the 2013 hurricane season is only 5 months away

TRACKS OF CINDY, DENNIS, KATRINA, RITA, AND WILMA

LESSONS FROM PAST HURRICANE SEASONS

HURRICANES ARE DYNAMIC LABORATORIES FOR

LEARNING AND CATALYSTS FOR BUILDING CAPACITY

FOR DISASTER-INTELLIGENT & DISASTER-RESILIENT

COMMUNITES

HURRICANE DISASTER LABORATORIES

ONE-HUNDRED YEARS OF HURRICANE DISASTER LABORATORIES

2012’S 19 ATLANTIC BASIN STORM TRACKS

NAMED STORMS IN 2012

ALBERTO - Tropical storm; May 19 BERYL - Tropical storm; May 27 CHRIS – Hurricane; June 21 DEBBY – Tropical storm; June 23 ERNESTO –Hurricane; Aug 3 FLORENCE –Tropical storm: Aug 5 GORDON –Hurricane, August 16

NAMED STORMS FOR 2012

HELENE –Tropical Storm, Aug. 19 ISAAC – Hurricane, August 21 JOYCE –Tropical Storm, Aug. 25 KIRK –Tropical Storm. Aug. 27 LESLIE –Hurricane, Sept. 5 MICHAEL –Hurricane, Sept. 5 NADINE – Hurricane, Sept. 12

NAMED STORMS IN 2012

OSCAR – Tropical Storm, Oct. 4 PATTY – Tropical Storm, Oct. 11 RAFAEL – Hurricane, Oct. 12 SANDY – Super Storm, Oct. 22 TONY – Tropical Storm, Oct. 24

TWO OF 2012’S STORMS WERE ESPECIALLY

NOTABLE

ISAAC -- A RAINMAKER FOR THE ENTIRE GULF COAST

SANDY – A SUPER STORM

SANDY---FROM AN ORDINARY TROPICAL

STORM TO A HURRICANE TO A ONCE- IN- A- CENTURY- HISTORIC

“SUPER STORM” IN EIGHT DAYS

AN ORDINARY TROPICAL STORM ON OCTOBER 22

SUPER STORM SANDY ON OCTOBER 29-30, 2012

CAT 1 HURRICANE SANDY MADE LANDFALL AT 8:00 PM ON

MONDAY NIGHT, OCT. 29TH

Sandy made landfall south of Atlantic City, New Jersey, merging with a winter storm system to become a unique, once-in-a-

century, “Super Storm” caused by nature’s natural cycles, NOT global warming

TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES IN 2005

Twenty-seven storms occurred during the 2005 season.

TROPICAL STORMS-HURRICANES IN 2005

ARLENE BRET CINDY DENNIS EMILY FRANKLIN

GERT HARVEY IRENE JOSE

KATRINA LEE

TROPICAL STORMS-HURRICANES IN 2005

MARIA NATE OPHELIA PHILIPPE

RITA STAN

TAMMY VINCE WILMA ALPHA BETA GAMMA DELTA EPSILON ZETA

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

EVERY HURRICANE TEACHES IMPORTANT LESSONS ABOUT THE FIVE PILLARS

OF DISASTER RESILIENCE.

LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT DISASTER RESILIENCE

ALL HURRICANES BEING PREPARED

MEANS THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE RISKS ASSOC-IATED WITH STORM SURGE, WIND, AND RAIN AND PLAN FOR THEIR IMPACTS.

2012’S SANDY: NEW JERSEY: OCEAN FRONT FLOODING

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

ALL HURICANES PREPAREDNESS

MEANS THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT HURRICANES ARE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY PRECIP-ITATION THAT WILL INUNDATE LOW-LYING AREAS OF THE COMMUNITY.

2012’S SANDY: ATLANTIC CITY, NJ, UNDER WATER

2012’S SANDY: FLOODING IN BROOKLYN, NY

2012’S ISAAC: RAIN IN PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI: AUG. 23

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

ALL HURRICANES

PREPAREDNESS PLANS FOR THE INEVITABLE POWER OUTAGES THAT PARALYZE THE COMMUNITY.

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

ALL HURRICANES PREPAREDNESS \

MEANS THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT ADVERSE ENVIRON-MENTAL IMPACTS HAPPEN WHEN HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ARE SUBJECTED TO WIND, STORM SURGE, AND FLOODING.

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

ALL HURRICANES PREPAREDNESS

PLANS INCLUDE PETS

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

ALL HURRICANES PROTECTION

MEANS THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH VELOCITY WIND AND BUILD ACCORDINGLY.

LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT DISASTER RESILIENCE

ALL HURICANES WITHOUT

ADEQUATE PROTECTION, HIGH VELOCITY WIND WILL LIFT THE ROOF OFF OF MANY BUILDINGS.

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

KATRINA A PROTECTION

NIGHTMARE OCCURRED WHEN NEW ORLEANS’ LEVEES FAILED.

LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT DISASTER RESILIENCE

KATRINA, AUGUST 28-29, 2005

ANOTHER PROTECTION NIGHTMARE OCCURRED WHEN WIND AND FLOODING, CLOSED TULANE UNIVERSITY) LONG ENOUGH TO PARALYZE THE COMMUNITY.

LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT DISASTER RESILIENCE

ALL HURRICANES.

DISASTER-INTELLIGENT COMMUNITIES USE TIMELY EARLY WARNING BASED ON CRITICAL INFORM-ATION TO IMPROVE THE ODDS FOR SAVING LIVES.

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

BETA, OCTOBER 29, 2005

DISASTER INTELLIGENT COMMUNITIES SAVE LIVES BY USING INFORMATION ON THE THREAT AS IT DEVELOPS HOUR BY HOUR.

EVACUATION: LEAVING NEW ORLEANS ON I-10: AUGUST 30, 2005

TRACKS OF CINDY, DENNIS, KATRINA, RITA, AND WILMA

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

2005’S KATRINA, RITA, AND WILMA

EVACUATION IS A COMPLEX ENDEAVOR IN ANY SUTUATION THAT HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR DISASTER.

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

ALL HURRICANES

EVACUATION IS UNSUCCESSFUL IF SAFE HAVENS FOR EVACUEES ARE UNSAFE.

2012’S ISAAC: EVACUEES IN A LOUISIANA SAFE HAVEN

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

Katrina, August 29-30, 2005

Instead of being a safe haven, as envisioned, New Orleans’ Super Dome became a setting for disaster.

LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT DISASTER RESILIENCE

ALL HURRICANES INTELLIGENT

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT UNDERSTANDS THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH FLOODING AND BUILDS CAPACITY FOR RESILIENCE.

LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT DISASTER RESILIENCE

ALL HURRICANES

RECOVERY TAKES LONGER AND COSTS MORE THAN EXPECTED.

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

Katrina, August 29-30, 2005

Removal of 350,000 water-damaged cars was not part of anyone’s recovery plan.

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

ALL HURRICANES RECOVERY AND

RECONSTRUCTION PLANS INCLUDES THE UNTHINK-ABLE THAT CAN HAPPEN IN ANY COMMUNITY.

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

KATRINA NEW ORLEANS’

STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL PLANS DID NOT WORK DURING THE EMERGENCY PERIOD.

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

ALL HURRICANES PREPAREDNESS

UNDERSTANDS THAT LAPSES IN LAW AND ORDER MAY OCCUR DURING THE MOST CHAOTIC MOMENTS OF A DISASTER.

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

ALL HURRICANES RECOVERY UNDER-

STANDS THAT IT ONLY TAKES A FEW HOURS OF WIND AND STORM SURGE AND TWO WEEKS OF FLOODING FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESSES AND JOBS TO DISAPPEAR FOREVER.

LESSONS LEARNED FOR CAPACITY BUILDING

ARLENE, JUNE 2005

INTELLIGENT COMMUNITIES ARE READY, WHETHER THE FIRST STORM OR THE LAST STORM OF THE SEASON.

LESSONS LEARNED FOR CAPACITY BUILDING

STAN: OCTOBER 2005

EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANS FOR DEVASTATING MUDSLIDES THAT CAN BE TRIGGERED BY PROLONGED RAIN.

LESSONS LEARNED FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

STAN, OCTOBER 2005

AFTER A MUDSLIDE

BURIES A TOWN, SEARCH AND RESCUE, A VERY COMPLICATED TASK, BECOMES VERY URGENT.