Governor Haley was in Horry County Friday to make sure people are ready for hurricane season, which official starts Monday, June 1st.
Among other things, she said it’s important that every family knows what to do in the case of a hurricane and urged families to make it a personal responsibility to stay prepared
“Do you’re children know what to do should something happen? What is your evacuation route going to be? Do you have family members that you know your going to stay with? All of those questions need to be answered by every family in South Carolina, should there be an emergency,” said Haley.
The governor re-enforced the importance of Horry County’s “know your zone” policy on evacuations which breaks down the evacuation routes into zones A, B, and C.
Haley also called on businesses to be prepared for the economy after a storm, “the importance of keeping a strong economy after a storm is making sure your small businesses and companies are taken care of…. After you’ve dealt with the evacuation, after you’ve dealt with making sure everybody is safe, it is getting people back to work. It is about jobs, it always comes back to jobs.”
Horry County’s Emergency Management Director, Randy Webster agrees businesses play a vital role in disaster recovery, “getting that economic engine running again is extremely important. We’ve talked a lot about that over the years, that we want to stabilize a disaster, get it to stop, so we can start that economic engine again; and get (peoples) lives back to what will probably be the new normal.”
Webster says the biggest change in this years plan, was addressing the need for more emergency shelters in the county. More than 13,000 emergency shelter spots in 18 locations will be available heading in this year’s hurricane season which is triple the 4,000 in ten locations in 2014.
Authorities are constantly re-evaluating plans, Webster says this years tripling of emergency shelters came after going over a 2012 study, which started “know your zone.”
“We’ve had time now to go back and look more into that study and realize there’s some potential areas out there we can accommodate more shelters in; and that’s what we did with the cooperation from the school district and Red Cross.”
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or “NOAA” predicts a below normal hurricane season in 2015…. but it only takes one storm to devastate a community.
Red Cross Hurricane Evacuation Shelters in Horry County:
Aynor Elementary
516 Jordanville Rd.
Aynor, SC
Aynor High School
201 Jordanville Rd.
Aynor, SC
Aynor Middle School
400 Frye Rd.
Galivants Ferry, SC
Blackwater Middle School
900 East Cox Ferry Rd.
Conway, SC
Conway High School
2301 Church St.
Conway, SC
Conway Middle School
1104 Elm St.
Conway, SC
Green Sea Floyds Elementary School
5000 Tulip Grove Rd.
Green Sea, SC
Green Sea Floyds High & Middle School
4990 Tulip Grove Rd.
Green Sea, SC
Loris Elementary School
901 Hwy 9 Business East
Loris, SC
Loris High School
301 Loris Lions Rd.
Loris, SC
Loris Middle School
5209 Hwy 66
Loris, SC
North Myrtle Beach High School
3750 Sea Mountain Hwy
Little River, SC
Ocean Bay Elementary School
950 International Dr.
Myrtle Beach, SC
Ocean Bay Middle School
905 International Dr.
Myrtle Beach, SC
Palmetto Bay Elementary School
8900 Hwy 544
Myrtle Beach, SC
Pee Dee Elementary School
6555 Hwy 134
Conway, SC
Waccamaw Elementary School
251 Claridy Rd.
Conway, SC
Whitemore Park Middle School
1808 Rhue St.
Conway, SC
Among other things, she said it’s important that every family knows what to do in the case of a hurricane and urged families to make it a personal responsibility to stay prepared
“Do you’re children know what to do should something happen? What is your evacuation route going to be? Do you have family members that you know your going to stay with? All of those questions need to be answered by every family in South Carolina, should there be an emergency,” said Haley.
The governor re-enforced the importance of Horry County’s “know your zone” policy on evacuations which breaks down the evacuation routes into zones A, B, and C.
Haley also called on businesses to be prepared for the economy after a storm, “the importance of keeping a strong economy after a storm is making sure your small businesses and companies are taken care of…. After you’ve dealt with the evacuation, after you’ve dealt with making sure everybody is safe, it is getting people back to work. It is about jobs, it always comes back to jobs.”
Horry County’s Emergency Management Director, Randy Webster agrees businesses play a vital role in disaster recovery, “getting that economic engine running again is extremely important. We’ve talked a lot about that over the years, that we want to stabilize a disaster, get it to stop, so we can start that economic engine again; and get (peoples) lives back to what will probably be the new normal.”
Webster says the biggest change in this years plan, was addressing the need for more emergency shelters in the county. More than 13,000 emergency shelter spots in 18 locations will be available heading in this year’s hurricane season which is triple the 4,000 in ten locations in 2014.
Authorities are constantly re-evaluating plans, Webster says this years tripling of emergency shelters came after going over a 2012 study, which started “know your zone.”
“We’ve had time now to go back and look more into that study and realize there’s some potential areas out there we can accommodate more shelters in; and that’s what we did with the cooperation from the school district and Red Cross.”
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or “NOAA” predicts a below normal hurricane season in 2015…. but it only takes one storm to devastate a community.
Red Cross Hurricane Evacuation Shelters in Horry County:
Aynor Elementary
516 Jordanville Rd.
Aynor, SC
Aynor High School
201 Jordanville Rd.
Aynor, SC
Aynor Middle School
400 Frye Rd.
Galivants Ferry, SC
Blackwater Middle School
900 East Cox Ferry Rd.
Conway, SC
Conway High School
2301 Church St.
Conway, SC
Conway Middle School
1104 Elm St.
Conway, SC
Green Sea Floyds Elementary School
5000 Tulip Grove Rd.
Green Sea, SC
Green Sea Floyds High & Middle School
4990 Tulip Grove Rd.
Green Sea, SC
Loris Elementary School
901 Hwy 9 Business East
Loris, SC
Loris High School
301 Loris Lions Rd.
Loris, SC
Loris Middle School
5209 Hwy 66
Loris, SC
North Myrtle Beach High School
3750 Sea Mountain Hwy
Little River, SC
Ocean Bay Elementary School
950 International Dr.
Myrtle Beach, SC
Ocean Bay Middle School
905 International Dr.
Myrtle Beach, SC
Palmetto Bay Elementary School
8900 Hwy 544
Myrtle Beach, SC
Pee Dee Elementary School
6555 Hwy 134
Conway, SC
Waccamaw Elementary School
251 Claridy Rd.
Conway, SC
Whitemore Park Middle School
1808 Rhue St.
Conway, SC