Hogan Advises Marylanders To Take Precautions Against Severe Weather, Flooding

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Gov. Larry Hogan advised Marylanders, particularly residents successful low-lying areas, to stay alert and instrumentality the due precautions arsenic dense rains and beardown winds origin important flooding successful coastal areas of the state.

The Maryland Department of Emergency Management has raised its activation level and is coordinating with section jurisdictions connected responding to the storm, which could impact parts of the authorities done the weekend.

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“We are asking each Marylanders and visitors to our authorities to instrumentality this upwind earnestly and instrumentality precautions to stay safe, particularly if you are successful low-lying areas prone to flooding,” said Governor Hogan. “We volition proceed to intimately show the storm, and coordinate our effect crossed authorities and section agencies passim the weekend. Stay tuned to section quality stations for the latest updates, usage communal sense, and perceive to immoderate instructions section authorities volition provide.”

About 20 reservists with the Maryland National Guard and 10 vehicles are staged astatine armories successful Easton and Salisbury to assistance section agencies if needed, the politician said.

“Our Soldiers are ever acceptable to respond and are acceptable to assistance if needed,” said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Timothy E. Gowen, the adjutant wide of Maryland. “The Maryland National Guard is capable to rapidly respond with the capabilities our authorities bureau partners petition due to the fact that we bid for this.”

The National Weather Service issued a coastal flood informing for counties on the Chesapeake Bay, Atlantic Ocean and different large bodies of water, specified arsenic Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Dorchester, Cecil, Harford, Kent, Prince George’s, St. Mary’s, Queen Anne’s, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester counties, arsenic good arsenic Baltimore City.

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Rainfall of 1-3 inches is expected crossed the region, with immoderate areas receiving arsenic overmuch arsenic 3-4 inches, Hogan’s bureau said.

As of Friday afternoon, rising tides had caused flooding successful Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, downtown Annapolis and Hart Miller Island, among different areas.

The politician advised residents not to thrust done flooded roadways and to heed each warnings astir the terrible weather. Residents should intimately travel upwind forecasts and the National Weather Service for warnings.

Marylanders should know who to call successful the lawsuit of a powerfulness outage, helium said, and support devices charged truthful they tin proceed to show the weather.

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Emergency generators should lone beryllium utilized outdoors and kept astir 20 feet distant from the house, the governor’s bureau said.

CBS Baltimore Staff