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Hurricane Floyd has missed the US Virgin Island area and only slightly roughed up the Florida coastline. Floyd became a well developed hurricane and achieved a class 4 rating, as it had sustained winds of over 155 MPH. The storm hit along the coast and made land-fall on the North Carolina beaches. On Floyd's heels is tropical storm 9 which became a class three hurricane. This storm caused concern but turned harmlessly out to sea. Deployed
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A second Communications Officer Bill, departed on the morning of Sept. 15, to a second NDMS MST staging area at Fort Gordon, near Augusta, GA. On September 16th three nurses and one doctor from OH-5 was deployed. One nurse, Bobbi, came down to Gordon while Josi, Debbie, and Jim went to Jackson. The Fort Jackson group was discharged from the deployment on the 17th., when it was determined conditions were not bad enough and the Carolina MST groups were stood down. It was unfortunate that our OH-5 medical members arrived one day and departed the next. One likes to be of value and to be put into action on these deployments, but fortunately for the east coast inhabitants, Floyd turned and weakend, causing little wind damage. On Sept. 17 8:30 PM, the MST at Fort Gordon was also shut down. Bill was retained by the Office of Emergency Preparedness (OEP) and sent by convoy to Rockville, MD on the 18th. There he was busied with readying equipment for the next deployment or even a follow up deployment from the flooding caused by Floyd. As a result he has also received a lot of valuable training. Bill continued at Rockville working communications with OEP through the 20th. NC -1 has been deactivated and the OEP is now on daytime only operations as things wind down. Bill, the last of the OH-5 members to go home, did so on the 21st.
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