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Resident reports storm surge flooding and difficulty reaching emergency management
Summary
A St. Mary's County resident described storm-surge flooding on St. George's Island roads and said he could not reach county emergency management contacts to report conditions, urging improved communication and responsiveness.
Roy Fetters of Damron said recent storms produced higher-than-expected storm surge at St. George's Island, reporting over a 3-foot surge that flooded two areas of St. George's Neck Road and caused saltwater intrusion that could impede school buses.
Fetters said he attempted to contact the county's emergency management or emergency services director repeatedly but received no return calls, and he expressed alarm that officials might not have been aware of local flooding. He distinguished emergency services (operational response) from emergency management (planning) and said the lack of returned messages undermines public ability to report urgent local conditions.
Fetters asked the board to ensure public communications and contactability of emergency management or emergency services staff; the transcript records his concern and specific impacted locations but does not include a staff response or a commission directive in the meeting record.
