Terri Medlin is New Hanover County Deputy Director of Emergency Management. She’s helped hundreds of people learn how to best prepare for storms and emergency situations. She has previously been with the Coast Guard in emergency management for the last 25 years.
“So the first thing we tell people is be informed,” She said. “Go to your vetted sources. The two we push out are readync.gov and readynhc.com.”
Those websites contain a host of resources including maps of flood plains where properties are the most at risk for flooding during storms, evacuation routes, emergency announcements and many other resources…