NOS Hurricane Summit

Virtual Hurricane Preparedness Summit I            

Virtual Hurricane Preparedness Summit II

Virtual Hurricane Preparedness Summit III     

April 23, 2020

June 29, 2020

August 3, 2020

Some key questions for this Summit include:

• What are the plans for NOAA’s people and facilities
  who are in harm’s way as they prepare for the
  hurricane season?
• What do the partners need from NOAA to
  support their efforts?
• How do we share information/lessons learned
  from facility to facility?
• How do we recover our own people/staff?
• Clarify and understand the guidelines for
  evacuation and recovery (e.g., funding and orders)
• How do we best conduct internal communications
  before, during and after the hurricane-related
  disaster?

Some key questions for this Summit include:

1. Discuss the current reconstitution guidance
   and health and safety guidelines.
2. Understand the level of preparedness and limitations
   for Facilities/Infrastructure, People, and
   Resources for NOAA and its partners during the
   2020 Hurricane Season during COVID-19 pandemic.

• Understand new risks in hurricane preparedness
  because of COVID-19 pandemic.
• Learn best practices on how our preparedness
  and response reduce risk to NOAA and partner
  facilities, people, and resources to hurricanes during the COVID-19 pandemic response.

Some key aspects for this Summit will be to understand and explore:

1. The challenges and limitations of hurricane response and recovery activities during a pandemic and

2. Best practices shared by the participants as we prepare for a possible major hurricane landfall.

Questions asked of the Panelists:

1. How are you changing your posture from
   last year’s hurricane season? What lessons learned are being implemented?
2. How are you addressing the COVID-19 restrictions?
3. Do you have a response posture during shelter-in-place/telework?
4. What is posture for response with social distancing/quasi-normal?
5. What action is needed to protect people
   and facilities (specifically to hurricane-prone locations) if COVID-19 restrictions continue?

Questions to address:

Risks: What new risks in hurricane preparedness are you
seeing because of  the pandemic?

Best Practices: What are your best practices for
preparedness and response to reduce risk to NOAA or
partner facilities, people, and resources to hurricanes during the pandemic response?

Questions to address:

1.Understand the challenges to NOAA's ability to support state and federal partners' field response missions during the 2020 season. This is socialization of the ‘minimum viable product’ concept.

2. What are the guidelines for responders going into disaster environments?

3. Based on observations of ESF-10 mission response, how are they different this year?

4. How might command posts for ESF 3 and ESF 10 be staffed during a pandemic?

5. What are the state's guidelines for quarantine or other health restrictions on response personnel?

Agenda

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Agenda