NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Nickea Bradley, Houston's deputy director for emergency management, about the challenges of preparing for hurricane season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
We're going to head to Texas now, which is facing a new threat amid the deadly pandemic. Last night, Hurricane Hanna made landfall on the Texas coast as a Category 1 hurricane. Earlier today, it was downgraded to a tropical storm. But the National Hurricane Center says life-threatening flooding remains a threat. And all of this is happening as Texas has become a coronavirus hotspot.
MARTIN: Your reports aren't in yet from the hardest-hit areas. Is that what you're saying? It's still a situation in flux.MARTIN: So I imagine that you've also been working on coronavirus emergency management in addition to what would be your normal portfolio, right, which is severe weather. We've been facing this health crisis for some months now.
So everything from when you get on a bus to evacuate, the number of buses that will be available will be more so that we can have people socially distance on the bus, requiring everyone to have a mask. You know, we have isolation and quarantine locations identified as well. So we try to think full-scale of how we can assist our residents, keep them safe but also keep them safe from COVID-19.
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