emergency management, kevin, to produce for me the rundown of the fatalities through direct impacts of storms versus the aftermath, and in hurricane irma there were seven fatalities directly because of the storm, and there were 77 that were as a result of poststorm. a lot of that is standing water, downed powerlines, misuse of generators. so please just take precaution. obviously a ferocious storm coming in. very hazardous. very ominous. we know the life-threatening nature of that. but once the storm goes, once there s apparent calm, there are still plenty of hazards out there. so just please make sure that you re taking the proper precautions. i m happy that volunteer florida is now activated the florida disaster fund. sometimes people say, hey, we want to help, what can we do? there s really two things you can do. one, send some donations, money. the other can be donate your
to. as we start to lock at this kind of storm hitting that level of population, that level of strength, and especially because it looks like it s going to linger for days and days and the bigst impact of course is going to be that flooding impact that everyone s talking about. it has the impact, the immediate impact but it has that sort of lingering impact where people will have to recover and try to sort of put their lives pack together again. it s a really significant event and as you said by the minute it seems to be getting more dire. fast forward a week, a month, what s the poststorm impact? in fact, oftentimes that s the biggest impact of these kind of event where is of course before a storm you have the what i call the forecast factor, everybody running off to the homesteaders and getting the sandbags and the water and getting out of town. that s been amplified because of social media so, the e fact of that forecast factor, especially with a big storm like this, is amp
we re joined from aboard a coast guard boat off the coast of south carolina. morgan? reporter: hey there, guys. we are on the first coast guard rescue boat to leave the city of charleston. just to give you a sense of things, we are facing record storm surge, nine feet, that s the third in the history in the city of charleston. we ve even seen record breaking storm surge in the coast an areas. what we re doing on this particular coast guard run is going through some of these overlying areas. i want to introduce you to our lieutenant. lieutenant conscious you explain to our viewers what we re doing on this mission right now. we re doing our poststorm recovery assessment, checking for marine debris, any aides to navigation that are off station and critical infrastructure. and what the lieutenant was also explaining to me today, i m going to hold on to this railing here, what he was also explaining to me is that there s no commercial activity coming in