…for hurricane posts. The National Hurricane Study Program is a part of the “Comprehensive Hurricane Data Preparedness Study Web Site,” a joint effort of FEMA and the US Army Corps of Engineers.
The National Hurricane Study Program has been in existence for over 20 years and develops information for States and Counties to assist them in managing their resources to minimize the adverse effects resulting from hurricanes.
It’s an annoyingly “1.0″ website, with the only interactivity or action coming from a list of linked acronyms (no-one does them better – or worse – than the government) and a rotating Corps of Engineers castle. But the information linked under those acronyms is – where available – rich and useful. (There’s a huge number of ‘empty’ links for individual counties and areas, and the main website admits “it is far from complete”.) Everything from Post-Storm Assessments, behavioral data on hurricane evacuation studies, a limited number of hurricane evacuation studies (some very dated), and maps with “SLOSH” data (expectations for Sea, Lake and Overland Surge from Hurricanes) and evacuation routes and surge maps are available for certain locals.
Data from individual areas can also be found by using the “Other Links – State/County/City” link. This is where the website could really be useful. For Virginia, for example, the following information is available:
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Virginia Emergency Operations Plan, Hurricane Emergency Response |
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–HURREVAC AND DECISION ARCS |
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Hampton Roads Emergency Management Committee – Assessing Vulnerability to |
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Virginia Department of Emergency Management – The Virginia Department of |
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Emergency Management protects the lives and property of Virginia’s citizens from |
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emergencies and disasters by coordinating the state’s emergency preparedness, |
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mitigation, response and recovery efforts. |
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York County, Virginia |
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Family emergency preparedness |
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computerized model estimates the overland tidal surge heights and winds that |
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result from hypothetical hurricanes |
