After record-breaking rainfall and cresting on rivers and creeks, Walton County officials are using what they saw from Hurricane Sally to prepare for this upcoming storm season.
“We saw Sally as being a more lopsided storm,” said Walton County Emergency Management Director Jeff Goldberg. “So all the heavy weather was going to the east of it, and we were to the east of the eye.”
This year, Goldberg is tweaking plans to be better prepared.
“The use of drones, and unmanned aerial vehicles,” said Goldberg. “We brought in Florida State University’s Center for Disaster Risk Policy, we’ve had a long-term relationship with this organization and they brought their drone team in and they did some recon work for us.”
In the areas safety personnel could not access, search and rescue had to call in additional resources.