2013 hurricane table top exercise
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2013 Hurricane Table Top Exercise. Background. Ten plus years since last major hurricane Twenty four years since last major landfall Hurricanes all around us Katrina Rita Ike Hanna Irene Sandy. August 31, 2013, 1100 hrs Advisory # 24 96 hours from Evacuation - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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2013 Hurricane Table Top Exercise
SCEMD Background• Ten plus years since last major hurricane• Twenty four years since last major landfall• Hurricanes all around us
– Katrina– Rita– Ike– Hanna– Irene– Sandy
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• August 31, 2013, 1100 hrsAdvisory # 24
96 hours from EvacuationOPCONs, situations and issues
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• September 2, 2013, 0500 hrs Advisory # 31
72 hours from EvacuationOPCONs, situations and issues
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September 3, 2013, 1700 hrsAdvisory # 37
36 hours from EvacuationOPCONs, situations and issues
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• September 4, 2013, 0500Advisory # 39
24 hours from EvacuationOPCONs, situations and issues
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September 4, 2013, 1700 hrAdvisory # 41
12 hours from EvacuationOPCONs, situations and issues
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September 5, 2013, 0800 hrsAdvisory # 42
Mandatory EvacuationOPCONs, situations and issues
SCEMD Part 2: Landfall / Initial Response
SCEMD Part 2: Landfall / Initial Response
• Situation: September 5, 2013 Wind: 125+ mph in Charleston, 100+ in Clarendon, 90+ in
Sumter, max 80 all the way through Lancaster County Storm surge/tide: 16 plus ft barrier islands, 10 -13 ft
peninsula, Mount Pleasant and East Cooper area. Big picture impacts: 35,000 residences destroyed Injured: 650 Missing or trapped: 68 in Charleston, more elsewhere Deceased: 22 Sheltered statewide: 21,000 Much of the Charleston barrier islands and most of Mt
Pleasant are destroyed, peninsula and the Charleston Neck is significantly damaged.
SCEMD Part 2: Landfall / Initial Response
• Situation: September 5-6, 2013 Majority of the infrastructure in Charleston County has been
impacted, with some facilities either destroyed or inoperative. An estimated 20% of the county’s population did not or could
not evacuate. Tree blowdowns and other debris are blocking all access to the
county. There are significant road blockages and trees on houses in Berkeley, Clarendon, and Sumter counties.
Power, water, wastewater, and telephone service is inoperative in Berkeley, Clarendon and Sumter counties, and sporadic in Lee, Kershaw and Lancaster counties.
SCEMD Landfall / Initial Response
• Situations and issues– Lee, Sumter, Clarendon, Berkeley, Dorchester, and
Charleston EOCs are non-functioning– 75% of hospitals are non-functioning immediately
following the event– Massive debris fields on lifeline routes– 15 – 45% of all homes in the path of the storm are
destroyed– People still in disaster areas
Thank You