(12 Jul 2024)
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ARCHIVE: Bay City, Texas – 8 July 2024
1. Various of driving through flooded street
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ARCHIVE: Palacios, Texas – 8 July 2024
2. Flooded field
3. Down power line with emergency vehicle
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Tallahassee, Florida – 12 July 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Brendan Farrington, The Associated Press:
"Hurricane Beryl was a reminder to many folks that you can’t just judge a hurricane by its category. It came in to Texas as a category one storm. Many people, when they see Category one, they think, oh, well, I’m going to be okay. But, a storm’s rating, a category rating between 1 and 5, is not the only factor people should take into consideration. Like in Texas right now, 2.7 million people lost power. Hundreds of thousands are still going to be without power more than a week after the storm. And, you know, and suffering through really stifling heat as the heat wave continues in Texas and the rest of the country. I spoke with Craig Fugate, the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, who also ran Florida’s, emergency management department, for many years during some of his busiest hurricane seasons. And he said that that we’ve gotten into a bad habit of just looking at the strength of a storm and not other factors such as the size, how fast it’s moving, how much rain is associated with it. When tides are coming in, whether storm surge is going to be a problem. And tornadoes, some of these storms spawn a lot of tornadoes. Others don’t. And it’s hard for the National Hurricane Center that’s doing a broad regional sometimes international forecast to focus in on what your area, what’s going to happen in your area."
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ARCHIVE: Tampa, Florida – 11 November 2020
5. Various wind and rain during tropical storm
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Tallahassee, Florida – 12 July 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Brendan Farrington, The Associated Press:
"Don’t just rely on, the Category one through five. Similarly, don’t look at flood maps. As Fugate says, flood maps are more of a tool for the insurance industry. It doesn’t mean that you won’t flood if you’re not in the flood zone. It just means you have cheaper insurance. Same thing when you look at that cone when a hurricane is coming. That is not the path that is going to suffer severe effects. That is where the center of the storm may go through. And you could have a storm extending out dozens of miles beyond that center. So you may not be in the cone, but you could have problems worse than people who are."
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ARCHIVE: New Orleans – 29 August 2021
7. Various wind and rain during hurricane
STORYLINE:
Former Federal Emergency Management Director Craig Fugate has some advice for people following storms: Don’t judge their severity on how big a number they’ve been assigned.
Measuring a storm’s danger based on a 1 through 5 scale is just one tool in assessing potential damage.
People often mistakenly think a tropical storm or a Category 1 hurricane are nothing to worry about, when they can sometimes be more devastating than a major Category 4 or 5 storm.
A category only measures wind strength. It doesn’t factor in storm surge, rain amounts, possible tornado formation, or a storm’s size or speed.
Fugate recommends following local forecasts provided by the National Weather Service.
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