St. Simons Island Savannah Hilton Head are unprepared...

[Coastal-GA]

After having seen New Orleans, and not having had a substantial hurricane in 100 years...I am concerned that many people here are complascent and unprepared, and in Savannah, would not evacuate.

Wouldn't you be complascent after this many near misses?

http://savannahnow.com/stories/060197/HURtimeline.html


Henry

[Coastal-GA]

One way to get prepared:

http://cema.chathamcounty.org/documents/Complete%20Hurricane%20Plan%20July%2004.pdf

[tallbunch]

Very much so and people just don't want to leave. We have been asked to leave so many times and nothing. I stop leaving after Hugo in 1992. I stay and so do most locals. Hilton head would be under water if I real rainmaker came. It floods if we get 3 inches of rain.

[SouthFloridawx]

shhh don't talk about it an it won't come there. ....

Get prepared on monday cause it's not supposed to be off the coast until thursday.. if it makes a loop.

[GTStorm]

I hold out hope that an evacuation, if necessary (it's still WAY to early to make that call) would be exponentially more effecient than what we experienced during Floyd. That's not to say that some boneheads who have the option and means of leaving would still stay put in the event of a major storm. I would guess that Katrina has put the thought of staying in a new perspective for lots of folks, although I do think that Katrina is somewhat of a special case since any floodwaters here would recede as opposed to what's happened in NO.

[SouthFloridawx]

My girlfriends mother in pennsylvania said she was going to evacuate if they had a cat 1 coming to PA. LOL

[LarryWx]

After having seen New Orleans, and not having had a substantial hurricane in 100 years...I am concerned that many people here are complascent and unprepared, and in Savannah, would not evacuate.

Wouldn't you be complascent after this many near misses?

http://savannahnow.com/stories/060197/HURtimeline.html


Henry

Maybe so, but a very large number did evacuate for Floyd in 1999 despite the horrendous traffic. One reason is that Savannah even then had an extensive plan of utilizing buses to take those needing transportation.

[aOl]

First of all, I would be shocked if it hit South Carolina or Georgia. And even if it does, it will not even be a cat 2 or maybe it might be a minimal cat 2. Now if you feel the need to evacuate from a weak storm like that, you don't deserve to live on the coast.

[NastyCat4]

First of all, I would be shocked if it hit South Carolina or Georgia. And even if it does, it will not even be a cat 2 or maybe it might be a minimal cat 2. Now if you feel the need to evacuate from a weak storm like that, you don't deserve to live on the coast.

An incredibly insensitive and misinformed comment, especially in the light of damage and destruction this year. One should follow the evacuation orders of local and State authorities, and any and all NHC advisories.

[aOl]

First of all, I would be shocked if it hit South Carolina or Georgia. And even if it does, it will not even be a cat 2 or maybe it might be a minimal cat 2. Now if you feel the need to evacuate from a weak storm like that, you don't deserve to live on the coast.

An incredibly insensitive and misinformed comment, especially in the light of damage and destruction this year. One should follow the evacuation orders of local and State authorities, and any and all NHC advisories.

Um, if you are referring to Katrina or Dennis those were both Cat 4 or higher... fine if people want to go to all the trouble and evacuate, let them, ain't none of my business. What do I care if they waste time and money.

[f5]

I think Georgia residents won't evacuate beacuse they think there coastline is hurricane proof

[Derek Ortt]

well, AOL gets the "Einstien of the day Award"

what a rediculous statement. are you not aware just how surge prone Georgia is?

[NastyCat4]

well, AOL gets the "Einstien of the day Award"

what a rediculous statement. are you not aware just how surge prone Georgia is?

Let's chip in and buy aOL a rowboat, so that he can sit off of the SC coast, and NOT evacuate.

[Captkeith2]

I have lived on Hilton Head Island for 16 years. Before my wife and I had children we didn't consider evacuating. Now that we have children, my wife and the kids are the first to go, usually ahead of an evacuation order. Believe me being stuck in evac traffic off hilton head with three children is no picnic. Once our crew and I get the boats anchored then I leave too. Others may choose not to evac and that would be fine except it's people like aol who end being filmed on CNN holding up spray painted HELP signs for the news helicopters. Just one more fool for the Fire Department and Police to rescue.

[jlauderdal]

After having seen New Orleans, and not having had a substantial hurricane in 100 years...I am concerned that many people here are complascent and unprepared, and in Savannah, would not evacuate.

Wouldn't you be complascent after this many near misses?

http://savannahnow.com/stories/060197/HURtimeline.html


Henry

well they beeter get their heads screwed one because cat 1 katriana knocked out power to 1.5 million people here and we know what a stronger system can do so if they aren't prepared than tough beans.

[SouthernWx]

First of all, I would be shocked if it hit South Carolina or Georgia. And even if it does, it will not even be a cat 2 or maybe it might be a minimal cat 2. Now if you feel the need to evacuate from a weak storm like that, you don't deserve to live on the coast.

I sincerely hope you don't live along the Georgia coast; if you do, that clueless attitude will IMO someday get you killed.

FYI: On August 27., 1893 a 115 mph (954 mb) category 3 struck Georgia just south of Savannah. Over 2000 people died.....most in a devastating storm surge which completely innundated Tybee Island, Hilton Head Island, and most other low lying barrier islands between Brunswick, GA and Charleston, SC (where the storm surge was 11-12' high). Estimated storm surge heights at Savannah Beach reached 16-17'.....from a "minimal" cat-3 hurricane.

In October 1898, a powerful (938 mb/ 135 mph) cat-4 hurricane slammed into the Georgia coast between Brunswick and Jacksonville. The storm surge was over 19' feet high; downtown Brunswick was under 6-7' of storm surge. Some ships were washed inland over 25 miles.....well west of I-95.

The Georgia coast is extremely vunerable to a devastating storm surge.....the slope offshore is shallow (similar to the GOM offshore Mississippi). Also, the concave shape of the Georgia coastline accentuates the storm surge.....funnels it toward the coast and makes it higher. Major hurricanes are rare events along the Georgia coast.....only 4 or 5 occurring during the period of record 1846-2005, but when they strike, it means disaster and possible catastrophic loss of life.

PW

[Coastal-GA]

Here from NOAA,

http://www.noaa.gov/questions/question_101802.html

In general, the worst storm surges hit places where the ocean floor slopes gradually (e.g., around the Gulf of Mexico). Communities with a steeper continental shelf, on the other hand, will not see as much surge inundation (although large breaking waves will present major problems). Hurricane forecasters consider New Orleans, La., to be the U.S. city most at risk from storm surge. A major hurricane could drive 20 feet of water into this city, which is already below sea level. Southwest Florida (from Tampa Bay south to the Everglades) is considered the next most vulnerable because of the large number of people living along its coasts and the shallow slope of the adjacent ocean bottom. On the Atlantic coast, areas north and south of Savannah, Ga., are also considered more dangerous for the same reason. When you consider that much of the United States' densely populated Atlantic and Gulf Coast coastlines lie less than 10 feet above mean sea level, the potential for danger from storm surge becomes apparent. For more information about what you can do to prepare for and lessen the risks posed by storm surge, visit the NOAA National Hurricane Center's Hurricane Awareness Web page.

People need to wake up to that fact!
Henry

[MBismyPlayground]

well, AOL gets the "Einstien of the day Award"

what a rediculous statement. are you not aware just how surge prone Georgia is?

Let's chip in and buy aOL a rowboat, so that he can sit off of the SC coast, and NOT evacuate.

Naw, a rowboat is too good, give him to me.....haha


I have the perfect place for him here is SC.

[krisj]

I don't live in Savannah, but the Charleston area and I know that Gaston, which was a direct hit, was only 75 mph winds and there were trees on houses all over me, tons of flooding and of course, loss of electricity.

But I know down in Hilton Head the attitude is that they haven't been hit in 100 years and they are protected somehow.

Think I'll call my parents down there and see what they are doing and make sure they are preparing.

[Dr. Jonah Rainwater]

Right, because it's been so long since that time a mere Category One hurricane killed 9 people when it hit South Florida.

Oh wait.