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The Importance of Understanding Your Local Hurricane Impact History

The Importance of Understanding Your Local Hurricane Impact History. Lew Fincher Hurricane Historian Galveston County Historical Commission. How many times have we heard, “It’s Never Happened This Bad Before!”. Hurricane Andrew… 25 years since…

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The Importance of Understanding Your Local Hurricane Impact History

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  1. The Importance of Understanding Your Local Hurricane Impact History Lew Fincher Hurricane Historian Galveston County Historical Commission

  2. How many times have we heard, “It’s Never Happened This Bad Before!” Hurricane Andrew… 25 years since… Hurricane Ike… did anyone remember Audrey? Carla? Rita? 1915? 1900? Hurricane Sandy… (1893 NY Hurricane) Hurricane Rita… did anyone remember Audrey?

  3. All Decision Makers Need To Understand Risk • Big Industry Decision Makers Need to Grasp Their Local Impact History… What Has Happen Before… 50 – 150 Years ago… • County Judges & City Mayors Need To Make Proper Evacuation Decisions… • Families Need To Understand If They Can Safely “Hunker Down” In Their Safe Have (Home)

  4. You Can’t Compare Past Damage Costs With Todays…What Has Happened Before In History, Can Repeat Itself… Or… Be Worse Than Ever Before! Before where was very little… Now… • Massive Development All Along Our Coastline • Industrial Centers Have Grown • We Are Building In Areas Where Our Ancestors Would Not! • The Costs of Rebuilding Have Exploded • Hazmat Releases Are Possible If…

  5. FIND THE FACTS FROM EXPERTS Your Local County Historical Commission Your Local Emergency Management Coordinator Your Local Research Librarian The NOAA Hurricane Research Division The National Hurricane Conference’s Hurricane History Committee Dr. Chris Landsea Dr. Carl Mock Your Local NWSFO Archives

  6. AS FAR BACK AS 1898 OUR PRESIDENT UNDERSTOOD THE THREATFROM THE “WEST INDIAN HURRICANE”… WHAT TODAY I CONSIDER THE “TROPICAL TERRORIST.”

  7. HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF… WILL YOU BE PREPARED?

  8. READ & LEARN • A WEEKEND IN SEPTEMBER – EDWARD WEEMS • 1900 GALVESTON FLOOD – NATHAN GREENE • DIVINE WIND – KERRY EMANUEL • THE HURRICANE ALMANAC , TEXAS EDITIONS – MICHAEL ELLIS • HURRICANE WATCH – DR. BOB SHEETS & JACK WILLIAMS • INFINITE MONSTER – LEIGH JONES & RHIANNON MEYERS • LESSONS FROM HURRICANE IKE – PHIIP BEDIENT, RICE UNIVERSITY • HURRICANE BEULAH – ARMY CORP OF ENGINEERS • GALVESTON: A CITY ON STILTS – JODI WRIGHT-GIDLEY & JENNIFER MARINES • SO MANY OTHERS THAT COVER SO MANY SECTIONS OF OUR NATION’S HURRICANE HISTORY THAT SHOULD BE READ TO SERIOUSLY GRASP THE THREAT FROM THE TROPICAL TERRORISTS IN A VERY PERSONAL WAY

  9. THANKS FOR LISTENINGANY QUESTIONS? LEW FINCHER LEW@HURRICANECONSULTING.NET WWW.HURRICANECONSULTING.NET FACEBOOK PAGE – HURRICANE CONSULTING, INC. TWEET - @HURAKAN

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