28 Sep 2017

Corps awards Martin County shore renourishment contract

Hutchinson Island residents and visitors will see work on local beaches this winter that will improve the barrier island’s resiliency to storm events and help reduce risks to infrastructure.

11 Aug 2016

Temporary emergency power team readies for hurricane season

ATLANTA, Ga. – With fair skies all over the Southeast, inside an emergency operations center (EOC) Hurricane “Noree” pummels coastal and inland Georgia. She displaces more than 30,000 individuals and leaves the state’s most-populated, economic hub crippled in the dark.

14 Jul 2014

Always ready to respond

While hurricane season is only from June 1st to November 30th, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

14 Jul 2014

Handy Hurricane Help

The wind is howling; rain is pouring through the windows; trees are falling down all around you!

29 May 2014

It's not too late to prepare

Time to dust off your preparedness plans and refresh your supplies! Hold on, you say? The latest outlook is “quiet,” -- why should I prepare? The seasonal outlook only provides insight as to the potential number of tropical storms and hurricanes, based upon current atmospheric and ocean conditions. Unfortunately, it only takes one storm to cause horrific destruction.

2 Aug 2013

Corps' Southwestern Division hosts hurricane exercise

DALLAS-The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Southwestern Division, joined by Corps Headquarters personnel, State of Texas officials, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other federal agencies, held a hurricane "table top" exercise today to help prepare for response in the event of a hurricane making landfall along the Texas Coast.

30 Jul 2013

SWD conducts Hurricane Exercise

DALLAS—The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Southwestern Division, joined by Corps Headquarters personnel, State of Texas officials, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other federal agencies, held a hurricane “table top” exercise today to help prepare for response in the event of a hurricane making landfall along the Texas Coast.

31 May 2012

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District Prepared For Hurricane Season

Charleston, SC- Friday, June 1st marks the first day of the 2012 hurricane season, which runs