All is quiet in the tropics as the Atlantic Hurricane Season is just underway.
But should the time come, you'll see some small changes in responding to a storm.
For starters, the National Weather Service is trying out a new storm surge map.
It'll change every six hours, but that comes with a warning, according to Al Sandrick of the NWS office in Jacksonville.
“Folks should not be shopping or waiting for the next map to come out and think that it may change. Please, heed the evacuation advice of your local public officials and your emergency managers,” said Scandrick.
Those emergency managers have new information in issuing evacuation orders in the form of better detailed maps and population information.
Kevin Guthrie, the Emergency Management Director for Flagler County tells us something else this plan does is ever-so-slightly expand the evacuation area in some neighborhoods west of Interstate 95. "We've got areas in Seminole Woods, areas in the P section, areas in the F section which are all west of I-95 that will see some type of inundation.”
That could come from storm surge, to just flooding from heavy rainfall.
Guthrie is working with the city of Palm Coast in notifying those living in these expanded areas to let them know they may have to go if the the order is given.
Another stumbling block in an orderly evacuation plan is getting people to listen.
Guthrie has advice for those people. “You want to prepare for the big one. The big one will probably never hit, but it only takes one.”
One like Andrew ... or Hugo ... or Katrina.
Guthrie says the new evacuation zones can also help if they ever have to evacuate because of wild fire, like the county did in 1998.
There is also an area on the west side of the county which has its own evacuation zone. While it's nowhere near the Atlantic Ocean, this area in "Zone F" is near Crescent Lake and the St Johns River system.