2010 Hurricane Season Mississippi State of the State

1. Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Womack 2010 Hurricane Season Mississippi State of the State Hurricane Gustav, 2008

2. 2010 Hurricane Season

3. Sheltering • Lower six counties: • Space for more than 37,000 people. • Statewide: • Availability for 200,642 people. • Animal shelters are being co-coordinated with general population shelters in Central Mississippi. • Additional special needs and animal shelters are being identified, equipped and staffed.

4. New Coast Shelters Public • West Harrison H.S. • D’Iberville H.S. • St. Martin H.S. First Responder • Bay St. Louis Fire House • Fountainbleu Community Center

5. Evacuation • All evacuation routes are fully functional. • New 4-lane highways will expedite process: • Hwy 67 • Hwy 605 • Contra-flow extended on I-59.

6. Logistics • State has 110 pallets of water stored at the MEMA warehouse in Pearl. • 205,632 total bottles ready for immediate distribution. • 60 Pallets of MRE’s are stored at the MEMA warehouse. • 576 meals per pallet. • Would feed 5,376 people for three days with two meals per day

7. LogisticsL • The state has contracted with Specialty Fuel Services to ensure the availability of fuel in the event a catastrophic disaster occurs for 70,000 gallons of unleaded and 30,000 gallons of diesel. • Local governments must exhaust their local fuel provider prior to submitting a Request for Assistance.

8. CommunicationsLM • Mississippi Wireless Integrated Network • MSWIN • Phase I completed on the MS Gulf Coast. • Allow seamless mission-critical communications • between state agencies, first responders and • local governments. • Additional phases will link North, South and Central Mississippi on a common operating wireless link.

9. Katrina RecoveryL

10. Hurricane KatrinaStatistics • All 82 Mississippi counties declared for public assistance. • 49 counties declared for individual assistance. • 518,000 Mississippi families registered for federal assistance.

11. Katrina Recovery: Public Assistance

12. Katrina Recovery: Public Assistance • About $3 billion has been obligated for Public Assistance projects. • MEMA administers PA funds. To date, MEMA has disbursed more than $2.1 billion to Public Assistance applicants as of June 1, 2010.

13. Katrina by the numbers • $9.5 billion spent by FEMA in Mississippi. • $3 billion obligated for infrastructure repair and replacement, debris removal and emergency protective measures. • $2.6 billion paid by FEMA to 19,999 policyholders for flood claims through its National Flood Insurance Program. • $1.3 billion given to 274,761 Mississippi households for individual assistance. • 74,434 Mississippians now have flood insurance, or about double since Katrina.

14. Hazard Mitigation Grant Program • Mississippi has 341 jurisdictions with MEMA/FEMA approved Hazard Mitigation plans. • FEMA has approved $172,283,014.75 in obligated funding for Hazard Mitigation Grant Program projects after Hurricane Katrina. • Funding projects that include updating mitigation plans, building storm shelters, purchase of generators for critical emergency facilities, re-locating schools and other public buildings to areas outside the ABFE and retrofitting buildings to shelter code. • www.MitigationMS.org

15. The Mississippi Cottage • One, two and three bedroom units.

16. Katrina Recovery Disaster Housing • FEMA’s temporary housing program ended May 1, 2009. • At the peak of the FEMA housing program, 39,950 families lived in FEMA disaster housing. • The first Mississippi Alternative Housing Unit was occupied on June 21, 2007.

17. Katrina Recovery:Mississippi Cottages • Currently being sold to program residents. • Price based on income sliding scale from $351. • 454 sales to date. • Additional units donated to non-profit agencies and auction. • Also being used for current disaster housing.

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