Snow Disasters For Local State And Federal Governments In The National Capital Region
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Nature |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure |
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Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Legislative oversight |
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Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2011 |
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Author | : Timothy W. Kneeland |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0815655118 |
On Friday, January 28, 1977, it began to snow in Buffalo. The second largest city in New York State, located directly in line with the Great Lakes’ snowbelt, was no stranger to this kind of winter weather. With their city averaging ninety-four inches of snow per year, the citizens of Buffalo knew how to survive a snowstorm. But the blizzard that engulfed the city for the next four days was about to make history. Between the subzero wind chill and whiteout conditions, hundreds of people were trapped when the snow began to fall. Twenty- to thirty-foot-high snow drifts isolated residents in their offices and homes, and even in their cars on the highway. With a dependency on rubber-tire vehicles, which lost all traction in the heavily blanketed urban streets, they were cut off from food, fuel, and even electricity. This one unexpected snow disaster stranded tens of thousands of people, froze public utilities and transportation, and cost Buffalo hundreds of millions of dollars in economic losses and property damages. The destruction wrought by this snowstorm, like the destruction brought on by other natural disasters, was from a combination of weather-related hazards and the public policies meant to mitigate them. Buffalo’s 1977 blizzard, the first snowstorm to be declared a disaster in US history, came after a century of automobility, suburbanization, and snow removal guidelines like the bare-pavement policy. Kneeland offers a compelling examination of whether the 1977 storm was an anomaly or the inevitable outcome of years of city planning. From the local to the state and federal levels, Kneeland discusses governmental response and disaster relief, showing how this regional event had national implications for environmental policy and how its effects have resounded through the complexities of disaster politics long after the snow fell.
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Author | : Bernice Steinhardt |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1437989322 |
When historic snowstorms forced lengthy closings of fed. offices in the D.C. area in 2010, thousands of employees continued to work from their homes, making clear the potential of telework in mitigating the effects of emergencies. This report: (1) describes the guidance agencies have issued pertaining to the use of telework during emergencies; (2) describes Office of Personnel Mgmt. (OPM) and other assessments related to agencies' incorp. of telework into emergency or continuity planning, and the extent to which agencies have provided definitions and practices to support agency planning; and (3) assesses the extent to which OPM and FEMA coordinated with other agencies on recent guidance documents. Illus. This is a print on demand report.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies |
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Total Pages | : 1072 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : David W. Mills |
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Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781946163035 |
The blizzards that devastated the West eventually ended when every farmer and rancher in need of bulldozer crews had received the required assistance. Life began to return to normal for the people who experienced the extreme hardships evident throughout that infamous winter, but the effects remained in the consciousness of the leaders who had to react to those challenges. One reason the blizzards of 1949 devastated the West was because state and federal governments had no methodical approach to deal with natural disasters. They could not offer an organized response to national emergencies in which local, county, and state governments required assistance to save livestock and human residents. After these blizzards, authorities began to implement changes to disaster response and fundamental changes appeared in the following decades.Citizens, soldiers, and federal contractors worked to end the ordeal of the blizzards, quickly opening routes throughout the region. State and federal road crews liberated many farmers and ranchers, who quickly went to grocery stores for the first time in weeks or months to restock their food shelves. Newspapers across the country reported when portions of the affected states were finally free to leave their isolated homes. The folks who witnessed the blizzards of 1949 still remember them, and newspapers routinely commemorate the event on relevant anniversaries. In the end, however, the importance of the blizzard conditions as examined here are not the misery they inflicted on the populace, not the stories of heroism or heartbreak, but the snapshot in time the affair provides the reader today.