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Ice Storm. St. Clair County Winter Ice StormAfter Action BriefingNovember 30

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    1. Welcome Communities County Board Chairman IEMA Ameren IP

    2. Ice Storm St. Clair County Winter Ice Storm After Action Briefing November 30 & December 1, 2006

    3. General Information Name of Agency St. Clair County Completed by Bob Knight Position EMA Coordinator Phone number (618) 277-3012 EMAIL bob.knight@co.st-clair.il.us

    4. General Information Continued Dates & duration of Storm - November 30 & December 1, 2006 (The Effects are still ongoing.) Date report completed - March 5, 2007 Type of event - Winter ice storm and power outage

    5. Executive Summary In the aftermath of any unusual occurrence it is imperative that an analysis of the performance of all government services be conducted. Through such an examination, it is hoped that all can learn something from an event of this magnitude. Responses can never be perfect, but through training and experience lessons should be learned and corrective actions taken to perform better during a future event. We believe that the government of St Clair Co. and the affected communities and all agencies who provided assistance performed remarkably during the crisis. This document is intended only to improve on the exceptional performance observed in the recovery effort following the disaster that struck the communities in St. Clair county.

    6. From the NWS St. Louis: WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT. THE FIRST WINTER STORM OF THE SEASON WILL BE THREATENING CENTRAL AND EASTERN MISSOURI...AS WELL AS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...ON THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. COLDER AIR WILL BEGIN PUSHING INTO THE REGION ON THURSDAY...BRINGING ABOUT A SUDDEN AND ABRUPT END TO THE MILD WEATHER OF THE PAST WEEK. AS TEMPERATURES PLUMMET...FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL FIRST DEVELOP...WITH THIS ICY MIX THEN CHANGING OVER TO SNOW. IN MID MISSOURI...THE FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AROUND DAYBREAK...WITH THE PRECIPITATION CHANGE TO ALL SNOW DURING THE MORNING. IN THE ST LOUIS METRO AREA...THE ICY MIX WILL DEVELOP DURING THE MORNING...THEN CHANGE OVER TO SNOW DURING THE AFTERNOON. FINALLY...IN EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...THE ICY MIX SHOULD BEGIN DURING THE AFTERNOON...THEN CHANGE TO SNOW IN THE EVENING.

    7. A very powerful early season winter storm produced significant amounts of snow and ice across much of the middle of the country on November 30th and December 1st.  Over a foot of snow fell from Oklahoma to southeastern Wisconsin and accumulations of sleet and freezing rain in excess of 2 inches were common across eastern Missouri and western Illinois.  The last winter weather event of this magnitude occurred on January 1st of 1999.

    8. An image from the MODIS polar orbiting satellite highlights in more detail where snow fell from central and northeast Oklahoma, across Missouri and Illinois, and into southeastern Wisconsin. 

    9. The precipitation changed over to all snow during the evening hours of November 30th over central and northeast Missouri as well as west central Illinois.  A band of very heavy snow set up over this region with several reports of thundersnow received. Below is a storm total sleet and snowfall map from this event with the most significant ice accumulation area outlined with a blue dash line. 

    10. Ice Accumulation

    19. CENCOM Overview: Report compiled for the Winter Ice Storm Report focuses on CENCOM Dispatch CENCOM’s capabilities & performance INCIDENT On Thursday November 30th 2006 at approximately 7:00pm the Ice Storm had entered the St Louis Metro Area. Within minutes of the storms arrival, the call volume doubled at CENCOM. At the time the PSAP Manager and several Supervisors and employees were called back to work.

    20. CENCOM (continued) During the peek hours of the storm CENCOM had 9 Telecommunicators answer 911 calls for assistance. This number of TC’s had never been done before. Over the next twelve hours CENCOM recorded the largest call volume it had ever seen. CALL VOLUME Thursday: 2,382 calls were answered at CENCOM Friday: 1,982 calls were answered at CENCOM 2 Day Totals: 4,364 calls for assistance FIRE CALLS More than 550 fire calls were dispatched Thursday night and an additional 275 fire calls were transferred to other agencies Other County PSAP’s handled overwhelming call volume.

    21. Media Releases

    22. Media Release (continued)

    23. Power Outage Update: The maximum number without power peaked at around 520,000 in the early afternoon of December 1st with most of those in the St. Louis Metropolitan area as of 7:03 am December 2nd, 376,792 are without power in the St. Louis metro area and 453,571 throughout the entire service area.

    24. 468,719 customers without power at 7:51 a.m. Gusting winds 30-40 mph on the morning of December 1 caused the number without power to greatly increase.

    25. RED CROSS Friday-Dec. 1, 2006 Opened up Westhaven Elementary School to become a Red Cross shelter at 12:30pm. By 2pm Red Cross had visits from the Belleville Mayor, City Police, Director of Link and South Central Transit of Centralia provided bus service Bellevill Police patrols stopped by every two hours. Link director offered medical equipment such as wheel chairs. By 6pm Red Cross were sheltering about 65 clients. Saturday- Dec 2, 2006 Served 100 Breakfast 75 Lunch, 75 Dinner meals 73 Residents stayed overnight

    26. Red Cross Continued Sunday- Dec 3, 2006 By 10:30am down to 35 clients Noon 45 Clients 2:30 pm notified that we would be moving from Westhaven elementary School to the Belleville Fairgrounds building. SCT would transfer the clients Monday-Dec 4, 2006 10:30 am down to 42 residents 9:30pm down to 31 residents Tuesday-Dec 5, 2006 7:00 am 29 clients 6:00 pm 23 clients Wednesday-Dec 6, 2006 Red Cross informed everyone that they should have power restored by the afternoon. At 3:45 pm Red Cross Shelter was closed.

    28. Assets (continued) Community: Caseyville Contact Person: Kerry Davis Contact Number: 581-8787 Equipment Requested: Same 1-16-07 Thru 1-19-07 Finished with State Assists on 1-19-07                    Staging Area: City Garage # 1 North Long St                    Will Feed Crews: Yes                    Will Supply Non-Public Restrooms: Yes                    Community: Centreville Township                    Contact Person: Marty Crawford                    Contact Number: 420-6918                    Equipment Requested: Same 1-16-07 thru 1-19-07 Finished with State Assets on 1-19-07                           Will Feed Crews: Yes                    Will Supply Non-Public Restrooms: Yes                    Community: Shiloh                    Contact Person: Norm Etling                    Contact Number: 632-1022 Ext 13 or Cell 410-6740                    Equipment Requested: Same 1-16-07 thru 1-19-07 Finished with State Assets on 1-19-07                    Will Feed Crews: Yes                    Will Supply Non-Public Restrooms: Yes                                Community: Belleville                    Contact Person: Ken Vaughn                    Contact Number: 779-7063                    Equipment Requested: Same 1-16-07 Thru 1-19-07                    Estimated time of Use: 1-31-07                    Will Feed Crews: Yes                    Will Supply Non-Public Restrooms: Yes                   Community: Smithon                   FINISHED WITH STATE ASSETS

    31. IEMA Public Assistance Program Applicant’s Briefing Thrusday February 22nd 2007 at 10:30am Southwestern Illinois College A public assistance program applicant’s briefing will be conducted dor local government organizations (counties, townships,cities,villages, school districts,etc.) and certain private non-profit organizations (utility cooperatives, volunteer fire departments, etc.) which incurred extraordinary expenses due to the severe winter storm that occurred on November 30, 2006- December 1, 2006.

    33. Mission Brief overview of the event, major strengths demonstrated during the emergency, areas that require improvement This was a major ice storm that impacted Illinois and Missouri. A large portion of St. Clair County, was affected by downed power lines which created power outages in those areas of the County. Most communities were affected which placed a burden on their agencies. In some cases this created a need to reach out to others for assistance. This emphasizes the need for an increase in awareness in the practice of NIMS and a coordinated regional emergency management effort. This was a multi agency disaster in the aftermath of the winter ice storm that affected St. Clair County during the dates of November 30th and December 1st, 2006. Emphasis was on increasing awareness of the expected widespread regional impacts and on practicing coordinated regional emergency management in a disaster.

    34. Objectives Strengthen relationships and communications between communities Practice coordination in a major disaster among the communities Strengthen relationships between Emergency Management Coordinators

    35. Major Strengths Weather forecast/warnings 9-1-1 PSAP’s St. Clair County Radio System Emergency Responders Red Cross – Salvation Army

    36. Areas That Could Be Improved Mobile Generators for shelters Locate and create map layers for special needs facilities, hospitals, nursing homes, shelters, schools, etc. Representatives for each community affected to be a part of the County EOC. Department heads as required to participate at the EOC. Create new County EOC for coordination of all communities.

    37. Areas That Could Be Improved NIMS Compliant For Communities Local Government Police Fire Ems

    38. Keep up-to-date on the latest information from the EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER (EOC): Animal Safety Bus Transportation Debris Information Donations and Volunteering Emergency Safety Information FEMA Assistance/Financial Aid Health Department Hotlines Links Media Briefings & Information Mental Health Counseling News Releases Permitting Information (Repairs/Demolition) Photo Gallery Well-being checks

    39. Thank you for your participation in this after action review. Bob Knight St. Clair County EMA

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