction out. 10 00:00:38,940 --> 00:00:39,800 It just came out. 11 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,340 And it is forecasted to be at a above average season 12 00:00:43,340 --> 00:00:45,280 again, somewhere to be the last several years. 13 00:00:45,700 --> 00:00:47,740 So we are looking at the above average season. 14 00:00:47,900 --> 00:00:51,580 We're looking at some very aggressive storms coming 15 00:00:51,580 --> 00:00:54,860 our way from the east, east coast of the United States. 16 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:56,780 So we'll be watching every storm that comes over. 17 00:00:56,780 --> 00:01:04,320 You know, and with her basically, you know, they, you know, over, you know, the storm 18 00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:08,480 surgeons, which is what we really need to be piloted for, you know, just to hide 19 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:13,040 in, you know, it's been on for a while, so it's sometimes for our patients, so it's been 20 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:17,640 a thing, but you know, really the storm service that I'm not saying, really, it's 21 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:18,660 the biggest surprise. 22 00:01:19,020 --> 00:01:22,140 You know, everyone thinks that the predominant threat from our 23 00:01:22,140 --> 00:01:26,840 is the man is actually a source search. So we're always looking at what is our 24 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:32,460 evacuation response need to look like in response to or in relation to the storm 25 00:01:32,460 --> 00:01:37,260 services as effective or effective effectiveness. So we're always looking at what the 26 00:01:37,260 --> 00:01:41,640 flooding potential is. Not only from the storm surge but also the rainfall. 27 00:01:41,700 --> 00:01:46,440 Rainfall is different than storm surge. So we're looking at what are the overall flooding 28 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:50,580 impacts from not only rainfall but also the storm surge. What does that look like about 29 00:01:50,580 --> 00:01:53,680 our community and how does that affect our response sounds? 30 00:01:54,060 --> 00:01:56,900 In one of these phones, the slowbirds are very, very serious, 31 00:01:57,020 --> 00:01:59,780 right in the very important ones, it'll be my power to say that. 32 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:02,980 There are a lot of people, people, people, or people like this. 33 00:02:03,060 --> 00:02:04,560 Seriously, there's a lot of slowbirds already. 34 00:02:04,820 --> 00:02:07,800 Yeah, again, we take aggressive effort throughout the year 35 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,520 to ensure that everybody is educated on what the threats are in Shadow County. 36 00:02:12,140 --> 00:02:15,860 I'd start hurricane season, we're doing these public outreach events, 37 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,900 throughout our communities, making sure that people have that awareness 38 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:22,020 and we're showing graphics on what some search could be, 39 00:02:22,020 --> 00:02:23,200 not a little bit of category one, 40 00:02:23,380 --> 00:02:24,860 but all the way to the category bustle. 41 00:02:25,580 --> 00:02:27,220 And looking at what those index could be, 42 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,040 for the voucher of accounting, we have visual maps 43 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,540 that actually show that, and it paints a really good 44 00:02:31,540 --> 00:02:34,140 picture of what the threat could be associated 45 00:02:34,140 --> 00:02:36,620 with any particular property about there. 46 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,400 Unfortunately, we're able to, for a opinion, 47 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:41,960 the activation realm of what should people deal with. 48 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:44,320 But in our relation with evacuation order, 49 00:02:44,500 --> 00:02:46,680 we expect people to be heard, we want people to be heard. 50 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:54,700 It's those who live in the last minute, and they get stuck on that 16, and they get stuck in an evacuation route for long long periods of time. 51 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:58,660 So we really encourage people to leave, I think, early on, instead of the evacuation route. 52 00:02:59,780 --> 00:03:05,040 There's the 16 quarter, the main artery, it is not a period of a little bit of a conflict. 53 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:09,360 I 16 would be conflict, and it conflicts right here in the city of Poland. 54 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,940 It takes all lanes of I 16 and moves them all less bound. 55 00:03:12,940 --> 00:03:15,180 so that we've got all lanes going westbound 56 00:03:15,180 --> 00:03:15,860 and all our evaluations. 57 00:03:18,140 --> 00:03:21,720 So, you hold people take from this event here today. 58 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:24,200 You know, our effort is to always reach 59 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,140 at least one person with every event that we do 60 00:03:26,140 --> 00:03:27,900 and we want to reach at least one person, 61 00:03:28,140 --> 00:03:29,580 and to take that one person, 62 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:31,120 ensure that they are ready. 63 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:33,800 We encourage everyone to have an emergency plan, 64 00:03:33,980 --> 00:03:36,200 know what their evacuation route is going to be, 65 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:37,360 we can call for an evacuation, 66 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:39,220 have an emergency kit. 67 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,960 So, if we can just reach one person 68 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,720 of every presentation that you did in the University of Texas. 69 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,240 So, I'm going to share it on the open to the last minute. 70 00:03:47,340 --> 00:03:57,520 That's right, for a pair now, and not only for this far, but you're right, to fight the time and emergency plan for your family, put together the contents of the emergency shift of your family. 71 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,180 That way, it's a vitality, you can grab it at the last minute if you need to. 72 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:05,000 It's there for you to have to go back to it, who all people need to ask for their responsibility. 73 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:08,720 We can make sure that everybody is prepared, who will be in much more of a safe. 74 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:15,560 Are there online resources for those made you think that you're just can't go to a free piece that I know that you're going to hold a free 75 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:25,660 Yeah, they look different on her financials though, but is it online resources that you can get a benefit of the internet is there's a time resource available for anyone who has specific needs 76 00:04:25,660 --> 00:04:34,200 You know, there are checklist that are tailored to that specific need so there's a variety of different resources. It doesn't matter to us, which resource you use you can use 77 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:40,040 you can use a media outlet and you can use record or establish an army or a fine one from a private contractor. 78 00:04:40,620 --> 00:04:43,000 It doesn't matter to us which resource you use. 79 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,520 We just encourage you to find a resource as we use for your family. 80 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,280 It has a checklist, that's appropriate for you and your family. 81 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,400 And then put together the contents of that checklist, 82 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:55,260 but together the components of that plan and just make sure that you shouldn't. 83 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:56,700 It doesn't work in any other way. 84 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,340 Whether radios are always good, they're always a failsafe for us. 85 00:05:00,340 --> 00:05:05,220 I want to make sure that, you know, fell safety indication is always very, very important. 86 00:05:05,540 --> 00:05:08,800 The cell phones may have not been available if you have much power out of this, 87 00:05:08,980 --> 00:05:11,560 but you'll have a way to whether radio is battery operating, 88 00:05:11,980 --> 00:05:14,300 but still get information from the National Service or whatever. 89 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,820 Is there anything else that's left that has that didn't pass? 90 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,060 Okay, thank you so much. 91 00:05:23,420 --> 00:05:23,660 Hi. 92 00:05:26,020 --> 00:05:26,620 Is that much? 93 00:05:27,140 --> 00:05:28,160 I'll show you more. 94 00:05:28,860 --> 00:05:29,680 Oh, a great chance. 95 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:30,680 I don't know what's going on. 96 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,940 I don't know what's going on. 97 00:05:34,940 --> 00:05:36,720 I think we're going to look at it for sure. 98 00:05:38,060 --> 00:05:40,040 I said Rachel Jones, but that's my daughter's name. 99 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:42,780 Thank you, ladies. 100 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:46,120 Thank you. 101 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:47,060 Thank you. 102 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:48,080 That's right. 103 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:50,480 Anybody on that? 104 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:51,280 Yes. 105 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:51,860 I see you. 106 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:10,260 So you're going to write it in a new way. 107 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,320 The staff are on the way of 95. 108 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:17,460 just as I just came out to the exit plan to find my normal, I don't know if I could 109 00:06:17,460 --> 00:06:22,620 go to the court amount, and there was a transport truck, a transport carer, it's on the 110 00:06:22,620 --> 00:06:28,340 shoulders of the road but they had a little cooler or a major event of fire truck, right there 111 00:06:28,340 --> 00:06:31,680 blocking up one of the lanes of traffic that will back up all the way to the court amount. 112 00:06:37,580 --> 00:06:41,800 Well, we'll just go through, we'll talk about a few things. 113 00:07:02,850 --> 00:07:03,690 You're all made? 114 00:07:14,330 --> 00:07:14,990 Well, I don't know. 115 00:07:15,110 --> 00:07:15,250 I don't know. 116 00:07:15,330 --> 00:07:15,830 I don't know where you are. 117 00:07:22,250 --> 00:07:22,710 Yeah. 118 00:07:22,850 --> 00:07:23,070 Yeah. 119 00:07:24,270 --> 00:07:24,490 Okay. 120 00:07:28,250 --> 00:07:29,970 Okay, just another. 121 00:08:01,420 --> 00:08:04,920 Good evening everyone. My name is Dennis Jones. I'm with 122 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:10,460 the Emergency Management Agency for Chattam County, the director there. We do have a formal 123 00:08:10,460 --> 00:08:16,420 presentation, however, with traffic challenges, the presentations run on a little bit late, 124 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:21,980 but we'll engage with that as soon as it arrives. But we'll go ahead and get started. So this year, 125 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:34,900 we are expecting an above average hurricane season for all of Coastal Georgia and all of 126 00:08:34,900 --> 00:08:41,080 around the beginning of May, but Colorado State University comes out with their, there's in April. 127 00:08:41,860 --> 00:08:46,380 So we are expecting an above average hurricane season for this year. That's really 128 00:08:46,380 --> 00:08:51,240 becoming the norm now, you know, for the last several years we've had an above average 129 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:57,360 hurricane season for the Continental United States. So while there are, they are saying that it is 130 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:02,960 an above average, it's really becoming more than norm than anything else. We're also seeing a more 131 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:09,080 inserted effort in classifying hurricanes earlier than June 1st. The normal hurricane season 132 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:14,780 starts June 1st and runs until November 30th, but we are seeing periods where they're starting 133 00:09:14,780 --> 00:09:22,420 to classify hurricanes in May. We were actually watching what they call an investment, which is the 134 00:09:22,420 --> 00:09:28,000 start of a hurricane. We were actually watching one of those back around the first part of April. 135 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:33,980 So, sea surface temperatures has a lot to do with the development of a hurricane. 136 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:40,680 In addition to upper-level shear and the way the winds flow up and the jet stream has 137 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:41,580 a lot to do with that. 138 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:47,820 The sea surface temperatures certainly has quite a bit of influence over the development of 139 00:09:47,820 --> 00:09:48,240 a hurricane. 140 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:52,100 So we are going to see increased sea surface temperatures. 141 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:55,680 We've already started seeing those now in the Gulf as well as in the Atlantic. 142 00:09:55,680 --> 00:10:04,080 So we should start seeing quite a bit of activity come out of the National Hurricane Center and also the Storm Prediction Center within the next couple of weeks. 143 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:14,280 We'll start seeing some activity come out, those investments that I mentioned, that's the early start of their investigation into what could develop into a hurricane. 144 00:10:14,940 --> 00:10:20,880 So I do anticipate that we're going to see some of those being at least tracked here within the next couple of weeks. 145 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:33,920 So, C-Service Timfcher is a primary factor in ensuring that the storm prediction center is really tracking those low level developments out in the Atlantic and also in the Gulf. 146 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:42,320 Early in the hurricane season, June 1st July, they really look at what the temperatures are in the Gulf. 147 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:47,720 the Gulf is obviously a lot warmer right now than it is out in the Atlantic. So we typically 148 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:53,020 sent Tennessee a lot more of those investments developing within the Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf 149 00:10:53,020 --> 00:11:00,980 of America, whichever solution you choose to abide by. But in the Gulf we typically see a lot of 150 00:11:00,980 --> 00:11:08,040 development or at least investigations in the months of June and July. And then as the Atlantic starts 151 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:14,320 warming up even more. We start to see those investments identified out in the Atlantic in 152 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:20,080 late July early August and continuing through a lot of October. And then it could actually 153 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:25,780 start having some more developments back into the Gulf around October and November timeframe. 154 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:32,200 So it does go from June 1st to November 30th as I mentioned. And there's quite a bit of activity 155 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:39,280 that takes place year-round. As I mentioned, they're starting to identify storms prior to and even 156 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:46,700 after November 30th. So we watch it year-round and making sure that we know as good tenants of 157 00:11:46,700 --> 00:11:52,020 a chatem county and also as good residents of the overall area. We want to make sure that we 158 00:11:52,020 --> 00:11:58,460 understand what the threats are for chatem county and at any given time ensure that we are as prepared 159 00:11:58,460 --> 00:12:03,460 as possible. So with that preparedness effort comes a lot of activities that we take 160 00:12:03,460 --> 00:12:10,080 throughout the community to ensure that we are educating the public as well as our partners 161 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:14,760 to ensure they understand what the threat's are for channeling County, as well as make sure 162 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:20,320 that they are as prepared as possible. Part of that is getting out into the community as we're doing 163 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:25,580 today, making sure that we are sharing the latest and greatest information as much as we have 164 00:12:25,580 --> 00:12:32,340 available to us and ensure that we are answering questions and providing resources and just doing 165 00:12:32,340 --> 00:12:36,900 our part to ensure that we're being effective in that communication to our residents. 166 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:43,540 So we take a concerted effort to plan year-round for hurricane threats for Chattam County. 167 00:12:44,020 --> 00:12:49,840 We look at what those impacts could be for us. We try and find mitigating factors for those. 168 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,260 We try to incorporate the planning efforts, 169 00:12:52,860 --> 00:12:55,940 but incorporate those mitigating factors into our planning efforts 170 00:12:55,940 --> 00:12:59,100 to make sure that, again, we're as prepared as we can be 171 00:12:59,100 --> 00:13:01,760 for any potential threat for child and county. 172 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:07,120 So last year we did have an above average season for child and county, 173 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,940 even though overall for the entire United States, 174 00:13:11,260 --> 00:13:13,920 or the East Coast of the United States, we had a above average season 175 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:16,320 for child and county. It was above average for us too. 176 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:21,660 So, we had three storms that we were reacting to, two of those are very well known. 177 00:13:21,900 --> 00:13:26,760 We had impacts from Debbie, of course it caused a lot of flooding in Chattam County. 178 00:13:27,220 --> 00:13:31,620 We had Halene, which caused a lot of wind damage in Chattam County, and right after Halene, 179 00:13:31,620 --> 00:13:37,460 it was followed up by Milton, which we were reacting to, and making sure that we were as prepared 180 00:13:37,460 --> 00:13:42,180 as possible from Milton. A lot of people don't really remember Milton. It did skirt by us, 181 00:13:42,180 --> 00:13:46,960 but we were actively working that storm while we were responding to healing. 182 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:56,080 So, very active season for us, and then following all of that comes all of the paperwork associated with ensuring that we are 183 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:03,180 doting the eyes and crossing the teas so that we can ensure that we are meeting all of the female requirements to ensure that 184 00:14:03,180 --> 00:14:08,640 a disaster declaration is afforded to Chattam County and also the residents of Chattam County. 185 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:38,540 With disaster declarations, there it is a public assistance part and there's an individual assistance part and a part of our responsibility is to ensure that we are managing the disaster effectively so that not only the government can recover but the individuals can recover and ensure that we are providing the services as well as under support elements from not only the state but the federal government to the citizens throughout China County making sure that they can recover as quickly as possible. 186 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:48,780 So that's part of the responsibility of local government is to recover its own government as well as ensure that its citizens are also recovering. 187 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:54,040 So we're still working through that process, we'll probably be working through it for several years. 188 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,940 Many people still remember Matthew and Irma. 189 00:14:57,820 --> 00:14:59,860 We just closed out Hurricane Matthew. 190 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:30,000 April of last year, so it's been a year since we closed that out and it happened in 2016. And with the federal government, we're still working on hurricane armor. So we've not closed out the response element for hurricane armor. So that occurred in 2017 and we're still working that response effort with the federal government. So you can see that it takes a long time. It takes a long time to dot those eyes to cross those T's and to make sure that we're doing our due diligence to ensure that everything is documented. 191 00:15:30,020 --> 00:15:41,040 And then we're reacting to requests for information from the federal government ensuring that we're processing things as quickly as we can on our end so that when it gets up to the federal government. 192 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:47,920 And it works through all of the different phases of federal government that it can get through that process as streamlined as possible. 193 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,520 Unfortunately, sometimes it takes a long time. 194 00:15:51,060 --> 00:15:56,240 So again, 2016, with Hurricane Matthew, we just closed that out a year ago, 2017, with 195 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:57,660 our number, we're still working at. 196 00:15:57,700 --> 00:15:59,940 Hopefully we'll have that closed out that end of this year. 197 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:04,100 So we are working Hurricane Debbie, Tropical Storm Debbie, we are working Hurricane 198 00:16:04,100 --> 00:16:08,040 Halene, and we'll probably be working those response efforts. 199 00:16:08,780 --> 00:16:13,080 They're going a little bit faster than Matthew and Armadit, so hopefully we'll be done 200 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,660 with those within about, let's say, 12 to 18 months, hopefully. 201 00:16:17,780 --> 00:16:23,880 So, as part of our preparedness efforts, again, we want to educate people on what the threats are for Chad and 202 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:30,240 County. You know, with a hurricane, a lot of people think that it's mostly the wind that's the biggest threat. 203 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:37,900 It's actually the storm surge, or it's the flooding. It's the wet stuff. So, there's an old saying and emergency management. 204 00:16:38,260 --> 00:16:42,080 You run from the wind and you hide, or you hide from the wind and you run from the water. 205 00:16:42,080 --> 00:17:02,780 So, we practice that in our planning efforts and we also make sure that we are doing our part to evaluate and look at the dynamics of each storm with each advisory that comes our way and determine what those threats to Chad and county could be so that we're making informed decisions with each advisory. 206 00:17:03,380 --> 00:17:09,360 When a hurricane is identified and they start issuing advisories on that storm, those advisories 207 00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:13,940 come out every 12 hours, and once it gets closer to the coast, then they start issuing 208 00:17:13,940 --> 00:17:15,920 those advisories every six hours. 209 00:17:16,660 --> 00:17:21,600 So with every 12 or six hour advisory, we're taking a look at the dynamics of that storm. 210 00:17:21,780 --> 00:17:27,820 It's position, how fast it's moving, what the intensity is, we're evaluating that as far 211 00:17:27,820 --> 00:17:33,320 it's proximity to Chattam County and we're making determinations on what our recommendation 212 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:39,320 would be on how our governments and our citizens should react to that particular storm at that particular 213 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:46,180 time or that advisory. So we do that on a regular basis. We have in Chattam County we have a group 214 00:17:46,180 --> 00:17:51,920 called the Command Policy Group, which is made up of the Chairman of the Chattam County Commission, 215 00:17:52,620 --> 00:17:57,220 all of the mayors of the municipalities, the city managers, of the municipalities, the county manager, 216 00:17:57,820 --> 00:18:05,500 the Board of Education Superintendent, the Sheriff, and also the Chief Judge. So we pull all of those 217 00:18:05,500 --> 00:18:11,540 elected and appointed officials together. We give them what that scenario looks like for that event 218 00:18:11,540 --> 00:18:17,320 or that particular incident that that advisory and then I give them what my recommendation 219 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:23,480 would be. Do we issue an evacuation order? Do we wait? Do we do this? Do we do that? How should governments 220 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:28,560 react, caution citizens react, and then they take that recommendation and they discuss it 221 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:33,420 and then they make a decision as to which direction we get. From there that information is 222 00:18:33,420 --> 00:18:40,100 in communicated out to the public as to what the decision is for any particular time. So there are 223 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:47,160 times where a storm is coming our way and we just don't have enough information. There are times 224 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:52,200 where a storm is forecast to be right on the top of us, but the National Hurricane Center, 225 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,180 the National Weather Service are going to say that storm is going to be off. 226 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,520 So, you know, there's no magic crystal ball. 227 00:19:00,220 --> 00:19:03,740 You take the information that is given to you at any given time and you make this 228 00:19:03,740 --> 00:19:07,340 best decision based on the information that's given to you at that time. 229 00:19:08,260 --> 00:19:14,000 So, every decision is going to change or every decision has to potential to change 230 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:18,180 with every advisory. So, as we're looking at advisory, we can say, okay, 231 00:19:18,180 --> 00:19:22,360 we need to ensure that our citizens are doing this at this time. 232 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,960 Well, six hours later, that storm could have a dynamic shift, 233 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:31,200 which then could either increase our level of activity or could decrease our level of activity. 234 00:19:31,980 --> 00:19:36,100 So we're constantly looking at what those threats are with each advisory 235 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:42,660 and trying to make the best decisions possible for our governments and also our citizens at that time. 236 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:48,720 So, unfortunately, there are times where a storm just sits and spins off the coast. 237 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:50,940 It doesn't have any forward movement at all. 238 00:19:51,420 --> 00:19:56,520 So, we're looking at a storm and we look at it every 12 hours, every 6 hours, and we're 239 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,180 constantly looking at that storm. 240 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:03,120 And it appears that we're watching this storm for like 5 days straight. 241 00:20:03,980 --> 00:20:07,280 It's because there's not a lot of forward movement associated with that storm. 242 00:20:07,300 --> 00:20:12,260 So it's always there and around the clock 24 hours a day we're watching that system. 243 00:20:12,260 --> 00:20:21,720 Making sure that we're doing that analysis with each advisory, making sure that we are communicating the best information that we can with each given event. 244 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,900 So part of, again, our responsibility is to ensure that we're educating the public. 245 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:35,380 So two things that we really encourage all of our citizens to have is an emergency plan and an emergency kit. 246 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:40,420 For an emergency plan that talks about how are you going to communicate with your family members? 247 00:20:40,420 --> 00:20:51,420 You know, if we lose power, there's typically our cell phones typically die associated with that if they don't if they're not on a tower or the generator on that tower goes down. 248 00:20:51,660 --> 00:20:52,880 So you lose cell phone coverage. 249 00:20:53,860 --> 00:21:00,080 A lot of people don't know what the numbers are for their kids or their wives or their husbands or their partners. 250 00:21:01,060 --> 00:21:07,640 So we encourage you to have that in your mercy clan right down what those cell phone numbers are, that way you've got them available to you. 251 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:13,120 A lot of times a landline, an old-fashioned landline will work when cell phones won't work, 252 00:21:13,700 --> 00:21:16,560 so you at least had the availability to find a landline. 253 00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:21,840 They're getting more and more scarce, but they are still out there, and you're able to at 254 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:23,120 least have phone numbers. 255 00:21:24,100 --> 00:21:28,320 They may be in an area where there is connectivity, where they do have cell phone coverage, 256 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:33,040 you just may be with out it, but you may still be able to get in touch with them. 257 00:21:33,780 --> 00:21:37,620 Also, we have found that during an evacuation, there's a lot of people that 258 00:21:37,620 --> 00:21:42,880 come through Cham County to evacuate, a lot of Floridians, people from other areas of the state, 259 00:21:43,620 --> 00:21:51,120 come up on 95 to 16, some people come down from South Carolina, so it really adds a congestion factor, 260 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:56,740 not only to our roadmap works, but also to our phone infrastructure. 261 00:21:57,620 --> 00:22:05,520 So a lot of times when you try and make a call, you'll get a fast busy because the cell towers are just so full or so packed 262 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:09,400 with transactions going across on the cellular platform. 263 00:22:10,220 --> 00:22:15,440 A lot of times data will work, so you can send text messages when you can't get through with a cell phone. 264 00:22:15,980 --> 00:22:19,260 So we encourage people to have that available to them as well. 265 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:26,680 So also part of that emergency plan is ensuring that you have contact numbers for people who are out of the area. 266 00:22:27,020 --> 00:22:29,980 So not only your own family members, but if you are a vac... 267 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:58,720 Waiting to know where you're going to go and have contact numbers for somebody in another part of the state or another part of the region, wherever you're evacuating to, if you've got family members in another state, ensure that you are, that you document what their phone members are so that you can communicate with them. Everything is better on paper during an emergency event than relying strictly on a digital platform. So they encourage you to have that in there, too. Also have a list of medications in your emergency plan. 268 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:03,880 A lot of times when people are evacuating, they can't remember all of the medications that they take, 269 00:23:04,740 --> 00:23:09,520 or the dosage associated with the medications they would regularly remember. 270 00:23:09,940 --> 00:23:14,700 So, encourage you to identify what those medications are and put that in your emergency plan as well. 271 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:19,000 Now, your evacuation room, there's many ways to get out of Chattam County. 272 00:23:19,740 --> 00:23:26,120 And then once you get out of Chattam County, it spires off into a variety of other different transportation networks. 273 00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:31,680 So we encourage you to go ahead and plan your route route out if we are issuing an evacuation order. 274 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,600 Know how you're going to get out of here. 275 00:23:33,820 --> 00:23:36,500 Know where you're going to go, which routes you're going to take, 276 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:41,140 and also which area you plan to evacuate to. 277 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,060 I encourage you to go ahead and plan that out. 278 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:46,660 I also mentioned having an emergency kit available. 279 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:52,460 An emergency kit is essential, especially if you have children, or if you have animals. 280 00:23:52,460 --> 00:23:57,200 You need to take the contents of an emergency kit, go ahead and put those together now. 281 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:03,380 An emergency kit is designed specifically for you, for your family members, to ensure that 282 00:24:03,380 --> 00:24:10,640 you have the necessary resources to have some comfort items available to you, to have 283 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,000 some items of necessity that are available to you. 284 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,760 We encourage you to have some canned items in there, have a can opener, make sure you 285 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:25,680 can opener with that too. Some non-perishable foods. Just so if you're stuck in your home for a long 286 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:31,200 period of time, there's no power, you still have at least something to ensure that you have some type 287 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:37,300 of comfort or some type of substance available to you so that you can at least get through the next 288 00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:43,500 several hours. Have some water in there. And you got to make sure you have some of those comfort items 289 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:48,140 to if you have small kids, but the favorite color and book in there, put some crayons and 290 00:24:48,140 --> 00:24:55,000 colored pencils, some other things that you can do with them, that's not technology-based. 291 00:24:55,800 --> 00:25:01,260 You know, again, technology may or may not be available during a hurricane landfall. 292 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,500 So ensure that you've got some of those comfort items to keep the kiddos occupied. 293 00:25:06,660 --> 00:25:11,340 For animals, you know, your favorite pet, a lot of people consider those family members. 294 00:25:11,340 --> 00:25:17,340 So, ensure that they have the favorite toy or at least some toys to play with, ensure that 295 00:25:17,340 --> 00:25:23,020 any medication that you have for your pet is listed in your plan as well as make sure you grab 296 00:25:23,020 --> 00:25:28,540 those and put those as part of your kit and that way you get all of that stuff available to you 297 00:25:28,540 --> 00:25:29,540 you can just grab it and go. 298 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,120 We also encourage you to have some kind of lighting. 299 00:25:34,340 --> 00:25:35,420 We don't encourage candles. 300 00:25:35,420 --> 00:25:43,340 We do encourage you to have light sticks, glow sticks, you can use the battery on your cell 301 00:25:43,340 --> 00:25:48,380 phone until or you can use the light on your cell phone until your battery does, but we encourage 302 00:25:48,380 --> 00:25:52,780 you to have a flashlight with some extra batteries, just again throw all that into your 303 00:25:52,780 --> 00:25:55,100 emergency kit and it's available to you. 304 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:59,620 And then as I mentioned, every emergency kit is specific to the individual, it's specific 305 00:25:59,620 --> 00:26:00,340 to the family. 306 00:26:00,340 --> 00:26:18,940 So, you can tailor it, however you need to tailor it for yourself, put the things in there that you are comfortable with, things that you think you'll need, go ahead and buy extras of that now, again throw it in a kit and put it into your closet and you've got it for next time. 307 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:27,980 When we do issue an evacuation order, we do have several services that are available to the overall community in order to get people out. 308 00:26:27,980 --> 00:26:33,160 Our effort is to ensure that everybody who wants to leave has an opportunity to leave. 309 00:26:33,740 --> 00:26:39,380 So we have a program called an evacuation program through the evacuation assembly area 310 00:26:39,380 --> 00:26:48,460 or EAA, and that is, for this next year, it'll be at the in-market arena where we open 311 00:26:48,460 --> 00:26:53,560 up the evacuation assembly area for people, again, who want to evacuate, who have no means 312 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:54,220 to evacuate. 313 00:26:54,220 --> 00:27:05,380 So, a lot of the people who are dependent on transportation are co-located close to a cat bus route or a chattamary transit bus route. 314 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:12,860 And we then work with cat to work through those bus stops picking up people who want to evacuate. 315 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,060 They bring them to the end-market arena. 316 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:16,580 We manifest them. 317 00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:19,300 We make sure that we're recording their names and locations. 318 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:23,240 We get them on a bus and then we evacuate them to an inland county. 319 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:30,060 We've been working for the last couple of years to adjust our inland county location, previously 320 00:27:30,060 --> 00:27:34,480 it's been Augusta Richmond County. We're now going to be going to make in BIP County. 321 00:27:35,140 --> 00:27:40,820 So we've been working really aggressively with making BIP to set up a host county sheltering 322 00:27:40,820 --> 00:27:46,080 relationship. It's been working out great. We just had a meeting last week up in making BIP to 323 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:51,660 kind of exercise the plan. So we're pretty excited about that. But those who want to evacuate 324 00:27:51,660 --> 00:27:58,100 they can get on any cat bus and be taken to the in-market arena and be able to get safe transportation 325 00:27:58,100 --> 00:28:03,120 from Chattam County to make and build. And then we shelter those residents up in making 326 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:09,520 and build until it's ready for everybody to come back home. So we ensure that we're tracking those 327 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:15,640 people, our citizens, meeting their needs while they're in making build. Sometimes they have dialysis 328 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:20,760 needs, sometimes they have pharmaceuticals, they have doctor office visits that they need to 329 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:26,140 tend to now they're going to a different type or different doctor, but it should be the same type 330 00:28:26,140 --> 00:28:31,860 of doctor. So we're coordinating all of that as well. Just to make sure that we're not dropping 331 00:28:31,860 --> 00:28:36,740 any resources, you know, whatever they normally would get here, we want to try our best to ensure 332 00:28:36,740 --> 00:28:42,980 that they get the same services available to them, up in making them. On the reverse side of that, 333 00:28:42,980 --> 00:28:46,780 whenever we are ready to return citizens to the Chattam County, we bring them back. 334 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,000 and we make sure that they have a safe place to go to, 335 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,680 whether it's a shelter or whether we can release them to their homes. 336 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:58,260 So before we do make a decision to bring people back to Chattam County, 337 00:28:58,340 --> 00:29:00,980 we have to make sure that we have resources in place 338 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,500 in order to support the general population. 339 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:06,020 We've got to have pharmacies available. 340 00:29:06,260 --> 00:29:09,120 We've got to have dialysis centers, at least one up and running. 341 00:29:09,460 --> 00:29:11,100 We've got to have grocery stores open running. 342 00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:14,660 We've got to make sure that we've got water and sewer services and electricity. 343 00:29:14,660 --> 00:29:20,680 So we really take a concert of effort to work with those utility partners to look at what 344 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:28,100 the restoration times are for power, for water, for sewer, for cell phone and telephone 345 00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:28,660 connectivity. 346 00:29:29,380 --> 00:29:32,780 And then we can open the county back up and portions are in hold. 347 00:29:33,420 --> 00:29:39,680 So a lot of times with hurricane, the eastern side of the county takes a lot longer to get 348 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:44,340 restoration before the western side of the county so we could open up the county in phases. 349 00:29:45,140 --> 00:29:50,520 or, again, if Georgia Powell is able to come in here and get large swaths of power back 350 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,040 on, and we can get services to large areas. 351 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,760 We can open up large portions of the county in order to be able to bring people back home. 352 00:29:58,880 --> 00:29:59,980 We do have another program. 353 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:23,780 And in place called our functional access and medical needs, those are people who are homebound who have a special need, you know, they may be on oxygen or they may not have a caregiver and they have a different type of special need where they have no ability issues, so they can register through the chat and county health department to get on what's called the hurricane registry. 354 00:30:23,780 --> 00:30:30,800 And those individuals are then handled on a one-on-one basis to ensure that they are one ready to evacuate, 355 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:36,060 to that they want to evacuate, and three, we get them to a safe inland location. 356 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:41,560 Some of those require vertical transportation, some require horizontal transportation. 357 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:47,860 So we're also marrying up the appropriate transportation resource with the individual need, 358 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,120 making sure that they get to the right location. 359 00:30:50,740 --> 00:30:56,900 So we take a concerted effort to ensure that we're advertising that in tracking that as 360 00:30:56,900 --> 00:30:58,080 reasonable as possible. 361 00:30:58,860 --> 00:31:03,740 There is a time where during an evacuation order where we have to cut off that registry 362 00:31:03,740 --> 00:31:08,040 just because we need to make sure that we're addressing all of the people who are registered. 363 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,140 There's always less than a call-ins. 364 00:31:11,940 --> 00:31:17,360 So we handle those again on a one-on-one basis to ensure that we are matching up the right 365 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:18,840 resource with that individual. 366 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:25,260 So, again, our focus is to ensure that everyone who wants to get out has the ability to get out. 367 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:34,100 So during an evacuation process, we do have a program where George Department Transportation has a program, 368 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,460 along I-16, to where they contraflow I-16. 369 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:44,220 Controflow is where they take all of the lanes of I-16 and they turn on the westbound. 370 00:31:44,220 --> 00:31:51,920 So all that East-down lanes come in into Savannah, they reverse those, so that you've got all lanes of our 16 are headed out of town. 371 00:31:52,540 --> 00:31:59,820 There is one Contrafo lane, it's right here in the city of Pula, and they actually move people over and put them into that Contrafo lane. 372 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:06,360 And again, starts reversing that process, and it goes all the way up to just on the other side of Dublin. 373 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:14,560 So, that is one crossover lane, but they also have the exit ramps and on ramps of 374 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:20,620 past 16, their headed eastbound, they reverse those, so that people can also get in the 375 00:32:20,620 --> 00:32:24,640 control lanes going out along those ramps as well as so. 376 00:32:25,300 --> 00:32:31,720 George Department Transportation has done a lot of effort in ensuring that they have mitigated 377 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,220 any delays in getting those contracts done. 378 00:32:35,580 --> 00:32:37,100 I know there's a lot of construction. 379 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,560 That's happening along I-16. 380 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:41,860 However, that construction is, 381 00:32:42,260 --> 00:32:46,340 or the plans to minimize that construction 382 00:32:46,340 --> 00:32:48,660 are built into the overall design, 383 00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:51,740 and also the scope of work whenever those contractors 384 00:32:51,740 --> 00:32:52,220 are working. 385 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,540 At any given time, when there's a hurricane threat, 386 00:32:55,860 --> 00:32:58,660 it just takes about a day for the contractors 387 00:32:58,660 --> 00:33:00,540 to actually reduce all of the work 388 00:33:00,540 --> 00:33:02,520 that they're doing there, clean up the area, 389 00:33:02,740 --> 00:33:05,140 and be able to ensure that we're reversing 390 00:33:05,140 --> 00:33:07,180 all those I-16 lanes going out. 391 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,280 So there's a lot of effort that takes place at a local level, 392 00:33:11,660 --> 00:33:14,140 at a regional level, also at a state level, 393 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,780 to ensure that we are preparing as much as possible 394 00:33:17,780 --> 00:33:20,040 in order to ensure we're getting the citizens 395 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,500 of the chat and county out safely. 396 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,260 When it comes to our public work facilities, 397 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,000 there's a lot of different providers 398 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:35,880 of public works related resources in Shadow County. You've got wastewater, you've got well 399 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:42,800 water, you've got septic tanks, and that involves a lot of different people. So not only does 400 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:49,240 it involve the governments, but there's private well providers, there's Department of Public Health 401 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:55,040 who's associated with that as well. So there's a lot of effort that goes into ensuring from a public 402 00:33:55,040 --> 00:34:00,380 work standpoint that we are trying to meet the needs of the governments, of those private 403 00:34:00,380 --> 00:34:05,100 well providers of ensuring we're supporting public health in those septic tank issues. 404 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:10,300 And again, ensuring that we're doing what we can to try and get those resources back 405 00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:12,880 available for the overall community. 406 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:18,760 So overall, there is a variety of different resources that are available to decisions 407 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:24,380 a chat of county, not only through chat of the Mercy Management, City of Poober has resources 408 00:34:24,380 --> 00:34:30,680 online, that's available to them. You can find really any preparedness activities associated 409 00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:35,720 with hurricane, you can find online. So we encourage you to have those emergency plans, 410 00:34:35,860 --> 00:34:41,160 emergency kits in place, and you know, use a resource that you're comfortable with. You can 411 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:48,020 get an emergency kit, the contents of emergency kit from Seema's website. You can go to Salvation 412 00:34:48,020 --> 00:34:52,060 Army, you can get a red cross, you can go to, you know, a lot of different new stations 413 00:34:52,060 --> 00:34:57,360 have it as well. So there's a lot of different resources. Chances are, if you are using 414 00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:01,880 a provider for your weather information, chances are you'll be able to get to some type of 415 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:08,380 information associated with a plan and also the kit from that provider. So find someone that's 416 00:35:08,380 --> 00:35:12,240 your comfortable using, look through their website to see if they have something that's 417 00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:16,880 available, that meets the needs of your family. And if they don't, you can come to 418 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:23,720 Academy of Mercy.org, and we've got a ton of resources there for anyone who needs preparedness 419 00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:27,380 and planning efforts for their community and their family. 420 00:35:28,580 --> 00:35:30,620 So that's all I have right now. 421 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:36,140 Again, Dennis Jones, the Emergency Management Agency with Chad McKellie, I'll be open for 422 00:35:36,140 --> 00:35:38,760 any questions either online or in the group. 423 00:35:39,140 --> 00:35:39,180 Yes. 424 00:35:47,420 --> 00:35:52,520 So with homeowners insurance, the insurance companies are always going to 425 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,160 defer to what the local government order is. 426 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:59,100 If we have a government issued evacuation order, 427 00:35:59,820 --> 00:36:01,580 whether it's a general evacuation order 428 00:36:01,580 --> 00:36:03,120 or mandatory evacuation order, 429 00:36:03,580 --> 00:36:07,140 the insurance companies typically tend to look at that 430 00:36:07,140 --> 00:36:10,520 as something that is a personal choice 431 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,840 on the homeowner as to whether you stay or not. 432 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,820 If you stay and there is a mandatory evacuation order in place, 433 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,760 then the insurance company typically tends to see that 434 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,820 I think homeowner is accepting their own risk. 435 00:36:23,740 --> 00:36:28,060 So when we issue a mandatory evacuation order and you choose to stay, a lot of times the 436 00:36:28,060 --> 00:36:32,960 insurance companies will not cover any damages associated with a storm at that particular 437 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,640 time because there is a mandatory evacuation order in place, the government is telling you 438 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:37,120 to leave. 439 00:36:37,580 --> 00:36:40,340 You choose to stay so the risk is on you. 440 00:36:40,820 --> 00:36:42,600 Same thing with renters insurance as well. 441 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:47,060 So anytime there is that mandatory evacuation order, we encourage you to get out. 442 00:36:47,540 --> 00:36:49,140 We don't encourage you to stay at all. 443 00:36:49,140 --> 00:36:52,500 mandatory issue is in place for a reason. 444 00:36:53,780 --> 00:36:59,740 As I mentioned earlier, we look at those assessments every six hours with each advisory 445 00:36:59,740 --> 00:37:03,740 and we're making the best decision that we can make at that particular time. 446 00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:08,820 If we're issuing a mandatory evacuation order, we really encourage you to leave. 447 00:37:10,780 --> 00:37:11,640 Yes? 448 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:18,980 You talked about returning to the county, what about the inverse, you said, you can turn on the county in phases. 449 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:20,800 But what about the evacuation? 450 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,860 Can you talk about the evacuation zones and approximately there? 451 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:24,740 Yes. 452 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,500 We have three evacuation zones in Chattam County. 453 00:37:28,060 --> 00:37:29,980 The first evacuation zone is... 454 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:36,160 So, evacuations on A is actually from the coast all the way up to the Truman. So, it's from TABY up to the Truman. 455 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:45,120 evacuations on B's from the Truman Parkway to I-95, and then evacuations on C's from I-95 to the West Coast, the chat and county. 456 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:56,400 So, we have an ability to actually issue evacuation orders in phases. If there is an Atlantic broaching storm, we want to make sure that we're trying to get the islands out first. 457 00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:04,800 So that's the evacuation zone A. So there are times in the past where we have issued evacuations for zones A and B at the same time. 458 00:38:05,020 --> 00:38:16,300 So that's everything east of I-95. There were times in the past where we only issued evacuations on A and then we issued evacuations on B and then we never did one for Z or C. 459 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,400 So there's a lot of different options available to us. 460 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:26,980 So, a lot of times when there's a very, very large storm and it's moving very fast, we either 461 00:38:26,980 --> 00:38:33,700 will go with a mandatory for everything, east of by 95 and a voluntary for some sea, or 462 00:38:33,700 --> 00:38:36,420 mages to a mandatory for the entire county. 463 00:38:36,940 --> 00:38:41,260 So it really depends on the dynamics of that storm, but there are three different evacuation zones 464 00:38:41,260 --> 00:38:42,060 in Chattam County. 465 00:38:42,140 --> 00:38:43,000 Thank you for that. 466 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:50,060 And I guess just add on to that there are others, like cooler, cooler straddles, both the 467 00:38:50,660 --> 00:38:59,860 ANC, there's also a point worth, and Savannah has the ANC, what would your advice be to those 468 00:38:59,860 --> 00:39:04,580 that are not sure where they are, if they just hero or exactly, Savannah, maybe they're in the islands, 469 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:10,100 which is in C. Where do people go to find out what their zone is, if they're not in television? 470 00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:15,540 We actually have an interactive map on our website where people can go in and type in their address. 471 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,620 It'll pull up their home and it can tell them exactly which is on their end. 472 00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:20,500 So we have that available to them. 473 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:25,420 And also, we try to be very clear in the evacuation zone lines. 474 00:39:25,860 --> 00:39:27,600 So I'm 95 is very clear. 475 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:34,040 You know, it biceps the county right from Brian County all the way up to South Carolina. 476 00:39:34,260 --> 00:39:35,920 So it's a clear dividing line. 477 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:42,380 is almost clear. It's very clear from the river all the way down to 478 00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:46,920 Arracorn, and then it gets a little fuzzy on the very south end of the county, 479 00:39:47,620 --> 00:39:51,820 but we use the treatment as a general dividing line. It's very clear until you get 480 00:39:51,820 --> 00:39:58,280 a little bit further south, but we feel those are two very clearly identified areas 481 00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:04,400 throughout the county. So we use when we advertising and evacuation, we're not talking 482 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:11,420 about municipalities will actually identify and recognize those roadways, everything east of 483 00:40:11,420 --> 00:40:15,920 I-95, everything east of the Truman. And then we'll reference the evacuation 484 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:21,780 design after that. Yes, you may not be able to comment on this, 485 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:25,540 but 486 00:40:25,540 --> 00:40:30,440 some other specific things, you know, you're not playing, you know, and so people 487 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,820 seem to be kind of overwhelmed, or they felt like they 488 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,080 were the tellers of the 489 00:40:46,340 --> 00:40:46,520 art. 490 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:52,780 Did FEMA, no kind of relocate some things they, you know, and are better prepared this 491 00:40:52,780 --> 00:40:53,660 hurricane season, 492 00:40:56,370 --> 00:40:59,050 it's likely with, you know, 493 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,120 well, I can't tell you that during 494 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:27,360 Debbie, during healing, there were a ton of federal resources that came into the state of 495 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:27,680 Georgia. 496 00:41:28,180 --> 00:41:30,880 A lot of those resources came to Chattam County. 497 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:36,360 So we actually had a disaster field office, a FEMA disaster field office, in Chattam County, 498 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,920 that had close to 200 people in it. 499 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,460 So there were a lot of resources within the boundaries 500 00:41:41,460 --> 00:41:42,420 of Chattam County. 501 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,200 We opened up a disaster recovery center. 502 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,240 We operated that for three full months, 503 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:50,380 every day, Monday through Sunday, 504 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,620 and insured that all of the resources 505 00:41:53,620 --> 00:41:56,000 that were available to the general public, 506 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,460 were available at that disaster recovery center. 507 00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:00,360 So our citizens could come there, 508 00:42:00,720 --> 00:42:02,700 they could register for resources, 509 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,540 and get information on their claims, 510 00:42:05,540 --> 00:42:09,420 get information on their property, get guidance on next steps. 511 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:15,640 So not only through FEMA, but also the small business administration was here as well. 512 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:20,060 So there were a ton of state and federal resources that were available. 513 00:42:20,740 --> 00:42:23,560 But things take time, things always take time. 514 00:42:24,460 --> 00:42:28,780 So there are still people who right now are still displaced from their homes. 515 00:42:28,940 --> 00:42:30,840 We're still working with those individuals. 516 00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:36,280 there are people who are still living in homes with with tarps over their roofs. We're still 517 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:41,640 working with those. There are municipalities that still have debris. We're still working with those 518 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:47,800 jurisdictions in order to ensure that debris is mitigated as quickly as we could. But again, 519 00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:53,400 unfortunately, things take time. I referenced back to Matthew and Irma how we just closed up Matthew 520 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:59,040 last year and we're still working Irma. So from a government standpoint, it's been years since 521 00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:03,100 we've been working with Matthew. It took us nine years to close that out. We're still 522 00:43:03,100 --> 00:43:09,040 working with Irma, so it just takes a long, long time. Now, as far as what services 523 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:14,640 and resources will be available during the next fiscal year or next calendar year, I'm 524 00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:21,060 not sure. You know, there is a concerted effort right now to right size FEMA. So there is 525 00:43:21,060 --> 00:43:28,520 a lot of effort to look at how FEMA responds to emergencies and disasters and what that 526 00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:34,360 going to look like. I'm just not sure. You know, I mentioned earlier we don't have a crystal ball. 527 00:43:34,980 --> 00:43:42,360 We can only look at things that come out and things that are available to us on an as needed basis 528 00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:50,840 basically. I did see a memo here recently that was recommending that FEMA increase their threshold 529 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:56,960 for disaster declarations, which means the states and the local counties will have to burden 530 00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:03,860 that monetary value will a little bit higher than what we have previously, and there's also talks 531 00:44:03,860 --> 00:44:10,700 of adjusting that individual assistance threshold as well. So, there's just all talk right now, 532 00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:16,260 there's been no decisions made. So, what does it look like for this hurricane season? Right now, 533 00:44:16,420 --> 00:44:22,980 we haven't been told of any changes yet. They have made some changes in grants. They would do some 534 00:44:22,980 --> 00:44:28,620 grants and they pull back some money in grants, but that comes after the fact. So as far 535 00:44:28,620 --> 00:44:33,580 as the response goes, we aren't aware of any changes right now. There's just a lot of discussion 536 00:44:33,580 --> 00:44:35,840 about what that needs to look like moving forward. 537 00:45:01,070 --> 00:45:10,790 Or, if and when, these, the terrorist take effect as far as the price is at the same, as far as I can, whether it is this obvious, which is right from the heart of our agency. 538 00:45:12,030 --> 00:45:23,530 But an old friend of mine once told me the best time to plan a note tree was 20 years ago, and the next last time is right now. So we encourage people to develop those kits now. Don't wait for there to be a threat of hurricane. 539 00:45:23,530 --> 00:45:27,990 So those emergency kits can be available for any type of emergency. 540 00:45:28,890 --> 00:45:32,090 If you have a significant power atage due to a severe thunderstorm, 541 00:45:32,810 --> 00:45:36,470 that the power atage is going to last for several hours or a day or more, 542 00:45:36,750 --> 00:45:38,650 you've got that emergency kit available to you. 543 00:45:39,190 --> 00:45:41,370 So that emergency kit is all hazards. 544 00:45:41,830 --> 00:45:42,670 It's for any disaster. 545 00:45:42,970 --> 00:45:45,730 It's for any need that you may have for your family. 546 00:45:45,810 --> 00:45:48,630 So we encourage you to go ahead and put that together now 547 00:45:48,630 --> 00:45:50,950 and ensure that it's available to you. 548 00:45:50,950 --> 00:45:53,370 for hurricane, for tornado, for severe thunderstorm, 549 00:45:53,570 --> 00:45:55,270 power outage, whatever it may be. 550 00:45:55,530 --> 00:45:57,970 Just have that kit, though it ain't a closet 551 00:45:57,970 --> 00:46:00,770 and it's available to you for whenever you need it. 552 00:46:03,020 --> 00:46:03,360 Yes, ma 553 00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:18,740 'am. 554 00:46:18,740 --> 00:46:19,520 No, ma'am. 555 00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,460 No, ma'am, because your house can't leave, obviously. 556 00:46:21,940 --> 00:46:23,400 But if you have any personal damage, 557 00:46:23,500 --> 00:46:25,720 if you fall down the stairs, you break a leg, 558 00:46:26,020 --> 00:46:28,740 you're insurance typically won't handle that. 559 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,400 Yeah, because you chose to stay in a threatened environment. 560 00:46:34,850 --> 00:46:35,290 Any other questions? 561 00:46:35,330 --> 00:46:36,170 Any questions online? 562 00:46:39,010 --> 00:46:39,450 Yes, sir. 563 00:46:49,530 --> 00:46:49,670 Good. 564 00:46:49,770 --> 00:46:50,990 Where's your nice start at? 565 00:46:50,990 --> 00:46:53,190 I'm over well, but I don't know where to begin, where do I get it? 566 00:46:53,770 --> 00:46:56,730 Yeah. Well, you could start with the same website as you just referenced. 567 00:46:57,270 --> 00:47:03,070 There's also a really good information through the American Red Cross. 568 00:47:03,170 --> 00:47:05,150 They have a lot of good disaster information. 569 00:47:05,650 --> 00:47:09,250 Matter of fact, a lot of the things that we get, we get from the Red Cross. 570 00:47:09,710 --> 00:47:13,810 So they've got some really good information to disaster-related information to help citizens and individuals. 571 00:47:15,010 --> 00:47:18,450 There's a lot of different resources through the National Weather Service. 572 00:47:18,450 --> 00:47:24,770 There is information through ready.ge.gov, so through the state, through the Georgia Mercy 573 00:47:24,770 --> 00:47:32,230 Management Agency, ready.gov is typically nationwide for those who may be listening and 574 00:47:32,230 --> 00:47:37,150 not in Georgia at all, you can go to ready.gov and that is a good resource. 575 00:47:38,230 --> 00:47:41,930 It's a consolidation of a lot of disaster information for individuals. 576 00:47:42,590 --> 00:47:50,010 Okay, so one final question I'm following up. So the storm's here. I'm not sure there's a lot of rumors 577 00:47:50,010 --> 00:47:56,650 behind our online. Where do I go as a citizen of the China County to find the most accurate up to 578 00:47:56,650 --> 00:48:01,810 the information? Aside from our local news sources, where should I get a web-based right now? 579 00:48:02,230 --> 00:48:07,050 Right. We always encourage you to ensure that you're following official government sources. 580 00:48:07,050 --> 00:48:10,990 So if you live within the city of pool or you can go to city of poolers website 581 00:48:10,990 --> 00:48:14,670 You can go to chatem counties website not only seem of the chatem county government 582 00:48:14,670 --> 00:48:18,210 Always ensure that you are using official government sources 583 00:48:18,210 --> 00:48:20,670 There's a lot of different meteorologists 584 00:48:21,250 --> 00:48:26,290 People who play meteorologists online. They have a lot of different opinions about the weather 585 00:48:26,290 --> 00:48:29,590 A lot of different opinions about what you should do as an individual 586 00:48:29,590 --> 00:48:33,530 We encourage it to use official government sources for information 587 00:48:34,150 --> 00:48:39,310 When we are issuing information out through chat in the Mercy Management, we're making sure that 588 00:48:39,310 --> 00:48:45,410 we're sending that out through a variety of different social media platforms, we're sending 589 00:48:45,410 --> 00:48:50,790 that out via email, through text messages, we're also putting it on our website, we're putting 590 00:48:50,790 --> 00:48:56,470 scrolls on the bottom of the TV, we're communicating that to our municipalities, they're doing a lot 591 00:48:56,470 --> 00:49:01,370 of the similar activities as we are and we're also communicating that information up to the 592 00:49:01,370 --> 00:49:12,610 So they can put it out through a peach state public radio. So we're maximizing all of our distribution methods to ensure that we're getting information out as quickly as we can. 593 00:49:13,930 --> 00:49:14,830 Any other questions? 594 00:49:18,130 --> 00:49:18,310 All right. 595 00:49:19,130 --> 00:49:21,330 So chattingmercy.org is our website. 596 00:49:21,890 --> 00:49:24,350 You can go there and sign up for our text alerts as well. 597 00:49:24,590 --> 00:49:26,270 It's right and scroll to the bottom of that website. 598 00:49:26,370 --> 00:49:28,430 You can see where you can sign up for CML alerts. 599 00:49:28,430 --> 00:49:32,810 that gets you text, text, based messaging from chat 600 00:49:32,810 --> 00:49:33,970 in the Immersion Management. 601 00:49:34,710 --> 00:49:36,950 You can sign up for email alerts as well. 602 00:49:37,430 --> 00:49:40,630 So we are available for anyone who has any questions, 603 00:49:40,630 --> 00:49:44,250 if you need assistance in developing an emergency kit 604 00:49:44,250 --> 00:49:46,650 or a mercy plan, we can help you with that as well. 605 00:49:46,950 --> 00:49:49,110 And we're just glad to be able to get out 606 00:49:49,110 --> 00:49:51,470 and host these types of events for our community. 607 00:49:52,010 --> 00:49:52,830 So thank you very much. 608 00:49:52,830 --> 00:49:53,470 No, 609 00:50:00,060 --> 00:50:00,080 perfect.