City of Islamorada
Emergency Manager's Office
To: The Mayor
From: Amy Reliant, Emergency Manager
Regarding: Island - We're first to be hit.
As you know, our island is an easy target for a hurricane. If olivia comes this way, we could be hit hard. One key reason is that we are an island.
- Our island has the Gulf of Mexico on one side and the Florida Bay on the other.
- The Keys are bits of land joined together by a series of bridges. You can see from the map that our island is in the middle of the Keys, just off the coastline.
- When a storm comes along, we take the brunt of its attack.
The storms do this with their high waves, or storm surges. The water goes so high, a good portion of the island will be underwter if the storm hits here.
I recommend evacuating the island. We cannot take the risk of having a bunch of tourists and local residents stranded in the storm surge. Many people might drown.
It is a tough decision, since the storm could miss us. Even if it does, however, we can say we did the right thing to protect our residents.
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