It Takes a Team to Fight a Disaster!

1. It Takes a Team to Fight a Disaster! !

2. Have you spent your life entire looking for that pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow?

4. Keithville, Louisiana

5. Sandy Davis • Educated at UCLA

6. Sandy Davis • Educated at UCLA • Upper • Corner • LA- (Louisiana)

7. Sandy Davis • PHD

8. Sandy Davis • PHD • Pilot

9. Sandy Davis • PHD • Pilot • Bilingual

10. bilingual • Conversational in English

11. bilingual • Conversational in English • Fluent in Southern

12. The Big Picture • What do you see?

23. Disaster Teams • Must see the big picture

24. Disaster Teams • The small things are what require the majority of our time and efforts.

25. Emergency Managers • Managing the most seemingly insignificant issues is what makes you look good at the end of an event.

26. 57 Rules of Disaster Management

27. 57 Rules of Emergency Management • Rule #1. • You must deliver the goods.

28. 57 Rules of Emergency Management • Rule #1. You must deliver the goods • Rule #2. • The other 56 rules do not matter

29. It takes a team to fight a Disaster • It takes a team to fight a -Insert your disaster here

30. Disaster Teams • Hurricane Rita

32. MitigationHydro-Watch • City of Bossier City • Bossier Parish Police Jury • City of Shreveport • Caddo Parish Commission • Caddo-Bossier OHSEP • United States Geological Service

33. Flood Stage Monitoring Tools…Hydro-Watch

34. Disaster Teams • United States Army Corp of Engineers • Bodcau Reservoir at Historical Levels • Built in 1947 and never tested under real world conditions

35. MitigationRed Chute Control Structure • Flooding of Red Chute in 1991 and again in 2001 • Control Structure built to relieve Red Chute into Willow Chute and Flat River • Partnership • Bossier Parish Levee Board • Bossier Parish Police Jury • United States Army Corp of Engineers

36. Red Chute Control Structure

37. Disaster Teams • National Weather Service Shreveport • Historical Rainfall during eth first 3 quarters of 2009

38. Preparedness • 15 October 2009 • Bossier Parish Levy Board and Bossier Parish Police Jury stage sandbags and begin sand bagging operations of approximately 100 yards of the levee that overtopped in 1991 and again in 2001

39. Preparedness • 29 October 1000 hours • NWS Shreveport holds final webinar before event begins • Forecast severe weather and heavy rains for a 24 hour period beginning at 1500 hours. • Remember that forecast!

40. Preparedness • 29 October 1100 hours • CBOHSEP Director conducts briefing for response stakeholders in Caddo and Bossier Parishes

41. Response • 29 October 1515 hours

42. Two tornados impact the Parish…in the process of response and recovery a historic flood fight begins!

43. Tornado Damage • 1 within the City Limits of Bossier City • 1 outside of the city in the Parish • 800+ structures damaged

44. Rainfall • 1 inch 1500-1900 hours • 7 inches over a period beginning at approximately 1900 hours 29 October through 0200 hours 30 October

45. Coordination with local, state and federal stakeholders..

46. Forward Command

47. Bossier EOC

48. Joint Information Center

49. American Sign Language

50. Utilization of Non-Profit & Faith Base Support (Canteen Operations & Sheltering)