The current status of Hurricane Matthew is at this link provided here (10:15 a.m. Pacific Coast Time).
You can go to school now for emergency management. You can have all the book learning and then once in a job, practical experience in planning for disasters and going through disaster simulations, be they tabletop, functional or full-scale events. All the of the above will pale in comparison to the actual experience they get from this disaster response and then the recovery period, that will go on for years and years.
As emergency managers they have had to tell their spouses and children that they need to evacuate, but I'm staying here to work. They may be wondering about that big tree located next to their house, but knowing that their duty station is serving the public. As they hunker down in their EOC someone is bound to open a door to get a "feel" for how hard it is blowing and raining. The lights have gone out, the generator has kicked on (hopefully for more than 10 minutes) and you are trying to get situation reports from wherever you can find them. Social media would be a good solution.
I expect that the 911 Center is getting calls from people who decided to stay, but now are reconsidering that course of action. What seemed like a "fun storm" is now terribly frightening.
Six months from now you can look back on this event and say "I've got experience!"
