Volusia County schools are faced with the same delimna that everyone else on the East Coast is facing. Can you imagine having a bus load of kids injured because a wind gust blew the bus from the road?!?

Most of the EOC's in this area on "stand by" mode. We outfitted ours today and can activate within 45 minutes, but conditions in the area right now don't require any activation. Hopefully, we learned something from the aburp shift of Hurricane Charley last year. "Be ready and don't let your guard down."

Volusia County is opening one shelter tomorrow. It will be at the County Fair Grounds and will actually be three shelters in one - persons with special needs, general population and pet facilities. The west side of the County has been dealing with flooding for weeks and can not handle any more rain at all. A very strong squall just passed over my house about 1.5 miles west of the coast, heading for the west side of the County.

Michael