00:00Just one month after record shattering rainfall from tropical storm Arthur, people along the Gulf Coast are bracing for more
00:07rain from the next storm.
00:09Now is a great time to revisit your personal, family, and business hurricane plans.
00:15After the first hurricane season in a decade, without a U.S. landfall, officials are urging people to be prepared
00:22and to not let their guard down.
00:24Service members have been gearing up and training, including this hurricane readiness exercise at Kessler Air Force Base in Mississippi.
00:32The forecast calls for the overall number of storms in the Atlantic Basin to be below the historic average,
00:38but AccuWeather expert meteorologists predict three to five direct impacts to the U.S.
00:43It's very important that even in years that might be forecasted to have less named storms and hurricanes, we still
00:50need to be vigilant because it only takes one.
00:52Water is often the most lethal hazard during hurricane season, not the wind.
00:57With some storms, those impacts can reach hundreds of miles inland.
01:01U.S. Army soldiers have been busy with advanced water rescue training at the North Carolina Emergency Training Center.
01:08Officials say they helped with water rescues during the catastrophic inland flooding in the southern Appalachians from Hurricane Helene back
01:16in 2024.
01:17Now, they're putting their skills to the test to make sure they're ready for the rest of this hurricane season.
01:24For AccuWeather, I'm Bill Waddell.
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