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September 09, 2005
Georgia Gets a Hurricane?
Because of the Georgia coast's unique geography and location relative to Florida and the Carolina coasts, it is very rare for a hurricane to have a direct hit on our barrier islands and port cities. I've got some anecdotal evidence of my own: I lived in St. Simons Island very briefly in 1995, and Atlanta got hit by a hurricane (and even lost power for an extended period in many areas) but St. Simons escaped unscathed, barring some windier than normal days.
Anyway, Hurricane Ophelia is brewing in the Atlantic Ocean near the Georgia coast, and it's projected 5 day path has it making landfall right near Savannah, about 50 miles away on the South Carolina coast. Here's a picture of it's projected track:
I can't imagine that any of the folks who read this blog aren't already familiar with the National Hurricane Center's website but if you're not you should definitely check it out. Thousands upon thousands of competent, intelligent and hard working people work for local, state and federal government agencies, which can be hard to remember when most of the government agencies on display in the last two weeks have been utter disasters. The NHC is one of those organizations.
We should remember that as we move forward and the instinctive response of some political observers will be to privatize and eliminate government agencies throughout (such as Rick Santorum, who wants to eliminate the National Weather Service, which runs NHC) because of the poor response of FEMA that a lot of brilliant people want to dedicate their lives working for the government to help people in need, it's just that they need good managers and administrators so that they can do their jobs.
Posted by Chris at September 9, 2005 12:17 PM
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