Alabama Governor Kay Ivey issued a state of emergency effective at 4:00pm Tuesday ahead of Tropical Storm Zeta’s arrival to the Northern Gulf of Mexico (on Wednesday).
The proclamation activates the National Guard, and other state agencies – to respond to the storm event if needed; it also directs the Alabama Emergency Management Agency to make the appropriate assessments of damages from the storm – and to seek any “necessary state and federal assistance for the affected areas.”
The proclamation also suspends any provision of the existing “Safer at Home” order related to the Covid-19 pandemic “to the extent that enforcement would endanger” anyone affected by the storm. But the proclamation does not modify or alter provisions related to Covid-19 orders, and urges people responding to the storm to “remain vigilant against the spread of” the novel coronavirus.
(AL.COM/www.al.com)