One thing I remember about my parents was that every so often they would share some much needed advice. They also offered, more than once, words of wisdom. Id like to share some of those words with you. Some of those words were popular and have never lost their value. Ill continue to share these periodically and you are welcome to pass them on to your loved ones. Here are five that you might want to jot down and share with others:

Do not disregard your mistakes.Love your work, then you will find pleasure in mastering it.Dont criticize others when you are angry with yourself.Keep a stash of extra batteries.Be yourself.Its almost time for the snowbirds to head south. Florida is a popular place to spend the winter months. Several couples from our church head south right after Thanksgiving. Some have a winter house down there and some have a mobile mansion that they close up in the spring. If you are considering having a mobile home as your winter address in the south, here are a few things youll want to consider:

Look for mobile homes for rent in resort communities. Such lodgings often prove to be more economical than a vacation house.A good idea is to rent before you buy. Once a mobile home is installed, it cant be easily moved to another location. Before making a long-term commitment for a space in a mobile home park, live there as a renter for a few months.Buy for pleasure, not for investment. Mobile homes, unlike conventional homes, do not appreciate in value over time. In that respect, they are more like cars than houses.For sometime now, Ive admired General Colin Powell. I dont care what political party he is most familiar with, but if he were to run for President of the United States, hed have my vote. Ive read his autobiography and he has had many bumps in the road to get where he is today. The smartest thing he ever did was to refuse to run for the highest office in the world. He was just too smart. General Powell was quoted as saying, The young black captain just back from Vietnam thirty many years ago, who couldnt get a hamburger at a Georgia restaurant unless he went to the back window, has become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. All of us have to remember the brave people who went before and upon whose backs we climbedAs we climbed on the backs of others, so must we allow our backs to be used for others to go even higher than we have. He spoke these words during a commencement ceremony.

Table manners are pretty much a thing of the past. I feel that manners in general have been placed on the back burner. There are some parents who were never taught proper manners, as a result they have no idea on how to pass them on to their youngsters. Here are just a few manners I was taught. They arent all that important, yet I still think of them when I see that they arent used:

Take your hat off at the table. It shouldnt be that cold inside the house.Turn off your cell phones. Dining together is a great time for family conversations.Chew with your mouth closed and dont talk with your mouth full.Through light and joy is the world opened up, revealed for what it is: ineffable beauty, unending creation. ~ Henry Miller

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Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Allen Elizabeth Theatre. (Photo by Tom Ryder)

Oregon Shakespeare Festival artistic director Nataki Garrett(she/her) had plenty to do on the day the Almeda wildfire started last month. Theatres around the country have been shut down since March due to COVID-19, forcing many companies to move any programming they have online. The end of May brought another major national reckoning for all citizens, including artists, with the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Every system that exists in the United States was placed under a microscope, and theatres have faced their own reckoning, with artists demanding equity in the ranks, and many theatres coming forward with solidarity statements.

Garrett had a full slate of meetings in her calendar for Sept. 8. But as the fire began to threaten Ashland, Ore., after powering through the nearby cities of Phoenix, Talent, and the outskirts of Medford, it was clearly time to change course.

Garrett and her new leadership team, which includes executive director David Schmitz(he/him) and associate artistic director Evren Odcikin (he/him), were ready to mobilize, with their own to-go bags placed in their cars in case of a mandatory evacuation. The specific jobs the three were hired to do would have to wait for another day. Making the theatre companys facilities the epicenter of a refuge from disaster was the companys new priority.

It was very clear to us that our role is to pivot and be supportive of the community we live in, said Schmitz, who came to Ashland on Aug. 24 after serving in multiple positions, including executive director at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago for 15 years. Like any moment, its critical to articulate focus first. I think we did that, and then it was a matter of figuring out where we could best utilize our resources.

Southern Oregons Rogue Valley is home to a wide-ranging community of citizens. In addition to the hundreds of people who make their employment with the company, which boasts three theatres that seat as few as 270 and as many as 1,190 patrons, it is also home to a large immigrant community and others seeking affordable housing and employment in industries such as agriculture, hotels, and restaurants.

Wildfires are nothing new to the state or to OSF patrons. In 2018, nearly a million acres burned across Oregon, California, and Washington, which caused the cancellation and displacement of a combined 26 performances. The companys Green Show, a free event that runs six nights a week, was also canceled outright that same year. But this has been a West Coast fire season unlike any other in recent memory. Fires have devastated lives, homes, and property. A battering of wildfires in Northern California covered the entire San Francisco Bay Area in an apocalyptic orange hue, an ominous sky that made a valiant attempt on Sept. 9 to camouflage the Golden Gate Bridge.

The day before, the Almeda fire started in Southern Oregon and was driven by high winds and low humidity, ultimately destroying at least 2,357 structures and killing three people in the course of a week, according to the Jackson County Sheriffs Office. Those structures include more than 2,000 residential units: houses, mobile homes, and apartments.

Many of those who lost homes were furloughed in March due to the pandemicpeople who served the OSF community in multiple capacities, as ushers, costume shop workers, and goodwill ambassadors, to name a few. A number of OSFs resources not only went to support the Southern Oregon community at large, but to provide respite for many on their own staff. On the companys website, 22 crowd-sourced fundraisers for various company members are posted for those who want to donate.

The combination of the wildfires and COVID-19 formed a perfect storm for what would have been Garretts inaugural season, which looked beautiful on paper. She had arrived in Ashland with a fantastic theatre pedigree. An alumnus of the prestigious California Institute of the Arts with a MFA in directing, Garrett spent 10 years at her alma mater, serving as the associate artistic director of the CalArts Center for New Performance. Her passion for new work saw her lead world premieres from playwright heavyweights such as Lauren Gunderson, Matthew Lopez, Lauren Yee, Jos Cruz Gonzlez, and Katori Hall. She took the helm of OSF as the sixth artistic director of a company founded in 1935; she is only the second woman, and the first person of color, to hold the post in the organizations history.

Yet her transition to leadership in the midst of a crisis has a precedent of sorts, one rooted in her upbringing in the blue-collar East Bay Area town of Oakland, Calif.

My dad was a Civil Rights worker and I come from a family of organizersseeing them create spaces to enfranchise people got in my blood, said Garrett. All of my influences growing up sculpted me, folded in from my family and neighbors, which informed my upbringing. Theres a responsibility to take care of people around you, and I dont know many people from Oakland that dont feel that way.

Faced with actual natural disaster, of course our approach has to be how we can be of service. That feels very clear in this moment and that part is actually easy.

Odcikin, who left his home in San Francisco and followed Garrett to Ashland to join the Rogue Valley community and live full-time as an Oregonian, is not shy about stating the fact that his post at OSF is a dream job. He admits to being sad that Garretts first season at the helm has gone the way of other shuttered seasons around the theatre community, but his unwavering hopes for the future and the companys current mission do not let him get too down.

Im not going to mince my words, to not say I have to go through moments of mourning for the season we didnt have or the seasons we are not going to do in the next year, said Odcikin, who was born and raised in Turkey and has directing credits across the nation. Having said that, maybe its because I come from a smaller-theatre background, maybe because Im an immigrant, maybe because Im just an eternal optimist, what I want in this position for myself and what I want for the community and nationally is to be of service. Faced with actual natural disaster, of course our approach has to be how we can be of service. That feels very clear in this moment and that part is actually easy.

Service to the community meant turning the entire OSF campus, including theatres and rehearsal rooms, into a location where folks could have access to little things: a place to get inside from the smoke, enjoy a meal, charge their phones. Carpenter Hall, a space often used for events and educational programming, was transformed into a robust donation center open six days a week. The center is thriving, providing a critical lifeline to the community.

In an ironic turn of events, even the pandemic did its part to help. For those who lost housing, the company had plenty of apartment space that was available because visiting artists are not present for the cancelled season. According to Schmitz, the company has been able to house 60 families in those empty units, some of those being long-term situations.

I was on the phone with key members of the community within hours of that fire and we were working together to problem solve, which is the best way to get to know somebody.

While Garrett has not been able to showcase much of who she is as an artistic director just yet for OSFs patrons, her new community is getting to know her in a much more important context, which is simply fine by her.

In my first year, people have no clarity of who I am artistically because I am focused on the community and emergencies which has included the pandemic and the crisis that followed, Garrett said. People have lost everything they had in these fires, and what they get to learn is about who I am as a human and our shared humanity. David, Evren, and I all arrived at the same time, and the people this theatre company brought into the community are as impactful as the art they brought us in to create.

Any time there is a pioneer or a first in a position as high-profile as leading the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, there will be pushback, whether the decisions made are artistic or crisis-related. If its someone who is Black, Indigenous, or a person of color (BIPOC), the pressure is only amplified. Odcikin, who is present for Garretts every artistic and practical move, is bullish on what her appointment means and what he will do to support her. Most critically, he has seen firsthand what this moment has revealed about her character.

I am in a unique position, and its such a privilege that I get to support a Black woman in this sort of position, said Odcikin. And because of the enormity of what were facing, the difficulty of making sure that a woman, a Black woman, really succeeds in this kind of position became very acute for me. Its something Im thinking about a lot these days.

Supporting each other and supporting their adopted community has become the most important aspect of running a theatre company in these times. To that end, building relationships has accelerated rapidly.

I was on the phone with key members of the community within hours of that fire and we were working together to problem solve, which is the best way to get to know somebody, said Schmitz. That really accelerated my onboarding and relationship-building to the community. Im someone that is more known in the community because of all this.

In a normal year, the meetings that Garrett, Schmitz, and Odcikin would have had might have been all about season planning, budgets, and play development. But the needs of the community where theyll make theatre took on a new centrality. And in the intense, emotional week that began in early September, Garrett learned some valuable lessons about the team she assembled.

On a leadership team, you need alignment, and I will say thiscrisis tells on you and basically turns the light on in the room, said Garrett. It shines light in every corner and crevice. The benefit of clarity in crisis is that I learn who is on my team and whos in line with the direction Im trying to head.

David John Chvez (he/him) is a Bay Area-based theatre critic and reporter. He is the vice-chair of the American Theatre Critics Association. Twitter: @davidjchavez.

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In each installment of The Artists, T highlights a recent or little-shown work by a Black artist, along with a few words from that artist putting the work in context. This week, were looking at a piece a recent commission for the Dallas Museum of Art included in the exhibition To Be Determined by Jammie Holmes, whose paintings, often featuring scenes and people from his own life, mine the Black American experience.

Name: Jammie Holmes

Age: 36

Based in: Dallas

Originally from: Thibodaux, La.

When and where did you make this work? In 2020, created in my new studio in the Dallas Arts District.

Can you describe whats going on in it? The piece depicts four men playing cards in a mobile home that is similar to the mobile homes my family owned in Thibodaux. What I wanted the audience to see was a scene of emotional introspection for four different men, and from that have the audience wonder what it is these men are thinking about. One man is holding a playing card and could be thinking about his future, and one figure has a T-shirt that depicts a lost loved one. I wanted to bring the audience into a quiet space, and have them question what these men are thinking about in this moment of silence. The men are all together, but each is thinking and reflecting, lost in his own thoughts.

What inspired you to make this work? I was inspired by what my everyday life was like when I was a young man in Thibodaux. I wanted to show that this same way of life is still taking place today people worrying about their future, their lost loved ones and whats next for them.

Whats the work of art in any medium that changed your life? I am very inspired by the work of Gordon Parks because of his ability to capture moments that could be dark for some and happy for others. One image in particular, Drinking Fountains, Mobile, Alabama (1956), features a Black woman drinking at a water fountain labeled Colored Only. Something about this image really sparked an interest in me to start exploring figurative work, and my first figurative painting was an interpretation of this photograph. I still love this early work because it was so driven by Parks.

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New York, Sept. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Global Home Health Hubs Industry" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05956971/?utm_source=GNW ACSs offer solution to two of the major challenges faced by current healthcare system i.e. high cost and affordability; and timely access to healthcare services. Non-hospital based alternate care sites are emerging as the next frontier in reducing costs of patient care. Digital technology in this regard is playing a key role in enhancing the reliability of ACSs, creating meaningful point-of-care guidance, and providing an alternative to the conventional labor-intensive model of primary care. ACSs also play a pivotal role in continuity and coordination of care in pursuit of the ultimate goal to achieve integrated people-centered health services. Growing healthcare burden and the resulting surge in demand for medical services is overwhelming the healthcare system resulting in inefficient delivery of care globally. The scenario is driving the importance of ACSs. Also, the ongoing reforms towards a more sustainable value based pay-for-performance healthcare model are helping widen the role of ACSs, given their ability to offer an alternative to expensive hospital services. As digital transformation continues to snowball through the healthcare industry, ACSs will continue to acquire increased importance and significance in providing comprehensive care and also collaborative planning of care and shared clinical decision-making with primary care givers.

Home Health Hub is the revolutionary step forward in supporting continuity and care coordination between ACSs and primary healthcare systems. The technology is geared to support remote patient monitoring, tele-health, tele-medicine, and virtual healthcare delivery. Home Health Hub is defined as a combination of hardware and software systems that allow the creation of a medical hub for monitoring, acquiring, and transmitting patient data from point-of-care facility to healthcare professionals in the primary care sector. Home care agencies, nursing homes and assisted living facilities utilize a wide range of home healthcare technologies and represent "hubs" for collecting and transmitting patient data. They therefore are major end-users of home health hub products and services. However, rapid proliferation of digital health technologies are bringing healthcare even closer to the patient, making the patient`s home the point-of-care facility. Smart homes are helping drive the trend towards connected home-based self-care. A smart home hitherto valued for its unrivalled convenience and comfort is now gaining popularity for its potential to enhance the home healthcare experience. They will play an increasingly important role in the evolution of digital, remote, connected and virtual care systems. Consumer-oriented smart homes with technologies targeted for home infotainment and security will now act as portals for healthcare delivery. While medical wearables and smartphones enable remote patient monitoring and telemedicine services targeted at disease management, smart homes can help expand the functionality of digital health services from just disease management to health management. In other words, IoHT and smart homes when combined with cloud will revolutionize digital health and will expand the role of digital health beyond elderly care and health monitoring to other areas of wellness, nutrition, exercise, sleep, medication monitoring, mental, social wellbeing, managing pregnancy and prenatal health, among others. The United States and Europe represent large markets worldwide with a combined share of 73.7% of the market. China ranks as the fastest growing market with a CAGR of 34.8% over the analysis period supported by the fact that the country leads the world in adoption of digital health technologies by healthcare professionals as well as patients. The blistering pace of adoption of self-monitoring has result in the country becoming the world`s largest and most lucrative wearables market.

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I. INTRODUCTION, METHODOLOGY & REPORT SCOPE

II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1. MARKET OVERVIEW An Introduction to Home Health Hub Home Health Hub: Current Market Scenario and Outlook While Developed Regions Remain Primary Revenue Contributors, Developing Regions Emerge as Hot Spots for Future Growth World Home Health Hub Market: Percentage Breakdown of Revenues for Developed and Developing Regions for the Years 2019& 2025 World Home Health Hub Market - Geographic Regions Ranked by CAGR (Revenues) for 2018-2025: China, Asia-Pacific, USA, Latin America, Canada, Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Japan Standalone Hubs Constitutes the Largest Product Segment Global Home Health Hub Market Share Breakdown by Product & Service: 2019 VS 2025 Bright Prospects Ahead for Mobile Hubs Wearable & Mobile Home Health App Downloads by Region for the Years 2017, 2019 & 2021 Global Mobile Device Market by Type (2010-2020): Percentage Breakdown of Shipments for Phablets, Non-Phablet Smartphones, and Tablets Smartphone Penetration (as a Proportion of Total Mobile Users) by Region for the Years 2018 and 2025 High-Acuity Patient Monitoring Steers Home Health Hub Deployments Hospitals: Largest End-Use Market Impact of Covid-19 and a Looming Global Recession

2. FOCUS ON SELECT PLAYERS AMC Health (USA) Cambridge Consultants (UK) Capsule Technologies, Inc. (USA) Cisco Systems, Inc. (USA) eDevice (France) Encompass Health Corporation (USA) Honeywell International Inc. (USA) Ideal Life, Inc. (Canada) Inhealthcare (UK) Lamprey Networks (USA) MedM, Inc. (USA) MyVitalz?, LLC (USA) Philips Healthcare (USA) Resideo Life Care Solutions (USA) Vivify Health, Inc. (USA)

3. MARKET TRENDS & DRIVERS Increased Emphasis on Remote Patient Monitoring Creates Fertile Environment for Growth of Home Health Hub Market Rise of Healthcare IOT Further Augments Remote Patient Monitoring World IoT Market: Number of Connected Devices (in Million) for Years 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022 Remote Patient Monitoring Seeks Role in Healthcare Big Data Programs Patient Non-Adherence to Prescribed Medication Promotes Market Growth Shortage of Healthcare Professionals & Need to Reduce Healthcare Costs Puts Spotlight on Home Health Hubs Rapidly Evolving Role of Home Telehealth Instigates Broad-based Opportunities Advent of Sophisticated Healthcare IT Tools Pave Wavy for Wider Use Growing Lenience towards Value-Based, Patient-Centric Care and Outcomes Augurs Well High Tech Sensors & Wearable Med Tech Innovations Amplify Capabilities of Home Health Hub Focus on Reducing Hospital Readmissions Provides Impetus to Home Health Hub Solutions Smart Homes as Portals for Healthcare Delivery Help Expand the Addressable Opportunity for Home Health Hub Products & Services Number of Smart Homes Worldwide (In Million) Home Health Hub: A Boon for Immobile Patients Rising Population of Aged People and their Vulnerability to Chronic Diseases: Strong Business Case Global Aging Population Statistics for the 65+ Age Group in Million by Geographic Region for the Years 2019, 2025, 2035 and 2050 Expanding Middle Class Population Supports Growth in Developing Regions Global Middle Class Population (in Millions) as a Percentage of Total Population: 2005, 2015, 2025 & 2035 Internet Connectivity and Expanding Penetration Rate Influences Demand for Home Health Hubs Rapid Increase in Penetration Rate of Internet: 2018 Vs 2009 Issues & Challenges Security & Privacy Concerns Lack of Awareness & Availability Reimbursement Issues in the US

4. GLOBAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE Table 1: World Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2025

Table 2: World 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets for Years 2020 & 2025

Table 3: World Current & Future Analysis for Standalone Hub by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2025

Table 4: World 5-Year Perspective for Standalone Hub by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2020 & 2025

Table 5: World Current & Future Analysis for Mobile Hub by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2025

Table 6: World 5-Year Perspective for Mobile Hub by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2020 & 2025

Table 7: World Current & Future Analysis for Services by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2025

Table 8: World 5-Year Perspective for Services by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2020 & 2025

Table 9: World Current & Future Analysis for High-Acuity Patient Monitoring by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2025

Table 10: World 5-Year Perspective for High-Acuity Patient Monitoring by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2020 & 2025

Table 11: World Current & Future Analysis for Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2025

Table 12: World 5-Year Perspective for Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2020 & 2025

Table 13: World Current & Future Analysis for Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2025

Table 14: World 5-Year Perspective for Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2020 & 2025

Table 15: World Current & Future Analysis for Hospital by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2025

Table 16: World 5-Year Perspective for Hospital by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2020 & 2025

Table 17: World Current & Future Analysis for Payers by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2025

Table 18: World 5-Year Perspective for Payers by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2020 & 2025

Table 19: World Current & Future Analysis for Home Care Agency by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2025

Table 20: World 5-Year Perspective for Home Care Agency by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2020 & 2025

Table 21: World Current & Future Analysis for Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2025

Table 22: World 5-Year Perspective for Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2020 & 2025

III. MARKET ANALYSIS

GEOGRAPHIC MARKET ANALYSIS

UNITED STATES The United States: Major Market for Home Health Hub Solutions Market Analytics Table 23: USA Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 24: USA 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 25: USA Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Type - High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 26: USA 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 27: USA Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 28: USA 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities for the Years 2020 & 2025

CANADA Table 29: Canada Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 30: Canada 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 31: Canada Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Type - High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 32: Canada 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 33: Canada Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 34: Canada 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities for the Years 2020 & 2025

JAPAN Table 35: Japan Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 36: Japan 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 37: Japan Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Type - High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 38: Japan 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 39: Japan Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 40: Japan 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities for the Years 2020 & 2025

CHINA Rapidly Growing Market for Home Health Hub Solutions Market Analytics Table 41: China Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 42: China 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 43: China Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Type - High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 44: China 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 45: China Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 46: China 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities for the Years 2020 & 2025

EUROPE High Growth Opportunities Identified in Europe Market Analytics Table 47: Europe Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Geographic Region - France, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Russia and Rest of Europe Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2025

Table 48: Europe 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for France, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Russia and Rest of Europe Markets for Years 2020 & 2025

Table 49: Europe Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 50: Europe 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 51: Europe Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Type - High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 52: Europe 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 53: Europe Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 54: Europe 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities for the Years 2020 & 2025

FRANCE Table 55: France Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 56: France 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 57: France Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Type - High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 58: France 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 59: France Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 60: France 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities for the Years 2020 & 2025

GERMANY Table 61: Germany Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 62: Germany 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 63: Germany Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Type - High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 64: Germany 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 65: Germany Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 66: Germany 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities for the Years 2020 & 2025

ITALY Table 67: Italy Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 68: Italy 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 69: Italy Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Type - High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 70: Italy 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 71: Italy Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 72: Italy 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities for the Years 2020 & 2025

UNITED KINGDOM Table 73: UK Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 74: UK 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 75: UK Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Type - High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 76: UK 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 77: UK Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 78: UK 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities for the Years 2020 & 2025

SPAIN Table 79: Spain Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 80: Spain 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 81: Spain Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Type - High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 82: Spain 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 83: Spain Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 84: Spain 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities for the Years 2020 & 2025

RUSSIA Table 85: Russia Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 86: Russia 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Product & Service - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Standalone Hub, Mobile Hub and Services for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 87: Russia Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by Type - High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 88: Russia 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by Type - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for High-Acuity Patient Monitoring, Medium-Acuity Patient Monitoring and Low-Acuity Patient Monitoring for the Years 2020 & 2025

Table 89: Russia Current & Future Analysis for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2025

Table 90: Russia 5-Year Perspective for Home Health Hubs by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Hospital, Payers, Home Care Agency and Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities for the Years 2020 & 2025

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She sits in her sunroom looking out over the cornfield browning in the early fall on a cloudy day with her dogs sitting nearby. She doesnt take days like this for granted. Sue Slauson spent 66 days at UnityPoint Health-Meriter, some of them in the ICU and on a ventilator after being diagnosed with COVID-19 at the end of May.

This is a nice view, its really nice when the corn is gone, Slauson, a retired teacher of the Lake Mills Area School District, said last week.

At the beginning of the pandemic Slauson and her husband Maury Martin were in Hawaii, a typical vacation spot for them.

We were just beginning to hear about it, she said. She noticed a lot of Asian people wearing masks when they went to the airport and wondered if they should be concerned.

When they came home the pandemic was really starting to pick up.

We were super careful, she said. We didnt go out and when we did go shopping for food we would go really early and we wore masks.

She doesnt know how her, and her husband got the virus.

Slausons friend and Martin had COVID at the same time as her, but they dont know how they were infected exactly.

The couple started having symptoms the weekend after Memorial Day when they got together finally with their families for an outdoor event, thankfully none of those in attendance got the virus.

We were keeping our distance, she said. We planned this big get together and we had our two mobile homes at Woodland Beach and we rented this large cabin so that they could cook, and it had big outside tables and we could all be outside.

They noticed the coughing first.

I just thought it was allergies, she said.

On Sunday night Martin got really tired and wanted to lay down. On Monday they started feeling uncomfortable and lost their sense of taste and smell by that night.

On Tuesday we were spiking fevers and we called to have a test at Fort Hospital and we were both swabbed.

By Wednesday Slauson had a high fever and her blood saturation went down. She went back to the ER and they sent her back home after she stabilized.

By the next Monday she was spiking fevers up to 104 and her blood saturation was in the low 80s.

I was like a zombie, she said. Maury had it, but it wasnt as bad.

On June 8 she went back to the ER, this time to UW near Sun Prairie. They tested her again and she was sent to Meriter. The virus had settled into her lungs. She had pneumonia.

They took me to the floor for COVID patients and I didnt even last three hours there, and they took me to ICU.

Slauson felt adamant she didnt want to be on a ventilator.

The doctor came in with forces behind him, another doctor and nurses, and he said, You have to decide right now.

They had to put it in between her fevers spiking.

I was taking so much oxygen. I was at 90% oxygen, she said.

He said you have to decide right now whether youll go on a ventilator or the other decision is how we can let you die comfortably.

At that point she let them put it in.

I thought I would sleep through it and I would be off of it. Its not like that at all. Its horrible, absolutely horrible.

She was aware and could answer questions with a pen and paper, she said.

They even had me doing Facetime with Maury and my son.

She said it felt very surreal to be on the ventilator.

I can understand why people want to pull it out. Its very uncomfortable. I had a very sore throat and youre so drugged and you cant talk.

While on the ventilator she said she was having some hallucinations.

I thought they had gone through my ribs to clear out my lungs. They didnt do that.

Slauson was on the ventilator for six days, but said it felt like a month.

After the ventilator came out Slauson says she thought she would be able to get her strength back and go home.

She went back to a general floor and was there for one night and went back to the ICU.

I was there for weeks.

The goal was to get her oxygen level down, so she could go home.

Slauson says she pushed herself to get there.

The doctors and nurses at the hospital told her their patients dont normally push themselves like that.

I asked what they do, and they said they lay in bed and cry. What good is that going to do? You have to work at it, she said with determination.

She worked with physical therapy and occupational therapy, doing more than what they asked.

I was doing more than what they were teaching me to do.

Perhaps one of the worst parts of her hospital experience was being alone.

You could have no visitors, not my husband, nobody, even though he already had COVID.

For her family the only glimpse of Slauson while she was in the hospital was by Facetime.

I cant imagine what it would have been like before that.

The outpouring of love she has seen from friends has really affected her.

Theyve really been wonderful, she said through tears.

She tried to keep friends updated on Facebook.

I had people from Florida to Alaska, East Coast to Hawaii and everywhere in between that were trying to contact me.

It was a struggle for her to get down to 10 liters of oxygen, which was what she needed to do to go home. There was a possibility she could have gone to a rehab facility, but she was on too much oxygen to go there as well.

They thought I would do better at home.

A friend of the couple gave them an electric wheelchair to help Slauson get around her home, which she was using up until a few weeks ago, now she just uses it to go outside.

That was the only way I could get around the house. I couldnt walk it.

Shes come a long way, but the journey isnt over. Right now, she is on six liters of oxygen during the day and there is still a lot of inflammation in her lungs.

I have to go in for a breathing test and the pulmonary doctor said we will enjoy what you are doing as well as youre doing it, but we will also talk about, not that were going there, but well talk about a lung transplant, because there is damage that will not be able to be fixed.

Slauson is hoping to eventually get to the point where she can be off of oxygen.

There are a lot of misconceptions about the recovery from COVID-19, says UW Healths chief quality officer, Dr. Jeff Pathof, an emergency medicine physician.

Either you have COVID or you are recovered, well recovery isnt an end point, its a journey, he says. What were seeing with COVID, that isnt typical of other viruses like influenza, there are these lingering symptoms that go on for months.

He said patients whove had COVID early on in the pandemic are still dealing with lingering symptoms.

It seems to be the more severe your battle with COVID-19 is, the more likely and more pronounced these lingering symptoms are. So much so, people started studying them.

Patients continue to report having chest tightness, saying they cant breathe like they used to, and they report brain fog or not being as clear minded as they would like to be, significant fatigue and persistent muscle pain.

Researchers found some startling facts, Pathof said, after looking at imaging of the lungs, they saw a pattern in the lungs consistent with scaring that in other conditions is often permanent, as Slauson described.

You could develop scaring in the lungs that doesnt reverse itself and you may not have the ability to exert yourself or do the things you did pre-COVID because your lungs dont function as well as they used to, he said.

Another study looked at people who are recovering from COVID-19, who no longer have the virus in their system, but they have persistent inflammation of their heart tissue, called myocarditis.

Inflamed heart muscle doesnt work as well as normal heart muscle. It reduces your ability to exert yourself and do the things you did before, Pathof said. We have people for months now have had this persistent inflammation in the heart and we dont know if its going to go away or not.

He said one of the most disconcerting things for patients is not only do they have to battle COVID-19, but they have to deal with the lingering effects on their body.

Recovery

A constant cough and her 50-foot oxygen line to her concentrator in the house keep her on a pretty tight leash, as does her energy level, but she did get out to the patio to clean up the flower gardens last week, which felt like a big accomplishment.

For Maury the experience of having his wife in the hospital with COVID has been very stressful.

I think the experience is worse than losing a spouse, which I have, he said. Martin was his first wife caregiver. She had COPD and was on oxygen.

Im in good hands, Slauson said. I hate to have him go through that again.

When your spouse passes you at least have closure. This went on all summer, Martin said.

He did his best to stay busy while Slauson was in the hospital by exercising, doing yard work and taking care of the house.

Slauson had no underlying conditions before she caught the virus.

I was very, very healthy. I thought, well, OK, so we get it and get through it and then we are immune. Itll be OK. I wasnt expecting to be in this position.

Her doctor told her she was one of the worst cases they had who lived through COVID.

I felt mad, like why did I get it, when I was being so careful, Slauson said.

I dont feel like I want to blame anyone for it, Martin commented. Its out there and you dont know how your body is going to react if you get it.

The couple asks everyone to do their part and wear a mask and socially distance to protect themselves and others.

Locally a coalition of over a dozen community groups has come together to keep COVID-19 out of Lake Mills, called Keep COVID out. The group is asking for the entire Lake Mills community to commit to the Three Ws: watch your distance, wash your hands, and wear a face covering.

Keeping our schools open is best for kids and we are all about kids, said Dave Wendt, of the Lake Mills Optimists. We need to make sure that our staff and students are safe in order to keep schools open, added Sandy Whisler, Citizen Advocates for Public Education (CAPE). Police Chief Mick Selck, President of Lake Mills Rotary said, As members of a community it is incumbent on all of us to work together to keep COVID out of our schools. The more precautions we all take, the slower COVID spreads in our community and thus our schools.

Lake Mills schools could become a hub for transmission if the community isnt careful, the group stressed.

We all want to be out and about and normal, but we cant be, Slauson said. Everything they are saying as far as the science goes people need to listen and nobody wants to.

Pathof stressed, People need to dig deep and really come together and say the only way we get back to normal and beat this pandemic, until we have a vaccine or some other miracle treatment, is we have to socially distance and physically distance and we have to wear masks. We have to do those things because if we dont this only gets worse, it doesnt get better. There is no upside right now that is worth further propagation of this disease, more people getting sick, more people having their life changed forever. We need to do this.

In our country we are so used to our freedoms and expect our freedoms we are not willing to give them up for the good of others, Slauson said.

Though her COVID journey isnt over, shes keeping a positive attitude about her prognosis.

You just have to get through it and laugh whenever you can.

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Blackstone is turning its attention to one of the most recession-resistant sectors of real estate.

The giant asset manager is planning to buy about 40 mobile-home parks from Summit Communities for about $550 million, according to Bloomberg. Most of the properties are in Florida, the publication reported, citing confidential sources.

Blackstone will make the investment through Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, also known as BREIT. Real estate investment trust Sun Communities also made an offer for the mobile-home communities.

Blackstone shelled out $200 million for seven mobile home parks largely in Florida and Arizona earlier this year, according to Bloomberg.

Large investment firms like Brookfield and Sam Zells Equity LifeStyle Properties have been eying mobile homes in recent years won over by the sectors high returns and limited supply.

There are just 6,250 mobile home parks in the U.S., according to a 2019 Cushman & Wakefield report. And despite their name, mobile homes are not that easy to move, and their occupants often cannot afford the upfront costs to relocate. That leaves them vulnerable to rent increases that boost profits for owners of trailer parks.

More than $800 million worth of such properties traded in the second quarter of this year, an increase of 23 percent from a previous year, according to JLL, Bloomberg reported. [Bloomberg] Keith Larsen

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Portland Battalion Chief John Derr drove south through the night on Interstate 5, leading a caravan of four fire engines and one smaller brush rig straight to a fire charging toward the southern edge of Medford.

They pulled in at 1:15 a.m. that Wednesday, barely 24 hours after winds on Labor Day whipped up fires all along Oregons west side.

They had no time to rest.

The 20 firefighters in the Multnomah Task Force 30 got a quick briefing on the side of a road from local fire bosses.

Then they pulled past burning blocks of mobile homes, about a quarter mile west of I-5, and got to work.

Seven hours later, they had helped save 80 to 100 homes in the Medford Estates mobile home park as bright orange flames consumed other homes and downed trees just feet away.

It was a dramatic start to 12 days on duty for the task force -- one of 38 structural firefighting squads activated by the state fire marshal as more than 1 million acres in Oregon burned from south of Portland to the California border and from Lakeview to the coast. Nine people have died in the fires and another 11 people are missing, according to the state.

The team slept in tents set up in a Medford middle schools football field before shifting to safeguard a residential road in rural Jackson County near the South Obenchain fire, northeast of Medford. There, they set up controlled burns as two helicopters scooped up water from a nearby pond to drop on the encroaching wildfire.

In the next days, they relieved exhausted fire crews in Talent and Phoenix, responding to the cities' regular dispatch calls. By weeks end, they were near Cave Junction, helping assess homes and other buildings near the Slater fire straddling the Oregon-California line.

Pat McAbery, 54, a 28-year Gresham firefighter on the task force, remembers how emotionally spent he was after hed been sent to Californias Camp Fire in Paradise in 2018. By the time his crew arrived, there was little they could do beyond shutting off water and gas utilities, clearing roads and putting out any flare-ups. The deadliest fire in California history had killed 86 people and leveled more than 13,900 homes.

This time, he said he was grateful the crew reached Medford to contribute on the front lines.

Were doers. Were helpers. We want to save things, McAbery said.

"Sometimes you never see that positive side, never feel that reward,'' he said, speaking from the seat of a fire rig outside the Illinois Valley Fire District Station in Selma, near Cave Junction. Yes, theres horrible destruction, but in some way, we had made a difference.

Martin Buchert, a resident of Medford Estates, took this photo just before he and his family evacuated from their mobile home about 4:40 p.m. on Tues., Sept. 8, 2020. He was stunned to learn the next day that his home was still standing.

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The task force of Portland, Gresham and Port of Portland firefighters was activated at 4:45 p.m. on the Tuesday after Labor Day.

With Portland Fire Bureau Lt. Gordon Hartung and Derr at the lead, they headed to the Clackamas County community of Colton, located between Estacada and Molalla, to check water supplies and do fire spotting.

But they had barely checked in when they got the call to move on to Medford instead.

Instructed to drive Code 3 with full lights and sirens to the freeway, they raced through dark smoke and past the clogged traffic of evacuees through Colton and Woodburn before reaching I-5.

As they got near Salem, they were stunned by an eerie pitch black all around them from the boiling wildfires that were consuming miles of forestland and small towns up the Santiam River to the east.

They stopped once to grab truck-stop sandwiches and reached Medford in the pre-dawn hours.

Medford Estates is a 244-space mobile home park, with streets all named after trees set along a paved trail and greenway surrounded by mature foliage that attracts hummingbirds, owls and finches. A tennis court, pool and a central community space where people played bingo completed the development. Latino residents make up about half of the community.

The task force members joined crews of local firefighters from the Medford Fire Department, Jackson County Fire District No. 3 and Oregon Department of Forestry. They were told to look out for big floating embers stoked by the fierce winds -- and keep them from spreading to other structures. They rushed to wet down any firebrands that were landing on fences and bushes.

McAbery and Gresham Fire Lt. Anthony Foster maneuvered their brush rig to the neighboring Bear Creek Greenway, a stretch of bike and walking paths that had been burning north from Ashland.

A brush rig is a more maneuverable pickup-sized truck with a smaller water tank and pump.

Through thick smoke, Foster spotted a cluster of mobile homes that seemed untouched in the back of the development as fire raged in front.

We think we have about 10 homes that havent burned back here. Can we get somebody back there? Foster radioed to Derr. I think we can save some of these homes.

Foster, 35, a 16-year firefighter, and McAbery used a chainsaw to cut through a back fence, hoping to drag their one-inch-wide hose line through. But they realized there were many more homes that could be saved on the other side, so they cut out a bigger hole in the fence, shoveled out some dirt and four-wheeled their rig into the mobile home park.

There, they dragged their 200-foot-long hose where they could, flying to water down homes that hadnt yet burned as fire destroyed other property, incinerated cars and playground structures and torched trees just steps away.

The task force leaders walked down a dirt road that threaded past rows of melted mobile homes to get a better look.

Theres not 10 homes. Theres not 20 homes. There ended up being 100 mobile homes that hadnt been burned, Derr said.

We decided to put in one of our engines and test the water a little bit. We dont want to get big rigs deep into a fire that we cant get them out, he said. "We soon determined it was worth the risk and slowly brought another rig in and eventually we had all of our rigs in there protecting that mobile home park.''

The winds had shifted no longer coming from the south but pushing in from the east, Derr said.

The winds were in our favor, he said.

At first they used one fire hydrant and then hooked up to several hydrants on the same grid. A city water pump was operating at only 70 percent.

By daylight, the hydrants in the mobile home park had gone dry. That forced Portlands fire engines to drive out to a main road, fill up their 500-gallon tanks from a hydrant there and shuttle the water back, Derr said.

The team members were wearing their much thinner wildfire uniforms lightweight flame-resistant yellow shirts and green pants -- rather than their typical thick turnout gear and could feel the intense heat.

You have things burning to the ground a few feet away from somebodys home, McAbery said. Wed been better off in our turnouts, but youre in a mode of you got to act now.

They had arrived at Medford Estates at 2:45 a.m. and kept at it through 8:30 a.m.

They rotated people in and out of a staging area that local firefighters had provided for water breaks and breakfast lots of scrambled eggs and egg burritos.

We worked as one big team and were able to stop the fire in that mobile home park, said Derr, 51, a 24-year firefighter. Were used to doing one house or two houses. Ive never been on a fire on that large of scale in a residential area.

***

Just before 8 a.m., Telia Fogle drove into Medford Estates to check on the 27-year home of her parents. She made her way past Fir Street, then Birch, Willow and Oak streets.

The fire had reduced so many of the homes to smoldering piles of charred debris.

When she got to slot 183 on Cedar Street, her parents' place still stood.

When I showed up there they were still putting fires out behind the home, Fogle said.

She saw Portlands fire engines.

I couldnt believe it. It was just so fast that they got here, she said.

The flames had melted the skirting of her parents' home and warped a vinyl fence. One shed had caught fire. But that was it.

Im grateful that these firefighters came from all over the state to help, Fogle said. When I saw those firefighters behind my dads house, I was amazed that someone was here from Portland.

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Homes saved in Medford Estates mobile home park in southern Medford

***

Over the next several days, Multnomah Task Force 30, whose members range in age from their early 20s to 58, went wherever it was asked to go.

From the Almeda fire, the crew headed to the South Obenchain fire, northeast of Medford.

This time, they were dealing with a total different animal, Derr said.

They fought to protect homes along a rural gravel road off Buttes Fall Highway, southeast of Crater Lake National Park.

They used controlled burns starting fires in low grass around houses -- that would head toward the main fire coming down the hill. That created a large scorched space between the homes along Derby Road and the main fire, removing potential fuel that could feed the blaze.

Its literally fighting fire with fire, McAbery said.

They watched as two helicopters filled up buckets from a pond beside a mans home at the end of the road to drop on the burning ridge above.

By last Sunday and Monday, they turned to help Jackson County Fire District No. 5 in Talent and Phoenix, answering dispatch calls to give those firefighters a well-deserved and much-needed break after fire had devastated the two towns north of Ashland.

We ran their district for a day and a half, Derr said.

It was a challenge with different radio frequencies. The dispatchers ended up alerting two local battalion chiefs, who would relay the calls to Derrs team. The crew then used a PulsePoint app, which tracks emergencies in an area and helps map the locations.

They handled about 10 calls, including one where a power company nicked a gas line putting in a power pole. The firefighters slept on cots and recliners in the stations workout room.

They also helped assess fire damage to properties by filling out maps, noting properties in green if there was no damage, repairable homes in yellow and destroyed homes in red.

By this past Thursday, theyd worked several days in and around Cave Junction near the Slater fire, which has been burning on the Klamath, Six Rivers and Rogue-Siskiyou national forests in Siskiyou and Del Norte counties in California and Josephine County in Oregon.

They patrolled the area to do whats called structural triaging south of Cave Junction, noting homes in evacuation zones that are surrounded by lots of brush or have gutters filled with needles and how easy they would be to protect or not.

Each day, the crew isnt sure what theyll be assigned to next. Theyre available for up to 14 days, before they time out, Derr said.

Our story continues, he said Thursday night.

On Friday, they were set up in a defensive mode along the north edge of the Slater fire, between the fire and a residential neighborhood.

By evening, they got the green light to head home. They planned to hit the road around 7 a.m. Saturday and head north for the six-hour trip back to Portland.

Learning in the fire business is completely by experience, McAbery said. The value to our home community is when it hits the fan at home, we can bring back what weve learned.

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Another step has been taken that might eventually lead to Columbus city water being made available to Garden City residents.

Approval has been given by the Bartholomew County Commissioners for a local firm, Administrative Resources Association (ARa), to move ahead to apply for a $500,000 grant to bring municipal water to the Garden City Mobile Home Community LLC.

If funds can be obtained through the Indiana Office of Community and Urban Affairs, a line will be connected to a water treatment plant, and extend across property owned by Columbus Regional Health before it reaches Garden Street, which is in reach of the mobile home park, ARa Municipal Program manager Trena Carter said.

The quality of drinking water in the small town southwest of downtown Columbus has been a concern for several years. The Garden City Groundwater Plume site was placed on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys National Priorities List in December 2013.

This has been something that has been needed for some time, commissioners chairman Carl Lienhoop said.

While the mobile home park is hooked up to the city sewer system, it is not served by the citys water utility at present. Instead, the homes are served by shared wells where pollution has been a concern for several years.

Two years ago, federal environmental officials said they would spend $320,000 to clean up trichloroethylene (TCE) in the plume, and to continue with filtering water at several private wells at properties there. TCE, which is an industrial solvent, has been known to be a cause of cancer.

Although water tests taken in 2018 did not turn up any form of health risk, former Columbus Utilities Director Keith Reeves said at the time those tests might be inconclusive because some residents dont want their wells tested. He cited trust issues among residents who fear they will be forced to connect to city utilities and pay installation costs that exceed their means, said Reeves, who was succeeded by Scott Dompke after Reeves retirement.

Going door-to-door to a number of Garden City homes, most homeowners said they were satisfied with the shared wells after they installed a granular activated carbon (GAC) filter system. But some said they would prefer hooking up to city water if the cost was within their means.

Carter said her organization, which is working with the county commissioners, Columbus City Utilities and the mobile home park, is still in the preliminary stages of requesting the money.

There are a lot of processes that need to happen before we will be ready to go to full application, Carter said. But if everything aligns, we hope to apply for the funding by this November. If not, we would look at something for the first of next year.

The decision to have ARa seek funds for the water line comes one month after the Garden City Mobile Home Community used a split Columbus City Council vote to their advantage.

Because there was no council decision, the park was allowed to follow the recommendation of the planning commission to rezone the 1-acre site that is capable of holding up to eight new mobile homes.

But in that same month, the mobile home park agreed to planning staff recommendations that include not bringing in new mobile homes until after the city of Columbus annexes the property.

Other conditions the planning staff placed on the mobile home parks request include:

The subject property is to be combined with the existing mobile home park parcel and developed with shared access and amenities.

No new homes may be occupied until public water service has been established.

A 6-foot tall fence shall be constructed along the railroad tracks.

Direct access from the subject property to State Road 11 shall be limited to emergency and construction use only.

Additional State Road 11 right-of-way shall be dedicated along the frontage of the subject property.

A minimum of 3,400 square feet of open space, including picnic and playground amenities, shall be provided.

Having the water line run to the mobile home park is expected to be split between 46 or 47 residences, mobile home park owner Dana DelSignore said last month.

When asked if a line carrying city water might make it more affordable for other Garden City residents to hook up to city water, Carter said the answer to that question is beyond her level of expertise.

There may be a possibility others could come on, but thats not what this project is about, Carter said. Its about getting water to the mobile home community.

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At least 377 people were rescued from flooding in a Florida county.

Floodwaters rushed through parts of Alabama and Florida on Wednesday, turning roads into rivers, submerging cars and sending several out-of-control construction barges into waters along the Florida Panhandle as Hurricane Sally dumped a torrent of rain.

The surging water reached higher than five feet in Pensacola, Fla., and slammed a barge into a section of the Pensacola Bay Bridge that was under construction, destroying part of it, Sheriff David Morgan of Escambia County said.

The Pensacola area has already seen more than two feet of rainfall from Sally, and meteorologists said that up to 35 inches of rain could fall in coastal communities.

Sally made landfall at around 5 a.m. Central time over Gulf Shores, Ala., as a Category 2 hurricane and eventually weakened to a tropical depression after it passed through the Florida Panhandle, but its deluge was not forecast to let up any time soon. As of 9:30 p.m. Central time, the center of the storm was in southeastern Alabama, with its heavy rain extending into western Georgia. It was continuing to crawl northeast at about 9 miles per hour.

Catastrophic and life-threatening flooding occurring over portions of the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama the National Hurricane Center warned.

In and around Pensacola, several barges came loose and were floating out of control through the choppy waters, including one with a crane that was at one point heading toward the Escambia Bay Bridge. Sheriff Morgan said he had considered all kinds of ways to stop the barge as it neared the bridge, even getting permission to fire 40-millimeter grenades at it before determining that the extreme step would be too dangerous and likely would not work anyway. Luckily, he said, the barge ran ashore and never reached the bridge.

With water and downed trees making roads impassible, and with still strong winds, residents were told it could be hours before emergency services were dispatched in force. At least 377 people were rescued from flooded areas in Escambia County as of Wednesday afternoon, officials said, and at least one shelter had been opened to handle the crush of evacuees. Two rivers in the county are expected to overflow, leading to more flooding.

Mayor Tony Kennon of Orange Beach, Ala., said that one person had died as a result of the storm and that another was missing. Officials would perform minimal search-and-rescue operations at night because of dangerous conditions, including debris in the water, he said.

As of 9 p.m. Central time, 275,000 electricity customers in Alabama and 240,000 customers in Florida were still without power, prompting the National Weather Service in Mobile and Pensacola to issue warnings about the proper use of generators. At least seven people died from carbon monoxide poisoning from generators during Hurricane Laura last month.

Videos from residents and local media outlets showed images of homes that had been ripped apart by the howling winds, boats torn from their moorings and power lines downed in many towns and cities. In Foley, Ala., just north of the hurricanes landfall, images showed a destroyed mobile home and a door that appeared to have been yanked by wind from a house.

And everywhere, water.

In recent days, the storms projected point of landfall had veered by nearly 200 miles. It had once been expected to rake over the remote, low-lying areas of southeastern Louisiana and possibly reach beyond the New Orleans metropolitan area. Instead, it was the more populated areas around Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola that bore the brunt of the storm.

Blocked roads and standing water made driving difficult in Alabama.

Sally left much of south Alabama in a chaotic mess on Wednesday as it dumped rain and battered the region with dangerous wind gusts.

Mobile, which had virtually shut down, avoided the brunt of the storm but still saw high wind gusts that caused the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel, a high-rise, to sway and shudder as if it were in an earthquake. Outside, debris from damaged buildings cluttered walkways, including big panels that had flown off a valet parking overhang.

On Interstate 65, a few drivers inched their way across the high twin-span bridge north of the city that crosses the Mobile River. On Alabama State Route 59 a highway that ends at Gulf Shores large trees completely blocked northbound lanes, forcing drivers onto the opposite side of the road. Smaller roads were choked with fallen branches and leaves.

In Loxley, Ala., a convenience store and gas station was crowded with motorists fueling up. Inside, residents bought 12-packs of beer, cigarettes and potato chips.

Down the road, Tim Booth, 62, a semi-retired truck driver, was standing in his front yard, a mist of rain falling on him while he chopped up a downed fir tree with a buzzing chain saw. Mr. Booth said he and his wife and 19-year-old son had thought about heading to a relatives brick house in Pensacola, but they decided to ride out the storm given the predictions of relatively low wind speed.

But the wind was stronger than anybody thought, and Mr. Booths family spent a harrowing night in their mobile home. We really started feeling it after midnight, he said. Man, it just unloaded. It felt like Ivan a Category 3 hurricane from the 2004 season.

Rick Rojas

Nobody saw it coming.

Hurricane Sally looked like it was going to hit New Orleans. Then Gulfport, Miss. Then Mobile, Ala. But after making landfall in Gulf Shores, Ala., it took a right turn on Wednesday morning and plowed into Pensacola, Fla.

The city knows about the fickleness of hurricanes. But this one surprised nearly everyone. It was worst by the waterfront, where a pretty square called Plaza Ferdinand was a tangle of fallen magnolia and oak branches.

Nearby, two 72-foot catamaran ferries, used to shuttle tourists out to the Gulf Islands National Seashore, were banging wildly against black metal fencing near the marina. Frank Rawley, the captain of one of the boats, was improvising a way to tie them up. He said the dock to which they had been tethered was gone. Everything got ripped away, he said. It just tore everything away.

Sandy and Peter McDavid, the owners of the Palafox Wharf Reception Venue, a 19th-century building next to a marina, had come down to inspect the place, which if often rented for wedding receptions. A big blue sailboat had smashed into the railings of their deck. Water from the street had seeped onto the wooden floor on the ground level, and a skylight had blown off and let rainwater in, soaking the carpet on the second floor.

We werent expecting it, Mr. McDavid said. We thought it was going to go to Alabama.

Richard Fausset

Omi Yoder and her husband moved to the Bristol Park subdivision two months ago. They bought a brick house with white siding generously sized but not too fancy on a cul de sac next to a creek.

It is a place to nest: Ms. Yoder is due to have a baby her first child, a girl in about a month. On Wednesday, the place filled up with about two feet of water. The nursery they had been working on was ruined.

They had seen the water rising up from the street and were able to scramble and move some things upstairs. But the water ruined carpets and other things, which they and some friends were dragging out to the curb in the late afternoon.

Ms. Yoder did not know if the cars in the garage would start. They got water, too. She figured they would have to redo the floors. And start over again on the nursery.

She described her emotional state succinctly: Overwhelmed.

As raging wildfires burn vast swaths of the West Coast, and as the molasses-slow Hurricane Sally pounds the Gulf Coast, scientists say we are witnessing, again, the role of climate change in exacerbating natural disasters.

True to predictions by government scientists in May, this hurricane season has been among the most active on record, with 20 named storms so far. With the National Hurricane Center rapidly running out of letters of the alphabet for subsequent storms, ones after that will be based on the Greek alphabet in the likely event there are two more.

Scientists know that climate change has made hurricanes wetter, because as the atmosphere warms it can hold more moisture. But there is evidence that it can make them slow down, too, enabling the storms to pelt land with heavy rains and winds for longer.

Studies by Michael E. Mann, a climate scientist at Penn State, and others suggest that increased Arctic warmth reduces the temperature differential between that region and the tropics. This leads to a slowing of the jet stream, which affects other circulation patterns in the tropics but also in mid-latitude areas like North America.

Our work indicates that climate change is favoring this phenomenon, Dr. Mann wrote in an email. It likely plays a role in the decreased translation speed of landfalling hurricanes.

Though conservative media and President Trump have disputed any suggestion that climate change is a factor in the West Coast wildfires, scientists have identified it as a primary cause.

Hurricane Ivan hit Pensacola on the same day 16 years go.

Sally made landfall on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Ivan, a Category 3 beast that made landfall just west of Gulf Shores on Sept. 16, 2004.

Sept. 16 does not seem to be a good day for Pensacola, Chief Deputy Sheriff Chip W. Simmons of Escambia County said in a briefing on Wednesday.

Ivan wreaked more havoc with its powerful winds, while Sallys rain and storm surge appeared worse, the deputy sheriff said, describing low-lying parts of western Perdido Key being underwater on Wednesday, with fallen trees and electricity poles.

The 2004 hurricane season was deadly. Hurricane Ivan killed 57 people in the United States and 67 people in Caribbean countries and caused billions of dollars in damage.

The storm also collapsed a portion of the I-10 Escambia Bay Bridge over Pensacola Bay, an eerie parallel to an accident during Sally. On Wednesday, the Pensacola Bay Bridge which was under construction and is known as the Three Mile Bridge sustained significant damage when a construction barge repeatedly slammed into it.

A couple of days ago, Pensacola officials hoped the worst part of the storm might miss them.

Then all of a sudden it takes a bit of a jog, Deputy Sheriff Simmons said, describing the storms path. And it stayed with us, and it stayed with us, and it stayed with us.

Still recovering from Hurricane Laura and now bracing for Hurricane Sally, residents along the Gulf Coast and the Eastern Seaboard warily watched reports of other major storms developing in the Atlantic.

On Monday, before Tropical Depression Rene dissolved, there were five concurrent named storms in the Atlantic, which has not happened since 1971, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Three are still active.

Hurricane Paulette packed winds of 100 miles per hour about 450 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada, and threatened to bring dangerous surf and rip current conditions to Bermuda, the Bahamas and parts of the Atlantic Coast.

Tropical Storm Teddy was gaining strength about 865 miles east of the Lesser Antilles and was projected to near major hurricane strength as it approaches Bermuda over the weekend.

And Tropical Storm Vicky had maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour about 710 miles west of Cape Verde, though it was not projected to threaten land and was expected to weaken in the coming days.

Reporting was contributed by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Johnny Diaz, Richard Fausset, Patricia Mazzei, Rick Rojas, Marc Santora, Daniel Victor and Will Wright.

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Hundreds Rescued as Floods From Hurricane Sally Hit Florida and Alabama - The New York Times

Emergency officials in Dauphin Island, Alabama, had to pick up about a dozen people stranded as sand and ocean water began to inundate part of the island Monday ahead of Hurricane Sally.

Mayor Jeff Collier said emergency officials drove a Humvee to pick up 12 to 15 people, incluidng an infant, the Associated Press reported.

At least four cars were lost.

We werent able to move the vehicles, they were already stuck in the sand, Collier said.

(MORE: Forecast Track for Hurricane Sally)

Parishes and counties along the coasts of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana ordered evacuations, closed beaches and made last-minute preparations Monday as Hurricane Sally strengthened into a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.

My message to my fellow citizens is this: If youre in a flood-prone area, go ahead and get out now.," Pascagoula, Mississippi Mayor Steve Demetropolous told The Weather Channel. "Go stay with friends or family or go stay at a hotel, but get out now. If you have a chance of being flooded, please dont stay at home.

Sally is expected to bring life-threatening storm surge and flooding rain when it makes landfall, possibly as a Category 2 storm, overnight Tuesday into Wednesday morning.

President Donald Trump approved disaster declarations for Louisiana and Mississippi.

Gov. Kate Ivey declared a state of emergency for Alabama on Monday morning. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves had declared states of emergency for their states over the weekend.

"Those on the Gulf Coast know a flood and heavy rains can be just as deadly as tropical winds," Ivey said.

In a briefing Monday morning, Gov. Reeves said, "Over the last 18 hours, a lot has changed."

Reeves said Sally, instead of making landfall in Louisiana, was now projected to hit Biloxi, Mississippi.

"The slowing of the storm is concerning," Reeves said. "The longer it stays out in the Gulf of Mexico, the higher the likelihood is it continues to grow in size and scope and severity."

Here are some of the steps states are taking to prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Sally.

"Right now, Im doing what everybody else that has any sense would do," said Al Ward as he stocked up on propane Sunday at a hardware store in Gulfport, Mississippi. "Im being prepared for the worst and hoping it will be as it has been earlier this year. We dodged the bullet."

Ward told WLOX-TV he has dealt with a hurricane every year since moving to the coast.

"If you want to enjoy the pleasures of whats down here in South Mississippi, there are hazards that go with it as well," he said.

(MORE: Full List of Evacuation Orders Ahead of Sally)

Ward was one of many in south Mississippi preparing for Sally's arrival.

Evacuation shelters opened in Jackson, Hancock, Harrison counties, Pearl River and Stone counties.

Hancock County Emergency Management issued a mandatory evacuation beginning at 7 a.m. Monday "for all low lying areas, residents living on rivers, river inlets, bayous, creeks and in travel trailers." Also, modular homes, mobile homes, homes under construction and/or partially constructed homes were under evacuation orders.

Harrison County ordered mandatory evacuations "south of the Harrison County Sand Beach sea wall, including the 26 miles of Harrison County Sand Beach, as well as low-lying areas" in the county.

Jackson County asked residents in low-lying areas to evacuate voluntarily. The request applied to people who live along rivers, river inlets, bayous, creeks, and in travel trailers, modular homes, mobile homes and homes under construction.

Officials in Pascagoula, Long Beach, Gulfport, Pass Christian and Biloxi told boat owners to move their vessels out of city marinas and harbors, WLOX reported.

(MORE: Hurricane Sally Tracker)

Many schools along the coast announced they would dismiss students early Monday or close altogether. Districts that planned to close included Hancock County, Bay Waveland and Long Beach.

Officials in Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties set up sandbag stations, WXXV-TV reported.

Rupert Lacy, Harrison County emergency management director, said U.S. Highway 90 will become impassable after sunset Monday into Tuesday and Wednesday, the Biloxi Sun Herald reported.

Lacy also said water will back up into the Bay of Biloxi, Bay of St. Louis and area rivers, lakes and low-lying areas.

Gulf Islands National Seashore closed islands and mainland areas of the national park in Florida and Mississippi because of Sally. The Davis Bayou Area and Mississippi islands including Petit Bois, West Petit Bois, Horn, Ship, and the NPS-owned portion of Cat Island closed at 5 p.m. Saturday. Campers at the Davis Bayou campground were told to evacuate by 9 a.m. Sunday.

In Alabama, officials are recommending evacuations in parts of Baldwin County, along the Gulf of Mexico and on the southeast edge of Mobile Bay. The advisory includes Gulf Shores and other beach communities, as well as some inland areas.

Gov. Ivey closed all the state's beaches effective at 3 p.m. Monday, and she recommended evacuations for all residents of flood-prone areas south of Interstate 10 and for all non-residents.

Sand and water surround vehicles on Tonty Court on Dauphin Island in Alabama as Hurricane Sally headed toward the Gulf Coast on Monday, September 14, 2020.

Mobile County public schools and Gulf Shores City schools closed Monday, WALA-TV reported. The University of South Alabama moved Monday and Tuesday classes online.

The Baldwin County Commission had an emergency meeting Monday morning to discuss preparations for Sally.

(WATCH: Why Slow-Moving Tropical Systems Are the Worst)

On Dauphin Island, Collier told residents to be ready for the storm.

"Once the conditions change, you dont have a chance to tweak your plan, so we just need to go ahead and be prepared for the worst-case scenario, and then as they say hope for the best," Collier said.

Monday morning, Collier announced on his Facebook page that flooding was already happening on the west end of Dauphin Island.

Gulf Shores lifeguards closed the waters to the public Sunday night because of the high risk of rip currents, WALA reported.

In New Orleans, the mayor issued a mandatory evacuation order for residents living outside of the parish's levee protection system: Venetian Isle, Irish Bayou and Lake Catherine. Those areas could see storm surge of 7 to 9 feet, the National Weather Service said.

The city's Sewerage and Water Board said all 99 of the city's drainage pumps are available for service. The other two were under repair and expected to be up and running ahead of any potential impacts from the storm.

The town of Grand Isle, Louisiana, on a tiny barrier island in the Gulf, also issued a mandatory evacuation order to begin at 9 a.m. Sunday. Mayor David Camardelle already had asked campers, RVs and boats to leave the island beginning at 8 a.m. Sunday.

Mandatory evacuations were ordered in the Jean Lafitte area of Jefferson Parish, too, including Barataria and Crown Point.

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All of Jefferson's 192 drainage pumps are operating, Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng said Sunday.

"What happened in the past doesnt matter," Lee Sheng said at a news conference. "We handle every threat the same ... You cant say, 'Im tired of this, I dont want to do it.' It doesnt matter what kind of year we've had ... we still have a major threat in front of us."

Mandatory evacuations were ordered in St. John the Baptist Parish for Pleasure Bend and low-lying areas of the parish north of Interstate 10 in LaPlace, including Frenier, Peavine and Manchac. A voluntary evacuation order is in place for the rest of the parish.

Plaquemines Parish ordered mandatory evacuations for the entire East Bank of the parish and on the West Bank from Phillips 66 Alliance Refinery to Venice. A voluntary evacuation is in place from the community of Oakville to the Phillips 66 Alliance Refinery.

President Matthew Jewell ordered a mandatory evacuation for all St. Charles Parish residents, saying Sally could cause widespread power outages and cut off the availability of crucial and emergency services.

"We want residents to heed our warnings and make preparations to leave now," Jewell said Sunday.

(WATCH: What the NHC Director Had to Say About Sally)

A mandatory evacuation is in effect south of the Leon Theriot Lock in Golden Meadow and all low-lying areas of Lafourche.

Several parishes announced schools would be closed Monday and Tuesday, including Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist and Terrebonne parishes. In Orleans Parish, all Monday courses will be delivered online. No face-to-face courses will meet on campus on Monday. All Tuesday classes (in-person, online and hybrid) are canceled.

Loyola University will have classes Monday until 4 p.m. but will be closed Tuesday. The University of Holy Cross, Nunez Community College and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary all plan to close.

The Louisiana National Guard tweeted that more than 1,200 soldiers and airmen along with 51 high-water vehicles, 32 boats, eight helicopters and two engineer work teams were being deployed in southeast Louisiana in preparation for Sally.

Sally arrives less than three weeks after Hurricane Laura came ashore in Louisiana as a Category 4 storm on Aug. 27.

Santa Rosa County and Escambia County schools closed Monday because of Sally, the Pensacola News Journal reported.

The two counties could see 10 to 20 inches of rain through Wednesday.

The University of West Florida announced all of its in-person classes are either going fully remote or are canceled from noon Monday through Tuesday. Pensacola State College also closed Monday.

In Pensacola, the county seat of Escambia, the mayor declared a state of emergency on Monday.

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Clinton and Randal Ream, with their son Saylor and daughter Nayvie, and two neighbors Aubrey Miller and Harmony Morgan, at their home in a small trailer park in West Pensacola, Fla. The area received a lot of damage after Hurricane Sally came through as a Category 2 hurricane in Pensacola, Fla., on Sept. 16, 2020. (Bryan Tarnowski for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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