The early predictions are calling for a busy hurricane season this year along with a late summer La Nina building that could mean big trouble for the Atlantic seaboard. Couple that with the higher ocean temperatures and the disaster recipe would have all the ingredients for a major storm hitting the coast.
Preparing for hurricanes is part of living on the coast. It only takes one hit to change everything. Lessons learned from Hugo in 1989 resulted in changing evacuation zones. These days, not everyone is evacuated and its the water not wind that dictates evacuation zones.
Lessons from Ian might still be fresh in the minds of many who had never experienced the rise in water along the coast. When Ian hit near Georgetown after making landfall on the Gulf coast and plowing through Florida before striking SC as a minimal hurricane, few anticipated the water rising as high as it did and no evacuations were ordered in our state.
Lessons are often learned the hard way.
Much like the update to the Land Use Element, the county is not listening. Over 8 months ago the Resilience Element was adopted by Georgetown County Council and NONE of the Planning Commissioners even recognize the fact that the new land use they were about to pass along to the council this week puts more people and property in harms way and is the exact opposite of what the Resilience Element, commits to doing.
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