SCEMD

2013 Hurricane Table Top Exercise

SCEMD Background• Ten plus years since last major hurricane• Twenty four years since last major landfall• Hurricanes all around us

– Katrina– Rita– Ike– Hanna– Irene– Sandy

SCEMD

• August 31, 2013, 1100 hrsAdvisory # 24

96 hours from EvacuationOPCONs, situations and issues

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• September 2, 2013, 0500 hrs Advisory # 31

72 hours from EvacuationOPCONs, situations and issues

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September 3, 2013, 1700 hrsAdvisory # 37

36 hours from EvacuationOPCONs, situations and issues

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• September 4, 2013, 0500Advisory # 39

24 hours from EvacuationOPCONs, situations and issues

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September 4, 2013, 1700 hrAdvisory # 41

12 hours from EvacuationOPCONs, situations and issues

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September 5, 2013, 0800 hrsAdvisory # 42

Mandatory EvacuationOPCONs, situations and issues

SCEMD Part 2: Landfall / Initial Response

SCEMD Part 2: Landfall / Initial Response

• Situation: September 5, 2013 Wind: 125+ mph in Charleston, 100+ in Clarendon, 90+ in

Sumter, max 80 all the way through Lancaster County Storm surge/tide: 16 plus ft barrier islands, 10 -13 ft

peninsula, Mount Pleasant and East Cooper area. Big picture impacts: 35,000 residences destroyed Injured: 650 Missing or trapped: 68 in Charleston, more elsewhere Deceased: 22 Sheltered statewide: 21,000 Much of the Charleston barrier islands and most of Mt

Pleasant are destroyed, peninsula and the Charleston Neck is significantly damaged.

SCEMD Part 2: Landfall / Initial Response

• Situation: September 5-6, 2013 Majority of the infrastructure in Charleston County has been

impacted, with some facilities either destroyed or inoperative. An estimated 20% of the county’s population did not or could

not evacuate. Tree blowdowns and other debris are blocking all access to the

county. There are significant road blockages and trees on houses in Berkeley, Clarendon, and Sumter counties.

Power, water, wastewater, and telephone service is inoperative in Berkeley, Clarendon and Sumter counties, and sporadic in Lee, Kershaw and Lancaster counties.

SCEMD Landfall / Initial Response

• Situations and issues– Lee, Sumter, Clarendon, Berkeley, Dorchester, and

Charleston EOCs are non-functioning– 75% of hospitals are non-functioning immediately

following the event– Massive debris fields on lifeline routes– 15 – 45% of all homes in the path of the storm are

destroyed– People still in disaster areas

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