Craig Fugate, the next director of FEMA, has taken an proactive approach in anticipation for this year’s hurricane season……
The newest FEMA director was nominated by President Obama and is encouraging the residents of the Florida Keys, and Key West in particular, to be prepared for this year’s hurricane season. His message?? Evacuate.
Fugate is no stranger to the Keys. He has served as Florida’s emergency management director since 2001, is a former Miami-Dade fire chief and is proficient in hurricane preparedness. In fact, Fugate is credited with being a leader in the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons, a heavy year for South Florida that resulted in 8 major storms.
Key West is known to be in the “Zone of West Indian cyclones”, hurricanes that tend to hit heavily between August and September. The most severe hurricanes in Key West hit in October of 1846, 1909, and 1910. The hurricanes devastated the land and destroyed ships as well as a variety of cigar shops. The 1910 hurricane, dubbed “the repeater hurricane”, defied odds by hitting the island in just one year…..
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