website and then going to the information
page for the PDRP.
The draft PDRP was expected to be available
early this week, he said, though a Sarasota
News Leader search could not locate it on the
information page on April 8.
A NECESSARY UNDERTAKING
To emphasize the need for the PDRP, Wreford
showed the audience two slides taken of the
Bolivar Peninsula near Galveston, TX, in
2008. The first was shot before Hurricane Ike
made landfall; the second, six days later. "[It]
looks like nuclear winter," Wreford said of
the "after" photo.
The Bolivar Peninsula, he explained, "is
very much like our Sarasota County bar
rier islands."
Hurricane Ike was just a Category 2 storm,
he pointed out. Yet, the ability of the fetch to
build up across a long expanse of the Gulf
of Mexico resulted in the water having a
A map created with federal software shows the areas expected to be affected by storm surge from a
Category 2 hurricane. Image courtesy Sarasota County
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