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October 6, 2022 - October 12, 2022
The Lessons of Irma: Gulfport Storm Prep Pays Off By Monroe Roark
CATHY SALUSTRI
Paw Paws and other Gulfport businesses that flooded during 2020’s Eta learned that sandbags were not enough.
City officials in Gulfport started working the week before Hurricane Ian landed in Florida to get out in front of any possible emergency situations that were likely to develop, and that diligence kept the City’s in-
frastructure whole throughout the week of the storm and helped avoid problems other municipalities had. City Manager Jim O’Reilly gave the City Council the first update about the looming storm Sept. 23, and
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the City issued a press release that same day with advice about how local residents should prepare. “At present there are numerous uncertainties related to the storm,” Storm continued on page 8
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