Hurricane season hits early; emergency officials worry about American’s ‘disaster fatigue’

After two months of the coronavirus pandemic forcing Americans to stay indoors and face the reality of a global crisis, some emergency officials worry that people living in hurricane-prone areas could be impacted by “disaster fatigue.”

“We have disaster fatigue, they’re tired of seeing the numbers, they’re tired of seeing the news. … They’re tired,” said Bill Wheeler, the deputy emergency management coordinator of Houston, Texas, told Accuweather.

The 2020 hurricane season has already arrived with Hurricane Arthur, the first named tropical storm of the season, which hit the North Carolina coast earlier this week.

Hurricane season usually runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, but it came early this year and AccuWeather's top hurricane expert, Dan Kottlowksi, has projected the 2020 hurricane forecast is going be another busy year.

Tropical Storm Imelda in 2019 was the fifth wettest tropical cyclone, which dropped over 50 inches according to the local media outlet, the Houston Chronicle.

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