FEMA in touch with Alabama and Georgia officials as Hurricane Irma track shifts west
by Todd Shepherd | Sep 10, 2017, 9:35 AM
FEMA Administrator Brock Long said as Hurricane Irma's predicted track moves further west, the agency continues to stay in touch with local officials in Georgia and Alabama, noting especially that storm surge in the Gulf waters will be a key concern.
"Storm surge has the highest potential to kill the most amount of people and cause the most money damage," Long said on "Fox News Sunday." "My biggest concern is when people fail to heed a warning early from local government officials and then they make a last-minute ditch to try to get to a shelter or into a facility to withstand the winds and in some cases the water starts to rise and they get trapped because they didn't heed the warning early and that's my greatest concern."
As of 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time, the eye of Hurricane Irma was directly over the Florida Keys and the center of the storm will begin moving up the western coast of Florida. The full width of Florida could feel hurricane force winds in the next 24 hours.
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