Residents asked to write their names on their bodies to help police identify them after Helene

PERRY, Fla. – The Taylor County Sheriff’s Workplace within the Huge Bend of Florida is taking the dire step of asking residents who selected to not heed necessary evacuation warnings for Hurricane Helene to put in writing their identify and different figuring out data in everlasting marker on their arms or legs for ease of identification do you have to grow to be a sufferer. 

Taylor County is underneath a Hurricane Warning and Storm Surge Warning with as much as 20 ft of storm surge anticipated, based on the Nationwide Hurricane Middle. These storm surge ranges can be historic and what the NWS in Tallahassee known as “catastrophic and doubtlessly unsurvivable.”

The necessary countywide evacuation order was issued for Taylor County on Tuesday.

“When you or somebody you understand selected to not evacuate, PLEASE write your identify, birthday and vital data in your arm or leg in A PERMANENT MARKER so as to be recognized and household notified,” officers stated in a press release.

The Taylor County Sheriff’s workplace requested those that stayed behind or their kin to e mail them with a roster of who’s staying put, together with whether or not their tackle is inland or alongside the shoreline, their tackle, and the way many individuals can be staying there. 

Instance of storm surge affect in Fort Myers, when Hurricane Ian hit in 2022.

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Officers have additionally requested residents, company and those that did evacuate to chorus from returning to Taylor County till they obtain an official assertion from the Emergency Operations Middle. Officers foresee many roads being impassable, together with harmful circumstances, comparable to fallen bushes and downed energy strains. 

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Hurricane Helene is anticipated to make landfall within the Huge Bend of Florida Thursday night time or early Friday morning, presumably as a Class 4 hurricane.