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Packet: Lift Station & Force Main, River Gauge, Transit, Code Red, Facilities, TIA, SDS, etc. @ LCC 2022-10-24

Update 2022-10-24:
Videos: River Gauges, Lift Station, Disaster Relief, Hazards, Facilities, TIA, Service Delivery @ LCC 2022-10-24.

It’s a long agenda even with no rezonings, at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session this morning.

They vote Tuesday evening at 5:30 PM on $3 million in expenditures.
The agenda says that
$1,839,820 for Hazard Mitigation will be “Fully reimbursed to Lowndes County (90% from FEMA 10% from Pruitt Health Corporation)”.

Cost What
$1,839,820.00 Approval of Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Applications
$1,084,938.91 Exit 13 Lift Station and Force Main Project
$50,300.00 Patrol Car Laptop Lease
$31,500.00 Code Red Service Renewal
$23,850.00 Joint Funding Agreement with USGS for Stream Gauge Maintenance
$3,030,408.91 Total


[Agenda @ LCC 2022-10-24]


Agenda @ LCC 2022-10-24

The Stream Gauge item is for the river gauges
on the
Withlacoochee River at Skipper Road [sic] (Hagan Bridge) and the Little River near Hahira (Folsom Bridge).

Here is

the agenda
.

The board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request,
is
on the LAKE website
. Continue reading

Hurricane Andrew was record-breaking, Irma is much worse

Seth Borenstein, NBC Miami, 8 September 2017,

Hurricane Andrew Was a Monster; Irma Could Blow It Out of the Water:
Andrew, “an incredible buzz saw giant tornado of a hurricane,” killed 65 people; Irma is much larger
,




Satellite imagery of Hurricane Andrew (inset, at left) from Aug. 23, 1992, is digitally superimposed, to scale, over imagery of Hurricane Irma on Sept. 7, 2017.

Photo credit: NOAA

At the time, Andrew was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history with
damages of $26.5 billion in 1992 dollars (about $50 billion in
current dollars), according to the National Weather Service.

“The effect of Irma on the state of Florida is going to be much
greater than Andrew’s effect,” said Continue reading