Emergency Operations Center<\/a> said that although a slightly below-average Atlantic hurricane season is predicted, they will continue to prepare like any other year.<\/p>\nHe said this year they’ll continue to look at the water temperature that can speed up a storm’s intensity.<\/p>\n
“We certainly have seen catastrophic hurricanes even on below average years, Hurricane Andrew being one of the primary examples,” said Ryan Lamb, Cape Coral emergency management and resiliency director.<\/p>\n
Lamb said the city is in the process of implementing $150 million in grants to help in case another storm hits the city. They are using that money to rebuild and build weirs in the city for flood control, build a resiliency hub recreational center, and improve lift stations to make sure water stays on, just to name a few.<\/p>\n
He said it isn’t too early to get your family’s plan together.<\/p>\n
“It’s just not hurricanes, it could be tornadoes, other types of disasters,” Lamb said. “We want to make sure we have our 72-hour kits, and we’re always ready to go. But as we’re getting ready, we want to be starting to ramp up towards the tax-free holidays and these other things to get ready, to go over your supply list and make sure you’re prepared.”<\/p>\n
Lamb said the city will host a hurricane expo on May 30 at the German American Social Club.<\/p>\n
WINK’s Weather Authority will be there, bringing you the latest information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Cape Coral could get another break from major hurricanes this season. Ryan Lamb with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115,221],"class_list":{"0":"post-225200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-lee","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}