The State Operations Center will switch to 24/7 operations starting at 7 a.m. Tuesday, September 28. The briefing focused on statewide preparation rather than any single region, but the forecast covers large portions of the state over multiple days.
For people here, that means state resources are being pre-positioned and staffed around the clock starting Tuesday morning, whether or not floodwater ever reaches your street. Moving to nonstop operations at the state level is the kind of step that happens before a storm turns serious, not after, and it signals officials expect conditions bad enough to require sustained response capacity.
Nobody knows yet exactly how far south or west the heaviest rain bands will push. But the state has already told its own emergency teams to stop sleeping in shifts and start watching around the clock.