Hurricane season has just begun. In Leon County, that means everything from reviewing emergency plans to staying informed as forecasters outline what residents can expect this year.<\/p>\n
While the Atlantic hurricane season is looking comparatively less busy than past seasons, it is still important to be aware of weather patterns and have preparations in place. That is the topic of today\u2019s Speaking Of.<\/p>\n
A weekly deep dive into Tallahassee’s most talked about news topic. Hosted by Gina Jordan every Thursday.<\/p>\n
Host Gina Jordan sat down with Leon County Director of Emergency Management Kevin Peters and Leon County Director of Community Relations and Resilience Matt Cavell to discuss information residents should know.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the things that we hear people say is, \u2018I\u2019m from Florida, I\u2019ve lived here my whole life, I know hurricanes,\u2019\u201d Peters said as one of his main concerns for Leon County residents in any hurricane season. \u201cThat can be a little bit of a dangerous attitude because you have to treat every hurricane as different because every storm is going to be different.\u201d<\/p>\n
Peters and Cavell emphasized getting familiar with Leon County’s emergency management resources and hotline as well as organizing hurricane plans, emergency kits (\u201cgo-bags)\u201d, and building an offline reliance \u2014 taking steps such as printing your list of phone contacts and reviewing the disaster survival guide sent in the mail.<\/p>\n
Speaking about the anticipated less active season, Florida Public Radio Emergency Network Meteorologist Megan Borowski reminds listeners that \u201cseasonal forecasting does not give us insight into the potential track of storms, it just gives us a basic overview of totals compared to average.\u201d<\/p>\n
Click LISTEN above to hear the full conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurricane season has just begun. In Leon County, that means everything from reviewing emergency plans to staying informed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-295927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295927","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=295927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}