Director of the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) Ms. Michelle Forbes, while discussing NEMO’s preparation for the upcoming hurricane season, spoke about looking for additional shelters, which will be hurricane-ready.
“We may have persons in emergency shelters for some time, certainly people in Sandy Bay may not be able to return soon, I can’t give a timeframe, so we definitely now have to look for additional emergency shelters,” she said.
The NEMO Director said that the process of locating these shelters had already started.
“We actually have started that process, we have to look for additional emergency shelters that are up to hurricane standards, because some of the shelters that we use for volcanic emergencies are not hurricane standard, so we have to move those persons now out of those particular shelters into shelters that have been designated as hurricane shelters.” Ms. Forbes said.
The hurricane season begins on 1st June 2021.
