Water Resources of the United States
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:52:04 EDT
Summary: CFWSC staff in Florida have begun storm tide sensor and rapid deployment gage retrievals along the coast as Hurricane Dorian as passed north.
Florida received a FEMA Mission Assignment on Wednesday Aug 31 to deploy Storm Tide Sensors (STN) and Rapid Deployment Gages (RDG) along the Florida coast. Staff deployed 157 STN's and 8 RDG's. The deployments were completed on August 31. Staff began retrieval of STN's on Sep. 4. Today (Sep 5) 41 staff are in the field retrieving STN's and RDG's. 1 staff member is co-located with Florida Department of Emergency Management and FEMA in Tallahassee to advise on potential high water mark campaign.