Two things.
One- I just talked to my brother. They staged at the Orange County Convention Center, along with just about every other unit out there. It was a good choice, the units that pushed to Tampa lost their roof and had to spend assets self rescuing.
He's spent the night since about 0200 EDT doing technical rescues and recoveries after the tornados in Fort Pierce. Apparently it's really bad there, lots of EF2 and EF3 wedge and elephant trunk tornados. He went down there to do water rescue, but that's not what the damage is from. HQ is still Orlando.
Two- the Mi ANG is deploying our CE squadron for debris clearing and search and recovery operations. We have a lot of great guardspeople who operate heavy equipment for a living that are also trained in how to search and recover people before they take the bulldozer to a structure.
