The Jacksonville forecast office of the National Weather Service (NWS) held an Integrated Warning Team (IWT) meeting for the core media, emergency management, first responder, military, and academic partners. This meeting focused primarily on tropical activity, with the afternoon focusing in on the impacts of Hurricane Irma to Jacksonville and Hurricane Michael to the Florida Panhandle area. Several stories from the perspectives of the NWS, county-level Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs), those who stayed and lived, and those who stayed and perished are told. 

My live-tweeting of this event can be found on Twitter at @srmullens.

Tweets of specific talks can be found at:

• EM Decision Making Process During Tropical Events - Jonathan Lord, Director, Flagler County EM
• WFO Jacksonville Briefings During Tropical Weather Impacts - Angie Enyedi, Senior Meteorologist, NWS Jacksonville
• St. John's River during Hurricane Irma - Al Sandrik, WCM, NWS Jacksonville
• Hurricane Michael - Jessica Fieux, Senior Meteorologist, NWS Tallahassee
• Hurricane Michael Stories - Mike Buresh, Chief Meteorologist, WJAX-TV, Jacksonville
  • Mike Buresh's blog post about his trip to Michael's impacted area. Has pictures to go along with the stories I relay in the podcast. The post (scroll down past the polar vortex content) also includes links to further blog posts, FB live recordings, and podcasts he has done on the event.

 

- Images obtained from Pixabay.