County To Hold Emergency Meeting On Tropical Storm Fay

August 22, 2008

The Escambia County Commission will hold an emergency special meeting this morning to determine if a local state of emergency should be declared in advance of Tropical Storm Fay.

The commission will meet in the Escambia County Emergency Operations Center at 10 a.m. for a conference call with the National Weather Service and the county’s emergency leaders.  A local state of emergency would allow the county to institute protective actions if needed.

Escambia Emergency Management officials are continuing to monitor Tropical Storm Fay. There are no evacuations or protective actions in place at this time. There will be school at all Escambia County public schools on Friday.

“The forecast path is forecasted to come through Escambia County beginning sometime Saturday and into Sunday,” John Dosh, chief of the county’s emergency management agency, said. “It will be a depression. It will not be a tropical storm at present forecast track.”

“Our concern is not so much the wind, but the rain,” Dosh said. “We could receive in excess of seven to 10 inches of rainfall over the weekend. That is our main concern at this point.

If some computer models are correct, the storm might stall in our area until Monday or Tuesday.

“That could potentially be even more rain,” Dosh said.

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