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Hurricane Preparedness - Coggle Diagram
Hurricane Preparedness
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The revised UTHSC-H plan was tested with Hurricane Galveston. UTHSC-H buildings withstood the winds, and power outages and flooding were avoided in some places.
Hurricane Ike
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- no staff were present due to SOPs emergency plans
-Animals had been stored in the basement, and were not reached in time to be saved.
over 1 million gross square feet of space for teaching, biomedical research, support functions, and animal care were out of service for months
3,200 faculty, staff, and students were displaced for more than a month.
Recovery resources for UTHSC-H included insurance claims, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds, institutional administrative and financial support, no-cost grant extensions, and financial supplements from the NIH granting agencies on a case-by-case basis.
Animal losses are particularly difficult to document unless each animal is tracked individually, which is not realistic
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Preparation
• Decide beforehand where to go if you must evacuate your home. Essential personnel, and particularly ride-out
team members, should have plans for the shelter or evacuation of family and pets.
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Ensure that research staff maintain inventories of research laboratories and freezers, with a backup copy at a secondary location.
Publish storm preparation strategies and procedures and make them readily available in an emergency response plan for use by all staff members.