Tropical Storm Ernesto Branch Briefing August 28, 2006

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SEOC LEVEL

124-Hour Operations

EOC Staffing

• STATE COORDINATING OFFICER – Craig Fugate• SERT CHIEF – Dave Halstead• OPERATIONS CHIEF – Leo Lachat• PLANS CHIEF – Carla Boyce• LOGISTICS CHIEF – Chuck Hagan• FINANCE & ADMIN CHIEF – Cherie Trainor• PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER – Mike Stone• RECOVERY – Jim Hampton

Tropical Storm Ernesto – 45 mph

Hurricane Hunter Fixes

Tropical Storm Ernesto – 45 mph

Steering Currents

Wind Shear

Information & Planning

• Lead Planners have been embedded in Emergency Services & Human Services to facilitate communications and planning within the SERT and external partners

– Coordinate IAP, Branch/Section specialty plans, ESF/Branch

– Communicate needs, accomplishments, movements, information

Common Operational Picture

Planning Assumptions

• Vulnerable population estimated at 1.6 Million– From Monroe to Flagler and includes populations

living in coastal surge zones, low lying areas and manufactured housing

• Planning for a paralleling category 1/2 storm

• Track & intensity are still uncertain

• Watches have been issued from Deerfield Beach (Broward) along the east coast to Chokoloskee (Monroe) on the west coast

Planning Assumptions

• Occupied temporary housing – 3,568 within the area of interest

• Evacuation of SpNS residents & FL Keys patients began this morning @ 6am

• All NPP (Turkey Point, Crystal River & St. Lucie) are within the 3 day error cone

Up Next – Operations

General Operating Objectives

1. Evaluate vulnerable populations and the demographics/impacts of/to those populations (i.e. special needs, economics, ethnicity)

2. Determine potential impacts or consequences

3. Determine affects on early elections already underway

4. Establish staffing and deployment plans

5. Support Evacuations

6. Prepare for Impacts from Ernesto

7. Continue financial management of operations

8. Initiate Primary Response Operations

General Operating Objectives

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