Saturday, September 09, 2017

Hurricane season!

The entire show of The Five Friday night devoted to Hurricane Irma. Steve Harrigan, who did such a superb job reporting on Hurricane Harvey, now reports from Miami that people are fearful of staying and fearful of heading north on one of two highways out of Florida.

Hurricane Harvey had incredible amounts of flooding. The rainfall from Irma is predicted to be a little less than Harvey, but with much stronger winds. Wildfires still burn in Oregon and California. FEMA has its hands full, with 200 people working each of two 12-hour shifts to coordinate help to people around the country. Prior to the storm hitting, FEMA prepositions operations where they think the storm will cause the most damage. Harvey victims are not being forgotten.

One of the biggest concerns is the storm surge, which may be 5 to ten feet deep with life-threatening inundation. The last storm this powerful was Hurricane Donna in 1960 when Florida was much less populated.

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