{"id":165832,"date":"2018-11-13T16:50:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T00:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcwatch&p=165832"},"modified":"2021-09-02T13:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T20:49:06","slug":"how-spatial-analysis-kept-my-wife-safe-during-hurricane-joaquin","status":"publish","type":"arcwatch","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcwatch\/how-spatial-analysis-kept-my-wife-safe-during-hurricane-joaquin","title":{"rendered":"How Spatial Analysis Kept My Wife Safe during Hurricane Joaquin"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":651,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10392,237591],"tags":[281,271,1251,1691,961],"arcwatch_issues":[170382],"class_list":["post-165832","arcwatch","type-arcwatch","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcgis-online","category-disaster-response","tag-location-intelligence","tag-mapping","tag-public-safety","tag-situational-awareness","tag-spatial-analysis","arcwatch_issues-december-2015","arcwatch_sections-the-headlines"],"acf":{"short_description":"Jared Shoultz of Esri turned to ArcGIS technology to guide his wife, a nurse, home from her job at a hospital after torrential rains brought...","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":139892,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Hurricane Joaquin drenched the southeastern United States in October 2015, bringing record rainfall to the region. South Carolina was particularly hard hit; entire towns were flooded, and major highways were closed.\r\n\r\nAs the storm heightened to a state of emergency and the government of South Carolina issued a nighttime curfew, challenges for hospitals intensified too. Some hospitals received water deliveries or were required to boil water. Some doctors, nurses, and other staff had to work one or more back-to-back 12-hour shifts.\r\n\r\nMy wife Kelly is a pediatric nurse in Columbia, South Carolina. She was at work during the heavy rains on October 4. While trying to focus on caring for her patients, she had her own concerns. Was her family at home in danger? Was there flooding in her neighborhood? Would she be able to travel 15 miles home to Lexington safely?\r\n\r\nFrom my home office in Lexington, I used\u00a0ArcGIS Online<\/a>, part of Esri's cloud-based mapping platform<\/a>, to answer my wife's questions. All had a geographic component. By understanding the where\u2014where the impacted areas were located in relation to the hospital and where my wife needed to go\u2014I helped her avoid major road closures and flooded streets and got her home safely as soon as the state of South Carolina lifted the curfew on October 5.\r\n\r\nThe same mapping tools I accessed through a central portal can help hospitals leverage the power of location to inform internal operations, enable staff to understand what is going on in the communities where they live and work, and provide a tool to communicate with the public. Using ready-to-use mapping applications, hospitals can put the power of geography in the hands of staff on any device, at any time, to help answer critical questions and provide peace of mind."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":139902,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"