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I manage the design and construction department at the largest hospital in downtown Jacksonville. The combined adult and children's bed count is just under 700. 2.5 million square feet. We're directly on the St. Johns river and next to I-95. I've been in endless meetings on hurricane prep since Tuesday. We have contingency plans for our contingency plans. We started vacating our 2 community hospitals on Jax Beach and Fernandina Beach today. Those patients are moving to our 2 other large hospitals.

Here some examples of the enormity of the challenge coming with this storm.

- We received our bottled water shipment this morning. 3- 18-wheelers delivered 40 pallets of bottled water. You know how much room 40 pallets take up?

- We have 59 babies in our neonatal ICU as of today. If the storm surge rises high enough we will have to move all of them. This will take at least 24 hours.

- Our clinical staff will go on 12 hours shifts starting Saturday. When they report to work on Sat we'll have 2 complete staffs here for at least 3 days. One will work while the other sleeps. We'll be providing sleep rooms, food and showers for all staff.

Last year's Hurricane Mathew was near miss for us and we learned a lot and this year is going much smoother.