On Tuesday, April 22nd the Port of Morgan City and St. Mary Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness hosted our 13th Annual Hurricane Preparedness Meeting along with NOAA, National Weather Service, U.S. Coast Guard and St. Mary Levee District. Thanks to all of you for making this event a success.
Many thanks to Lee Turner with Senator Cassidy's office and Laura Meadows with Senator Allain's office for taking time out from their busy schedules to join us. We also want to thank everyone else who joined, as we had nearly 100 people in attendance.
Presentations from NOAA, NWS, USCG, St. Mary OHSEP and St. Mary Levee District are available below:
* NOAA Presentation
* National Weather Service (NWS) Presentation
* USCG Presentation
* St. Mary Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness Presentation
* St. Mary Levee District Presentation
A recording of the meeting is available via KQKI's Youtube page; KWBJ TV22 Facebook page; KBZE 105.9FM Youtube and Facebook pages.
For the latest information on storms, visit the National Weather Service Lake Charles at https://www.weather.gov/lch/.
For the latest updates for St. Mary Parish visit St. Mary Parish Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness website at https://stmaryohsep.org/ or visit their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/stmaryohsep/wall/.
For current U. S. Coast Guard Port Conditions bulletins visit https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/msi.
For the latest navigation bulletins issued by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District visit https://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/Missions/Navigation/Navigation-Bulletins/.
Additional resources provided by NOAA include NOAA's nowCOAST https://nowcoast.noaa.gov/, NOAA's Inundation Dashboard https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/inundationdb/, NOAA PORTS Morgan City https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ports/index.html?port=mc, NOAA NGOFS2 https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ofs/ngofs2/ngofs2.html and NOAA STOFS https://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/estofs/
