NEMA Activates Natural Disaster Standard Operating Procedures for Hurricane Matthew
Hurricane Matthew has left sheer devastation in five states along the Atlantic Coast. While significant flooding from rain and storm surge was anticipated in several coastal communities in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina; not even the most experienced weather experts at the National Hurricane Center were able to predict the deluge of rain that would fall on North Carolina and Southeast Virginia in the final hours of the storm before it dissipated out to sea. The rivers and streams in…