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2013 Hurricane Tabletop Exercise: Lessons from Major Hurricane Impacts

This document outlines the details of a hurricane tabletop exercise conducted in 2013, ten years after the last major hurricane and twenty-four years since the last major landfall. It reviews the impacts of hurricanes such as Katrina, Ike, and Sandy, and specifics of a simulated event on September 5, 2013. The exercise highlights the conditions leading up to the storm, including wind speeds over 125 mph and storm surge impacts, resulting in significant destruction across Charleston County with thousands injured, missing, or displaced. It also addresses challenges in communication and infrastructure following the landfall.

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2013 Hurricane Tabletop Exercise: Lessons from Major Hurricane Impacts

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  1. 2013 Hurricane Table Top Exercise

  2. Background • Ten plus years since last major hurricane • Twenty four years since last major landfall • Hurricanes all around us • Katrina • Rita • Ike • Hanna • Irene • Sandy

  3. August 31, 2013, 1100 hrs Advisory # 24 96 hours from Evacuation OPCONs, situations and issues

  4. September 2, 2013, 0500 hrs Advisory # 31 72 hours from Evacuation OPCONs, situations and issues

  5. September 3, 2013, 1700 hrs Advisory # 37 36 hours from Evacuation OPCONs, situations and issues

  6. September 4, 2013, 0500 Advisory # 39 24 hours from Evacuation OPCONs, situations and issues

  7. September 4, 2013, 1700 hr Advisory # 41 12 hours from Evacuation OPCONs, situations and issues

  8. September 5, 2013, 0800 hrs Advisory # 42 Mandatory Evacuation OPCONs, situations and issues

  9. Part 2: Landfall / Initial Response

  10. Part 2: Landfall / Initial Response • Situation: September 5, 2013 • Wind: 125+ mph in Charleston, 100+ in Clarendon, 90+ in Sumter, max 80 all the way through Lancaster County • Storm surge/tide: 16 plus ft barrier islands, 10 -13 ft peninsula, Mount Pleasant and East Cooper area. • Big picture impacts: 35,000 residences destroyed • Injured: 650 • Missing or trapped: 68 in Charleston, more elsewhere • Deceased: 22 • Sheltered statewide: 21,000 • Much of the Charleston barrier islands and most of Mt Pleasant are destroyed, peninsula and the Charleston Neck is significantly damaged.

  11. Part 2: Landfall / Initial Response • Situation: September 5-6, 2013 • Majority of the infrastructure in Charleston County has been impacted, with some facilities either destroyed or inoperative. • An estimated 20% of the county’s population did not or could not evacuate. • Tree blowdowns and other debris are blocking all access to the county. There are significant road blockages and trees on houses in Berkeley, Clarendon, and Sumter counties. • Power, water, wastewater, and telephone service is inoperative in Berkeley, Clarendon and Sumter counties, and sporadic in Lee, Kershaw and Lancaster counties.

  12. Landfall / Initial Response • Situations and issues • Lee, Sumter, Clarendon, Berkeley, Dorchester, and Charleston EOCs are non-functioning • 75% of hospitals are non-functioning immediately following the event • Massive debris fields on lifeline routes • 15 – 45% of all homes in the path of the storm are destroyed • People still in disaster areas

  13. Thank You

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