Officials Encourage Prep as Hurricane Season Starts in SC

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — With hurricane season beginning Wednesday, South Carolina emergency officers need residents to arrange.

Gov. Henry McMaster has proclaimed Hurricane Preparedness Week beginning Sunday.

The South Carolina Emergency Administration Division is emphasizing this yr that individuals know their evacuation zone, easy methods to put together their house to experience out a storm and what highways they should take to evacuate with the slogan “Know Your Zone, Put together Your House, Bear in mind Your Route.”

Getting ready your private home not solely consists of checking your hurricane shutters and roof, but in addition ensuring that you’ve got the correct and correct amount of insurance coverage, the company stated.

And it is not simply coastal houses that want to arrange. Latest hurricanes to hit South Carolina have introduced large floods inland and may convey tornadoes and excessive winds effectively away from the coast.

Well being officers stated residents also needs to make sure that their COVID-19 boosters and vaccinations are updated and embrace masks and different disease-fighting objects of their hurricane kits in case they should evacuate to areas the place there’s excessive unfold of illness.

4 hurricanes have straight or not directly impacted South Carolina prior to now six years, prompting evacuations for Hurricane Matthew in 2016, Hurricane Irma in 2017, Hurricane Florence in 2018 and Hurricane Dorian in 2019.

Meteorologists are predicting an above common variety of hurricanes and tropical storms this yr.

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