Normally, Sprayberry and officials from other state agencies would take their show on the road, making in-person visits before representatives from counties, cities and towns in hurricane-prone areas.
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”Not worried, just concerned.”Įarlier this month, he said, Emergency Management and other state agencies held a virtual teleconference to update and hear concerns from about 300 people - including local emergency management officials, first responders, National Guardsmen, volunteers and many others - on executing the plans for hurricane preparedness and recovery. “It’s important to be concerned,” Sprayberry said. He said his agency has “a good, solid plan” to deal with a hurricane during these troubling times, but he didn’t downplay the seriousness of the additional problems a major storm could create this year. Mike Sprayberry, director of the state Department of Public Safety’s Emergency Management, said COVID-19 adds many new and unwanted challenges, especially with shelters. The new website created by the North Carolina Office of Emergency Management helps people in coastal communities understand what kind of flood risk they face in case of a storm. Now it faces a much bigger challenge: The likelihood that a hurricane will hit the coast during a pandemic of the highly contagious coronavirus. North Carolina, like other states, has struggled to recover from the aftermath of one hurricane after another. In less turbulent times - those with cooler oceans and without the dampening effects of an El Nino - the typical prediction would be 12 named storms with six becoming hurricanes. Seven storms have already been named this season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts a 60 percent chance of an above-normal hurricane season with 13 to 19 named storms, with six to 10 of those becoming hurricanes. That threat has become magnified this year.
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Traffic snarled in Wilmington on July 11 as hundreds of vehicles lined up to receive free hurricane preparedness toolkits.Īfter three major hurricanes in 36 months, officials say the tremendous response to the toolkits shows that people are taking the threat of another hurricane seriously.
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