TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO EDUCATIONAL SURGES THAT WILL ADVANCE DISASTER RESILIENCE PART 6

1. TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO EDUCATIONAL SURGES THAT WILL ADVANCE DISASTER RESILIENCE PART 6 Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance For Disaster Reduction

2. GOAL: COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE FLOODS USE DISASTER’S INFO TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY RESILIENCE SEVERE WIND STORMS EARTHQUAKES INCREASE TECHNICAL AND POLITICL CAPACITY OF COMMUNITY TO COPE DROUGHTS INCREASE OWNERSHIP AND USE OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE LANDSLIDES WILDFIRES VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS TSUNAMIS GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE TECHNOLOGICAL HAZARDS

3. NOTABLE DISASTERS IN 2011 FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA NEW KNOWLEDGE FOR MAKING COMMUNITIES DISASTER RESIILIENT EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI IN JAPAN WILDFIRES IN FLORIDA, TEXAS, AND ARIZONA , ETC EXPERIENCE FOR CHANGE HURRICANE IRENE AND TROPIAL STORM LEE FLOODS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER SUPER TORNADO OUTBREAK VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS

4. 2011’S KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE BASE INCLUDED RECORD FLOODING ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER (USA) APRIL - MAY, 2011

5. USING 2011’S EXPERIENCES TO PROMOTE FLOOD DISASTER RESILIENCE WILL MOVE COMMUNITIES TOWARDS AN IMPORTANT NATIONAL GOAL

6. A DISASTER is --- --- the set of failures that overwhelm the capability of a community torespond without external help  when three continuums: 1)  people, 2) community (i.e., a set of habitats, livelihoods, and social constructs), and 3) complex events (e.g., floods, earthquakes, ...,) intersect at a point in space and time.

7. Disasters are caused by single- or multiple-event natural hazards that, (for various reasons), caused extreme levels of mortality, morbidity, homelessness, joblessness, economic losses, or environmental impacts.

8. THE THREE CONTINUUMS OF EVERY DISASTER PEOPLE COMMUNITY COMPLEX EVENTS

9. A DISASTER IMPACTS ALL SOCIETAL ELEMENTS

10. AN EDUCATIONAL SURGE • Transforms information and experience gained from a disaster into knowledge, best practices, and technologies that help communities become disaster resilient.

11. HOW TO BUILD CAPACITY FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE • Identify the gaps in community capacity in the four critical elements of the solution: Preparedness, Protection, Response, and Recovery. • Use the accumulated knowledge and experience base to fill the perceived gaps in Preparedness, Protection, Response, and Recovery in the community.

12. CRITICAL ELEMENTS FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE • PREPAREDNESS (READY FOR ANY COMPLEX EVENT) • PROTECTION (BUILD ESSENTIAL AND CRITICAL FACILITIES TO WITHSTAND)

13. CRITICAL ELEMENTS FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE • RESPONSE (SAVING LIVES, AND ENSURING CONTINUITY) • RECOVERY (BOUNCING BACK QUICKLY AND RESUMING LIFE AGAIN)

14. BENEFITS OF AN EDUCATIONAL SURGE • Intensifies effortsto protect essential (schools) and critical facilities (hos-pitals, dams, transportation, systems, and power plants).

15. EDUCATIONAL SURGES CREATE TURNING POINTS FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE ALL SECTORS OF SOCIETY INFORMED IGNORANCE TO ENLIGHTENMENT EDUCATIONAL SURGES CHANGE POLICIES BASED ON A COM-MUNITY’S RISK APATHY TO EMPOWERMENT BOUNDARIES TO NETWORKS STATUS QUO TO GOOD POLITICAL DECISIONS

16. TURNING POINTS FOR CHANGE NEW RESOURCES NEW DELIVERY MECHANISMS EDUCATIONAL SURGES WILL RESULT IN … NEW PROFESSIONAL LINKAGES NEW LEGISLATIVE MANDATES NEW DIALOGUE ON BUILDING A CULTURE OF DISASTER-RISK REDUCTION

17. EDUCATIONAL SURGE ADD VALUE INCREASE AWARENESS AN EDUCATIONAL SURGE WILL INCREASE UNDERSTANDING INCREASE POLITICAL WILL BUILD EQUITY

18. BENEFITS OF EDUCATIONAL SURGES EXPAND CAPABILITY IMPROVE DELIVERY MECHANISMS EDUCATIONAL SURGES OVERCOME UNIVERSAL BARRIERS CREATE TURNING POINTS OF CHANGE INCREASE COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE

19. HEAVY RAINFALL IN MEMPHIS AREA: APRIL 31, 2011 • Major thunderstorms unleashed up to 1/3 meter (a foot of rain) that swamped the Memphis area with "unprecedented" flooding, in-undating homes and vehicles, bursting levees, and forcing the evacuation of more than 1,500 people.

20. A SWOLLEN MISSISSIPPI RIVER, WHICH DRAINS 41 % OF USA, REACHED THE MEMPHIS,TN AREA ON MAY 9th APRIL 31- MAY 10, 2011

21. MAY 9: MISSISSIPPI RIVER CRESTED IN MEMPHIS AREA • The Mississippi River crested around 7:00 pm in Memphis, just below its 74-year-old record, as a deluge of water moved southward towards cities and oil refineries..

22. A RECORD 2011 EXPERIENCE • The flooding broke high-water records that have stood since the 1930s.

23. THE LOOSAHATCHIE RIVER • The Loosahatchie River rose 23 feet in less than 24 hours, reaching a record 25.31 feet at 7:15 a.m., surpassing the former high-water mark of 25.27 feet set in December 1987.

24. ARLINGTON, TN: ONLY ROOF OF CAR REMAINS ABOVE WATER

25. BOLTON, TN : APRIL 31, 2011

26. MILLINGTON, TN: APRIL 31, 2011

27. MILLINGTON, TN: MAY 3, 2011

28. MILLINGTON, TN: RESCUE OPERATIONS

29. VOLUNTEER HELPING OTHERS ESCAPE

30. RIVER CRESTED WITHIN A FEW CM OF THE 1937 RECORD

31. THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: LOOKING MORE LIKE AN OCEAN THAN A RIVER

32. MEMPHIS: MAY 3, 2011

33. MEMPHIS, TN RESIDENTS WARNED OF NEED TO EVACUATE: MAY 6, 2011

34. STRANDED PETS

35. MEMPHIS: BARGE TRAFFIC HALTED; MAY 6, 2011

36. THE WATER: A POTENTIAL HEALTH RISK • The Mississippi River flood water, already contaminated by pesticides, industrial pollutants, and debris acquired as it drained 41 percent of the Nation, was now full of snakes, and APOTENTIAL HEALTH PROBLEM.

37. DEBRIS-LADEN WATER; MAY 9TH

38. SAVING DOWNSTREAM CITIES AND OIL REFINERIES BECAME AN ISSUE AS FLOOD WATERS MOVED SOUTHWARD MONDAY, MAY 14, 2011

39. TOUGH DECISIONS • As high water flowed down the Mississippi River and its tributaries, threatening to flood all the communities along the river and the 11 oil refineries that have a combined capacity of 2.5 million barrels a day, people faced the question of whether to stay or to evacuate,

40. THE WORST CASE FOR OIL REFINERIES IN LOUISIANA • The worst case is for flood waters to inundate the refineries and shut them down for several months, as was the case after Hurricane Katrina.

41. THE DECISION: SAVING BATON ROUGE AND NEW ORLEANS • 2011’s flood waters had the potential to inundate cities (e.g., New Orleans) and the 11 oil refineries in the New Orleans-to-Baton Rouge region, which have a combined capacity of 2.5 million barrels a day.

42. SHORT-TERM SOLUTION WORKED • Controlled release of water that flooded farmland and rural areas instead of cities like New Orleans and the 11 refineries near New Orleans and Baton Rouge, worked as a short-term solution to reduce the risk.

43. SATURDAY, MAY 14: MORGANZA SPILLWAY OPENED; • Opening the Morganza spillway system for the first time since 1973 flooded farm land and rural areas, while reducing pressure on the levee system protecting Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

44. MORGANZA SPILLWAY

45. MORGANZA SPILLWAY: ONE OF 125 FLOODGATES OPENED; MAY 14TH

46. When the floodgate was opened, the Mississippi River began flowing at 1.5 million cubic feet per second.

47. BONNET CARRE SPILLWAY • Opening the Bonnet Carre Spillway transferred water to Lake Ponchartrain and reduced the pressure on the levees protecting Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

48. IMPACTS OF OPENING THE MORGANZA SPILLWAY • The water, which spilled out of a 10-ton steel floodgate, in-undated an estimated 3,000 square miles comprised of small farms and fish camps, leaving some places under as much as 6 m (25 ft) of water. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/14/national/main20062948.shtml#ixzz1MMkAYO00

49. TOWARDS FLOOD DISASTER RESILIENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS PROTECTION RESPONSE RECOVERY

50. HAZARD MAPS • INVENTORY • VULNERABILITY • LOCATION • BEST POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR: • PREPAREDNESS • PROTECTION • RESPONSE & RECOVERY DISASTER RESILIENCE RISK ASSESSMENT ACCEPTABLE RISK RISK UNACCEPTABLE RISK FOCUS ON FOUR CRITICAL AREAS FLOOD-PRONE COMMUNITY DATA BASES AND INFORMATION HAZARDS: GROUND SHAKING GROUND FAILURE SURFACE FAULTING TECTONIC DEFORMATION TSUNAMI RUN UP AFTERSHOCKS