NOS Hurricane Summit

Coastal Response Research Center

NOS Hurricane Summit

Monday, August 3, 2020

via webinar

This workshop is made possible through the partnership with NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R), Disaster Preparedness Program (DPP) and the Gulf of Mexico Disaster Response Center in cooperation with the Coastal Response Research Center.

The workshop report: NOS Hurricane Preparedness Summit (released December 2020)

Goal and focus for the Hurricane Preparedness Summit:

Enhance NOAA’s support of its own people and resources for safety and improved disaster resilience considering the current pandemic.
Meeting hurricane response mission objectives while maintaining response personnel safety.
Enhance NOAA communications surrounding a potential hurricane-related disaster during a pandemic.

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: Discuss the current reconstitution guidance and health and safety guidelines. 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: How are you changing your posture from last year’s hurricane season? What lessons learned are being implemented? How are you addressing the COVID-19 restrictions? Do you have a response posture during shelter-in-place/telework? What is posture for response with social distancing/quasi-normal? 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?
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