TOPICS: HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS
• Before the Storm
• During the Storm
• After the Storm
MAJOR DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
• Disaster Types
• Make a Plan
• During the Disaster
• Recovery
Gather Information • Know if you are in an evacuation area.
• Know your vulnerability to storm surge.
• Know your vulnerability to flooding.
• Know your vulnerability to wind.
• Understand National Weather Service forecast lingo.
• Know how to respond.
• Know and keep a list of critical contacts.
• Check your hazards risks with FEMA’s online tools.
• Re-analyze your analysis of risk.
HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS BEFORE THE STORM…BE READY!
Plan and Take Action • Be prepared for the unexpected.
• Supplies and Emergency Medical Kit.
• Availability of Essential Supplies.
• If you plan to evacuate.
• If you plan to stay.
• Be Alert.
HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS BEFORE THE STORM…BE READY!
Listen to Public Address Systems.
Stay indoors away from windows.
Use of gasoline/diesel powered generators.
Use phones only in emergencies.
Tornadoes.
“Eye-of-the-Storm.”
HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS DURING THE STORM…BE ALERT!
Listen for “All Clear” to be given.
Public roadways.
Public Utilities Assessment.
Damage assessment.
Downed power lines.
Smell of natural gas.
Carbon Monoxide hazards.
Animals, Reptiles or Snakes.
Conserve, Conserve, Conserve.
HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS AFTER THE STORM…BE CAREFUL!
Mass Casualties.
Chemical Emergencies.
Bioterrorism.
Natural Disasters and Severe Weather.
Recent Outbreaks and Incidents.
Civil Unrest.
Armed or Terrorist Attacks.
MAJOR DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
DISASTER TYPES! Tropical Cyclones – A Preparedness Guide TxDOT Hurricane Information FEMA Online Tools
Centralized Emergency Management.
Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
Mitigation.
Stay Informed.
MAJOR DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
Make a Plan…Know Your Needs!
Evacuation.
Shelter in Place.
Quarantine and Isolation.
Healthy State of Mind.
Stay Informed.
MAJOR DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
During the Disaster…Be Alert!
First Responders.
Medical Community.
Debris Removal.
Disaster Recovery Centers (DRC’s).
Stay Informed.
MAJOR DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
Response and Recovery… Obedience !
POWER OF THE INTERLOCAL CONTRACT
TEC 44.031 Purchasing Contracts
(h) Catastrophe or Emergency Purchasing
(a) Purchasing Methods (4) Interlocal Contract Method
(5) Construction Services Method, use TGC 2269
POWER OF THE INTERLOCAL CONTRACT
TGC 2269 CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
Subchapter I, IDIQ/Job Order Contracts
2269.401 (a), Maintenance, Repair, Alteration, Renovation, Remediation, or Minor Construction.
2269.401 (b), Fixed Price, Lump-Sum based on contract unit pricing applied to estimated quantities; or contract unit pricing applied to quantities delivered.
POWER OF THE INTERLOCAL CONTRACT
TGC 2269 CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
Subchapter I, IDIQ/Job Order Contracts 2269.407 Use of IDIQ/JOC only for the governmental entity
that awards the contract unless:
(1) Solicitation specifically provides for use by other entities, or
(2) The governmental entity enters into an Interlocal agreement that provides otherwise.
POWER OF THE INTERLOCAL CONTRACT
TGC 2269 CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
Subchapter I, IDIQ/Job Order Contracts 2269.404 Contractual Unit Prices:
(1) Soliciting Governmental entity specifies one or more published construction unit price books with pre-described and pre-priced task, or
(2) Requires offerors to propose one or more coefficients or multipliers to be applied to the specified unit price book or pre-priced work items.
POWER OF THE INTERLOCAL CONTRACT
Catastrophe or Emergency Purchasing allows for utilizing any method needed to accomplish the recovery work as soon as possible where pricing may not be transparent.
POWER OF THE INTERLOCAL CONTRACT
Interlocal IDIQ/JOC Procurement allows for accomplishing the recovery work as soon as possible with the exception of all pricing will be pre-determined and transparent.
Texas’ 10 Worst Disasters
• 1. September 8, 1900 An unnamed hurricane sweeps across Galveston. Fatality estimates range from 8,000 to 12,000. This still stands as the worst disaster in U.S. history in terms of lives lost.
• 2. Summer 1867 Yellow fever outbreak kills thousands in Texas. No definite list of casualties has ever been compiled, but the epidemic ranks second only to the 1900 Galveston hurricane in number of deaths
Texas’ 10 Worst Disasters
• 3. October-November 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic kills an estimated 20 million world-wide, a half-million in the United States and several thousand in Texas. El Paso, where the disease broke out first among soldiers at Fort Bliss, had 600 deaths
• 4. April 16, 1947 Explosion of SS Grand camp at the dock in Texas City, followed the next day by the explosion of the SS High Flyer, kills at least 576 persons. Thousands are injured in Texas’ second-worst non-disease disaster.
Texas’ 10 Worst Disasters • 5. March 18, 1937
Leaking natural gas explodes in basement of New London School in Rusk County. Of 600+ students and teachers in the school that day, 319 died in the explosion and resulting building collapse. Incident still stands as the nation’s worst school disaster.
Texas’ 10 Worst Disasters
• 6. September 14, 1919 A hurricane strikes south of Corpus Christi with 110 mph winds pushing a storm surge of 16 feet. The unnamed storm takes 284 lives.
Texas’ 10 Worst Disasters
• 7. August 16-19, 1915 Galveston is again hit by a powerful hurricane. Storm kills 275 and results in more than $56 million in property damage. Devastation would have been even worse but for the seawall built to safeguard the city following the 1900 hurricane.
• 8. September 8-10, 1921 Triggered by a hurricane that came ashore in Mexico, worst rainstorm in Texas history results in the drowning of at least 215 people in Central Texas.
Texas’ 10 Worst Disasters • 9. April 29, 1554
In Texas’ first historical disaster, three Spanish ships laden with silver, gold and trade goods – the San Esteban, the Espiritu Santo and the Santa Maria de Yciar – are washed ashore on South Padre Island by a spring storm in the Gulf of Mexico. As many as 200 passengers and crew members drown
• 10. August 2, 1985 Delta Airlines Flight 191 crashes on approach at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, killing 135 passengers and crew and the driver of a car on State Highway 114. The crash ranks thirteenth among the nation’s worst aviation disasters.
• Source: by Mike Cox, Texas Tales.
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Reflections and discussion
Sumatra island a day after Christmas. Hurricane Katrina
Reflections and discussion Earthquake in Pakistan (2005).
Earthquake in Sichuan Province (CHN)
Challenges we are facing today and beyond?
• Droughts/Flooding/ Hail
• Hotter Temperatures
• Fires
• Sinkholes
• Tornados/Dust Storms
• Plant Explosions
• Insurance Shortfalls
• Chemical Plant and Ship Channel Disasters
• Define Shelter In Place/Lockdown
Make a Plan
• You are the person most responsible for your safety!
• Know the risks to your safety.
– high wind
– storm surge
– flooding
• Identify a safer location if required to evacuate.
• Use Public Shelters as a last resort. Your facilities may become a shelter.
• Turn off utilities.
• Waterproof important documents and equipment.
• Have a copy of organizations Emergency Response Plan.
Make a Plan
• Evacuation Plan.
• Practicing emergency drills through staff development.
• Knowledge of what could happen.
• A fully stocked first aid kit.
• Property protection plan.
• First responders during the storm or disaster?
• Storm or disaster Is Over, now what?
Department Planning
• Pre-Planning
• Post –Immediate Responses
• Post-Recovery
• Business Office
• Child Nutrition
• Child Welfare and Attendance
• Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment
• Distribution Center/Warehouse
Department Planning
• Special Programs,
Health and Social Services
• Human Resources
• Information Technology Services
• Physical Plant Services
• Public Information
• Sales Tax • School Sites • Special Education • Transportation
Tips/Tactics
• Enough water, one gallon per day per person.
• Nonperishable food for at least three days.
• A fully stocked first aid kit.
• Flashlights.
• A whistle to signal for help.
• Spare batteries for flashlights and radio.
• Cash supply.
• Personal hygiene items
• During an Earthquake.
• Indoors During an Earthquake .
• Outdoors During an Earthquake.
• Driving During an Earthquake.
• After an Earthquake.
• During a Winter Storm.
• Preparation
• After a Storm Has Passed
Tips/Tactics • Prepare for tornadoes.
• Strike suddenly with little or no warning.
• Warning signs
o An unusual greenish or black color in the sky
o Hail or heavy rain followed by either dead calm or a fast, intense wind shift
o A visible funnel cloud that has not yet touched the ground
o A loud, continuous rumble that does not fade after a few seconds, as does thunder
o A sound like a waterfall, freight train or jet
• Fire Is Coming
o Close gas valves and turn off pilot lights.
o Listen to radio reports from the national and local authorities.
o If the fire is near, close doors and windows to prevent drafts.
o If You Are Caught in a Fire.
o After the Fire Has Passed:
Tips/Tactics
• Recovering From Water Backup.
• What Causes Mold?
• Preventing Mold.
• Dealing with Mold.
• Preventing Water Damage When Leaving.
• Preventing Frozen Pipes.
• What to Do When Pipes Freeze or Burst.
Make a Plan Important Numbers
• Emergency Operations
Center
• Storm Information Hotline (only when activated)
• United Way Information
• Red Cross
• Emergency Medical Service
• Salvation Army
• Insurance providers
• District or organization’s call list.
• Employees assigned as first responders contact info.
• Utility providers contact.
• CP contractors contact information.
• Know organizational policies for mitigation and repair process.
After the disaster?
• Stay away until authorities say it is safe to return.
• Do not travel unnecessarily.
• Inspect your Facilities for safety hazards.
• Do not put yourself at risk.
After the Storm – Electrical Restoration.
• Power plants, transmission lines and substations.
• Main lines to critical infrastructure functions.
• Other main lines to bring the largest number of customers.
• Neighborhood (block-by-block) restoration.
Contacts • http://www.ready.gov/texas
• http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/prepare/ready.p
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• American Red Cross: 1-800-733-2767, redcross.org
• AEP Texas: 713-659-2111, 1-866-223-8508 (outage reporting), https://www.aeptexas.com
• City of Edinburg http://www.edinburgvolfd.org/hurricane.htm
• Hidalgo County OEM http://www.co.hidalgo.tx.us/index.aspx?NID=85
Contacts
• FEMA: 1-800-621-3362, fema.gov
• National Flood Insurance: 1-866-395-7496, fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program
Contacts
• National Weather Service, Houston/Galveston: 281-337-5074, www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx
• Texas Windstorm Insurance Assoc.: 1-512-899-4900, twia.org
• TxDOT travel information: 1-800-452-9292, www.txdot.gov/inside-txdot/division/travel.html
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