New Navy Hurricane Plan in the Works

After its experiences with Katrina and Wilma, the Navy is implementing a new service-wide hurricane plan. From Stars & Stripes:

The Navy is trying to come up with a plan to take care of its own ahead of this year’s hurricane season, said Rear Adm. Donald R. Gintzig.
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He said one major lesson from the hurricanes is that the Navy needs a way to reach people quickly to see how they are doing. “When you’re on a ship and someone yells ‘Man overboard!’, in a matter of minutes you can account for where everybody is and find out who’s missing,” Gintzig said. “When you get on shore, you scatter; you don’t have that same mentality.”

This is a good idea and it's about time. When I was stashed in Millington I was part of the effort to contact Navy families affected by Wilma, and it was not pretty.