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Opening Remarks History Parish Resources State Resources A Unied Sheltering Plan Back to the Future a paradigm shift. Closing Comments

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History

Time/Coordinates: LA River Parishes April 1927 The Great Flood

Time/Coordinates: New Orleans September 19, 1947 Hurricane

Time/Coordinates: New Orleans September 9, 1965 Hurricane Betsy

Time/Coordinates: S. Central Louisiana August 26, 1992 Hurricane Andrew

152,000 customers lost electricity / 80% of the Atchafalaya River Basin trees lost / 9.4 million sh killed / $200 million in damages to sugar cane crops / 6,200 people housed in 36 separate Red Cross shelters / 4 deaths from storm - 2 deaths from related tornados Implementation of The Louisiana Homeland Security & Emergency Assistance & Disaster Act

Time/Coordinates: September 11, 2001 Attack on America

Homeland S ecurity P residential D irective 5 - I mplementation o f a N ational I ncident M anagement S ystem ( NIMS) & t he N ational Response P lan ( February 2003)

Time/Coordinates: New Orleans July 2004 Hurricane Ivan

Mandatory evacuations of vulnerable areas in Jeerson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, St. Charles, St. James, St. John & Tangipahoa parishes - voluntary evacuations ordered in 6 other parishes More than one-third of Greater New Orleans population evacuated voluntarily, including more than half of the residents of New Orleans Intense trac congestion caused delays of up to 12 hours About 1,000 special-needs patients were housed at the Louisiana Superdome during the storm

Time/Coordinates: Louisiana August/September 2005 Hurricane Katrina/Rita

Time/Coordinates: Louisiana August/September 2008 Hurricane Gustav/Ike

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Pre-Katrina
" No State pre-event assisted transportation plan " No State run General Population Shelters
(Superdome considered last resort) shelters primarily above I-10
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" Shelter Task Force coordinated sheltering parish

Citizens transported themselves to Information Points along evacuation routes Information Points provided shelter location info to evacuees

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Pre-Katrina
" State was prepared to open several Medical
Special Needs Shelters

" No pet plans or pet shelters " Parishes provided shelters within their own
jurisdictions for citizens seeking safety from wind and/or water

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Post-Katrina
" Federal & State Governments conducted after- " Feds developed planning gure of 250,000
Louisiana citizens that would need sheltering / State develops gure of 50,000 Critical Transportation Needs (CTN) population action review, assessment & planning assistance

" Louisiana shelter eort led by DSS working with

State Shelter Task Force & American Red Cross

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Post-Katrina
" State begins growing shelter capacity with
mega-shelters located in Central & North Louisiana
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1st State owned shelter built on LSU-A campus

" Post Katrina plans used during Hurricane Gustav

were successful but improvements necessary, areas of focus included evacuee tracking & reentry

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Post-Katrina
" St. Charles Parish rst in coordinating a Point to
Point shelter agreement with another parish (Avoyelles) - used during Hurricane Gustav sheltering capacity

" Coordination with Host States for overow " Any parish can request State assistance to

evacuate & shelter their citizens (primarily those threatened by Category 3 Hurricanes & above)

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Evacuee Transportation
Transportation Mode Evacuees Cost Cost Per Evacuee

Bus Air Rail Totals

* Tentative numbers

26,611 5,050 2,026 33,687

$29.6M $5.5M $3.6M $38.7M

1,112 1,089 1,777 1,326

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Parish Resources

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Resource options
" What resources does a parish have available
to respond to a threat:
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Transportation Sheltering Wrap around services

" Regional coordination & resource sharing " Local sheltering benets

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Naval Support Activity East Bank Redevelopment

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State Resources

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State resource options

" State support of parish shelters " State Transportation & Sheltering
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" Host State Agreements

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A Unied Sheltering Plan

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Sheltering eorts
" Maximum utilization of all resources
from the parish up

" Role of the American Red Cross &

Louisiana Shelter Task Force

" One standard

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Back To The Future a paradigm shift

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What are we doing?

" Misperception (The State wants us to do it) " Because another parish is doing it " Dont have the resources " The Domino Pizza Theory Its Free! " Dont want responsibility " The facility will get messed up

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Science & history will support smart decisions Cost

" Potential cost share = 25% " Keep the money in your parish " What is the price paid by your citizens

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Closing Comments