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Overnight Flood Rescues, Storm Force Marine Winds and More Emergency Management News · EM Morning Brief

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  Cedric: Good morning, I'm Cedric and this is your EM Morning Brief for Monday, November 9, 2026.
• 0:06
  Cedric: Slow moving storms over South and Central Texas produced a night of flash flooding.
• 0:12
  Cedric: National Weather Service offices in Corpus Christi, Brownsville and Austin/San Antonio issued 22 Flash Flood Warnings and five Flood Warnings across the region in the past 24 hours.
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  Cedric: In the Hill Country west of Uvalde, county emergency management and the Texas Department of Transportation reported several roads flooded and closed Sunday evening, including stretches near U.S.
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  Cedric: Highway 377, State Highway 55 and County Road 450, along with a water rescue in the Newby Hills subdivision.
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  Cedric: A Flood Watch covers the Coastal Bend and the South Texas brush country through noon Central time today, and a Flood Warning for Nueces County carries into this morning.
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  Cedric: A deep low in the Gulf of Alaska is the second major event.
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  Cedric: NWS Juneau forecasts east winds of 40 to 60 knots with gusts to 70 knots and seas of 37 to 42 feet offshore between Cape Spencer and Icy Cape, with that Storm Warning running until 9 p.m.
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  Cedric: Alaska time tonight.
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  Cedric: Across the Juneau and Anchorage marine zones, 42 Storm Warnings and 58 Gale Warnings are in force, and NWS Fairbanks carries 25 Heavy Freezing Spray Warnings for northwestern Alaska coastal waters, where vessel icing is the governing hazard.
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  Cedric: On the geophysical side, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory lowered Kilauea to Advisory and aviation color code Yellow.
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  Cedric: The Halemaumau eruption is paused after episode 56 fountaining ended on November 5, the summit is reinflating, and the observatory expects the next fountaining episode several weeks out.
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  Cedric: In the Aleutians, the Alaska Volcano Observatory holds Great Sitkin at Watch and color code Orange, where slow eruption of lava inside the summit crater continues.
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  Cedric: Let's run through the states.
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  Cedric: Alaska.
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  Cedric: Beyond the marine warnings, NWS Fairbanks has northwestern coastal waters from Motherwood Point to Cape Thompson under heavy freezing spray with northeast winds near 25 knots into Monday night, the icing regime that drives vessel and small harbor decisions along
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  Cedric: the Chukchi coast.
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  Cedric: Inland, a Winter Weather Advisory from NWS Anchorage runs through Tuesday afternoon for Anchorage, the Anchorage Hillside and Eagle River, the Lower Matanuska Valley and the northwest and southwest Kenai Peninsula.
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  Cedric: The Alaska Volcano Observatory reissued its Great Sitkin status Sunday afternoon, keeping the Watch and Orange aviation code that have stood since 2021 while lava effusion continues in the summit crater.
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  Cedric: Georgia.
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  Cedric: Recovery work continues in McCaysville after last week's flooding on the Toccoa and Ocoee drainage.
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  Cedric: The city water system is back up and running, and residents are told the water is not yet safe to drink and should be used only for flushing.
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  Cedric: Bottled drinking water is available at city hall.
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  Cedric: Fannin County reports that the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency is running a damage review, which is the step that has to finish before any federal request moves forward.
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  Cedric: Hawaii.
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  Cedric: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories for the Central Pacific on Tropical Storm Pena, which at the 11 p.m.
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  Cedric: Hawaii time advisory Sunday was centered near 11.3 north, 158.4 west, moving west at 9 miles an hour with maximum sustained winds of 45 miles an hour and a minimum central pressure of 1,002 millibars.
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  Cedric: The system continues westward well south of the Hawaiian Islands.
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  Cedric: On the Big Island, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory moved Kilauea from Watch to Advisory, a change that lowers the aviation color code to Yellow and signals a pause in summit fountaining rather than an end to the eruption.
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  Cedric: We have more to cover this morning, but first, a quick word from our sponsors.
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  Cedric: Now, back to this morning’s updates.
• 4:16
  Cedric: New Hampshire.
• 4:18
  Cedric: The Wild River Fire on the Androscoggin Ranger District of the White Mountain National Forest stands at 821 acres with containment raised to 29 percent at midday Sunday.
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  Cedric: Ninety-five personnel are assigned, with two helicopters, a dozer, two engines, eight suppression modules and an unmanned aircraft system.
• 4:38
  Cedric: More rain than forecast fell on the fire area overnight, and crews report significant progress.
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  Cedric: The fire is burning in hardwood leaf litter in steep, rugged terrain about seven miles southeast of Gorham.
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  Cedric: A closure order remains on Wild River Road, Forest Road 12, and the area north of it.
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  Cedric: Oregon.
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  Cedric: The Prospect Fire in Jefferson County, west of The Cove Palisades State Park near Culver, grew past 200 acres over the weekend.
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  Cedric: The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office lowered the Lake Billy Chinook evacuation zone from Level 2, Be Set, to Level 1, Be Ready, on Sunday evening, citing potential wind activity.
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  Cedric: The zone covers roughly 260 addresses, most of them vacation homes.
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  Cedric: Crews requested structure protection on arrival.
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  Cedric: Tennessee.
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  Cedric: In Copperhill, the Copperhill Utilities boil water advisory stays in effect.
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  Cedric: The city is pursuing federal disaster assistance for last week's Ocoee River flooding, and Polk County Emergency Management says a federal request follows only after local and state damage assessment is complete.
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  Cedric: Texas.
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  Cedric: The flooding is concentrated from the Rio Grande Valley through the Coastal Bend and into the southern Hill Country.
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  Cedric: NWS Corpus Christi ran repeated Flash Flood Warnings Sunday for Kleberg, Duval, Jim Wells, Nueces and Webb counties, NWS Brownsville warned for Cameron and Willacy, and NWS Austin/San Antonio worked a long duration event over Val Verde, Kinney and Edwards
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  Cedric: counties that extended past midnight.
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  Cedric: Flood Advisories continue this morning for Duval, La Salle, McMullen, Webb, Bee, Live Oak and Brooks counties, and for Kinney, Maverick, Uvalde and Zavala.
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  Cedric: Coastal Flood Advisories and Rip Current Statements cover the Nueces, Aransas, Kleberg and San Patricio coasts and the barrier islands into this evening.
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  Cedric: The Corpus Christi Flood Watch was extended early this morning and runs to noon Central time.
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  Cedric: Wyoming.
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  Cedric: The Foot Creek Fire, 12 miles west of Buffalo on the Bighorn National Forest, measured 683 acres and 36 percent contained as of midday Sunday.
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  Cedric: That is up from the 532 acres and 41 percent carried in Sunday morning's national situation report, so the fire gained ground and the containment figure moved backward.
• 6:55
  Cedric: The incident is human caused, started November 5, and is under a Wyoming Type 3 team.
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  Cedric: Fuels are sagebrush, grass and mixed conifer, with moderate backing behavior.
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  Cedric: Residences are threatened and road closures are in effect.
• 7:10
  Cedric: Forecasters flag dry conditions with terrain driven winds.
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  Cedric: Puerto Rico.
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  Cedric: NWS San Juan handled a flash flood event across eastern Puerto Rico on Sunday, issuing five Flash Flood Warnings and five Flood Warnings for Naguabo, Ceiba, Fajardo, Luquillo, Gurabo, Juncos and Las Piedras, with ten Flood Advisories reaching west into
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  Cedric: Caguas, Cidra, Comerio and the Utuado and Jayuya highlands.
• 7:34
  Cedric: The last Naguabo flood warning update went out at 9:30 p.m.
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  Cedric: Atlantic time.
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  Cedric: A Rip Current Statement for the San Juan metro area, the northern and northwestern coasts, Mayaguez and Culebra was reissued at 2:30 a.m.
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  Cedric: Atlantic time today.
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  Cedric: That wraps today's EM Morning Brief.
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