Good afternoon. I'm Patrick Fuller, Director of Emergency Management here in Charlotte County. As of the 2pm advisory hurricane, Haleen is now, uh, now has sustained winds of 110 miles an hour. It is moving north northeast at 16 miles an hour. It is still expected to reach major hurricane, uh hurricane status and make landfall eventually late this evening in the vicinity of the Big Bend of Florida. In Charlotte County, we are currently experiencing storm surge waters and we can continue to see those increase into the evening and linger for some time afterward. If you are in a home and you're concerned about flooding in your home and it's safe for you to do so please do evacuate. We are still currently operating two general population shelters, one at Harold Avenue Rec Center and the other at Kingsway Elementary School both within Port Charlotte. Charlotte County has not sustained, not experienced, sustained tropical storm force winds at this point, but we've had numerous observed tropical storm gusts. If you can avoid traveling on our roadways, please do so. But if you find yourself on our roadways, please do not travel through flooded waters. Turn around, don't drown. It's incredibly unsafe and could risk your life by traveling through flooded waters. With that, I will turn it over to Sheriff Kama. Thank you, Patrick, and good afternoon. Well, ladies and gentlemen, as you all know, this is not an e-in event. We're not going to be taking a direct hit, but it does have its hazards. We still are experiencing flooding throughout the county. There are many roads that are already closed. There are blockades up on some of them, but unfortunately, we don't have enough block cades to block all the roads that are being flooded. So if you are heading down these roadways, please follow the directions of the deputies if they're there, the police officers. If they're barricaded, do not go down the road. I don't want to see my deputies or any other first responder be put into a dangerous situation because somebody was stupid. So please, like Patrick said, don't drown, turn around. We're out there, we're out there in full force, we're there to help everybody before, during and after the storm. But please take precautions. We still have some dangers and hazardous situations out there. So be safe, everybody. And at this time. I'll talk it turned it over to chief fair Thank you, sir So Jason fair director of public safety and fire chief for Charlotte County fire any MS So again, thank you for being here Appreciate the opportunity and the team itself and as stated this is not a hurricaneian However, there's a lot of lessons learned through Hurricane Ian that we have the opportunity here to leverage in this event. So, however, it's also not an opportunity to let your guard down either. So we are maintaining our emergency response capabilities and we'll continue to do that as long as conditions permit. Should we get up into that 45 and above, then we will start to augment those responses. We do maintain a force across both public safety, meaning law enforcement and fire any MS to meet what's being forecasted and then some. And so we are leaning way forward in that and feel like we can carry that commitment throughout this storm. So with that, I'll turn over Commissioner Truex. Thank you, Chief. Good afternoon, thank you guys for being here and just wanna remind everybody that yes, it's not an end event but there's still serious consequences out there that can be had. As Charlotte County residents we've been through this many times before and the people that have been here know what to do. So help those citizens and those residents around you that don't know what to do. Help them get through this thing. It's not a major storm for us but there there's still issues, and you could help one another out there, which is what we do here in Charlotte County. You've probably prepared very well. And if you haven't, check with your neighbors, everybody check in with one another, and assist as I request. The additional impacts of the storm are gonna continue through this afternoon this evening. So we ask you to stay vigilant to the request that have been made by our public safety sector and that we ask that you do this Please pray for all of our residents across the state of Florida There are many of them are going to be much more impacted than we will be so we asked for those prayers to protect them And all our first responders across this great state and for all those who may enter our state to assist after the storm Thank you all. Be safe. Do you have any questions? I have a couple of firsts for Patrick. Do you know are there any homes that are inundated with water? Are we seeing any damage from that flooding yet? I know there is a lot of flooding. Too early to know the full extent of the flooding. There are some reports of water intrusion into homes. but as I had stated, we expect the water to rise for some time now into the evening. So if the anticipation is there'll be more water into additional homes. And the bearing color bridges closed. How long are we expecting that to be closed for? And should folks try to go down 75? What is your advice to them? I-75 is the desired route, alternate route to the US 41 bridges when they are closed. Right now we're seeing flooding in the city of Pana Gorda as expected and that necessitated the closure of the northbound span of the US 41 bridge. So I-75 is the preferred alternate route. I have a question much for the sheriff. We were with a couple of your deputies on Manusodakil last night talking about how it looked like there was a lot of people that were not on the island, which was great. But then a little after we spoke with Bill, there was folks doing donuts in the roundabouts. What would you say to those folks that are not taking this seriously in terms of safety? Well, they need to take it seriously and they stop the need to stop being stupid. It just takes a little bit of water to cause a big event. And we still have a lot of water and in-dation that we're expecting to come in. You know, I saw on a camera earlier today, too, that somebody was out at Anglewood Beach. You look like they were surfing. You're just taking your life into your own hands. This is not a joke. You need to take it seriously. It's not an event, but it has hazardous conditions and somebody can lose their life if they're not careful. When we have a question I have a spree, I'm sorry, I just popped into the head and I was about to ask me to go out there for a second. What are our shelters look like now? Yesterday, we just opened up when we spoke with you, how are we doing, what's the capacity looking like? The shelters have been open just over 24 hours. We're showing minimal, minimal clients currently. I believe as individuals start seeing the waters rise, we'll see additional individuals present on our shelters, but that's also not indicative necessarily of all those who have heated our warnings and evacuated. We always urge our residents if they can, if they evacuate, go to a friend or family members home that's better option than our shelters. She's a quick guy. I have a question for you now. Sorry, I pulled everybody over. Any idea how many people actually he did that advice? And we talked about it quite a bit yesterday in terms of how many people actually gone from our barrier islands. So, it's fine having a total number of what got off. We have a better number of what's remaining there. So we're looking at about 50 people that are on Dompadro, Night Island, and looking at about I think it was 40 that are sitting still on, sorry, 20 still on a little Guasper Island. Our emergency services has been in yet, slash when will that happen? emergency services are still active right now still in primary response mode at this point. So once we get those wins we look at about that 45 mile an hour that's when we start to make those adjustments and again I say adjustments because you know that might be in certain areas so and it also is based on those call types too but we do make it normal once they're sustained at 45 that's kind of our trigger point. I don't know who will be best to answer it so whoever is is you know we talk about water is going to continue to come up How much water we think it is still coming in when is high tide? So we can we can look at it expecting an additional High of storm surge the exact number I can't tell you I will say the the estimated peak storm surge time frame is around that nine to ten p.m of the to get some more folks to know, especially in regards to how much letting Mary Spill. I think we could treat my shit at home. Yeah. Yeah. Water bad. Water bad. We're staying out of it. Water bad. All right, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. Thank you, folks. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go there about four times. So here, you're going to be able to do that. And we're just sitting around that where the people are. 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