Curry encouraged residents to know their flood and evacuation zones and come up with a plan as the storm moves north through the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida.
Ian intensifies; tropical storm, storm surge watches issued for NE Florida, SE Georgia coastline
“At this time we are don’t have any plans at this moment to close city offices or departments,” Curry said, adding there are no plans currently to order evacuations or open shelters. Public works crews were in Arlington on Arbell Drive to clear out the storm drains. Crews also worked to clean out a ditch that runs behind homes in the area.
“This will be flooded all the way up to Hogan, the whole area,” said resident Joe Disalvo. “They’ll have emergency services come in, but it’s the same old, same old. You got to be able to get the infrastructure in place to repair this flood zone here. And it’s easier said than done. It’s very expensive. I know the city has plans to do it. Just hopefully we can start you know, making it happen.”
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