Steven Wheeler was deployed to northern Florida, even before hurricane Idalia hit. With experience in disaster recovery, he has been tasked with overseeing supply logistics.
“Shelter in place, hunker down, get through the storm safely, so that the minute the green flag went up we were able to get out into those communities,” Wheeler said, taking a few spare minutes to relay the latest information
He is also a 27-year US Coast Guard veteran and a native Floridian who lost his Key West home during Hurricane Wilma in 2005. “My first job was just counting what we had. Then, it was making sure that all the supplies that are coming in from around the country, they get received and warehoused and distributed to the operations in the communities that are providing sheltering, feeding, distributing emergency supplies like clean up kits,” Wheeler said.“I-74, the major interstate that goes through this area, which we rely on to receive supplies, it was closed twice.
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