Snapshots of Hurricane Season 2010 Snapshots of Hurricane Season 2010 – Impacts and Lessons Learnt 5 th Annual Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management “CDM: Strengthening Partnerships for Resilience” December 6-10,

OUTLINE Events Hurricane Season 2010 Damages/Impacts Response Recovery Actions Lessons Learnt 2

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Hurricane Season 2010 A very active season for the Caribbean and Atlantic. Jamaica’s events: Little Active for Jamaica Significant heavy rains (Sept 27-Oct 1) associated with TD #16 – later became TS Nicole Close call with Hurricane Tomas 5

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Impact from Heavy Rains (Sept27-Oct 2) The system resulted in incidences of: Land slippage Flooding Freak storms Disruption of utilities Damage to overall physical infrastructure Regrettably, loss of lives (14 deaths) 8

Impact from Heavy Rains (Sept27-Oct 2) Estimates of Damages and Losses amounted to: $ Million (US $ million) Disaggregated as $ million in damage and $ million in losses Publicly owned properties accounted for $ million or 93.9% Privately owned properties $ million Damage to overall physical infrastructure Regrettably, loss of lives (14 deaths) 9

Impact from Heavy Rains (Sept27-Oct 2) Estimates of Damages and Losses amounted to: Cost of the impact was equivalent to 1.9 per cent of current (2009) GDP Damage and losses in the infrastructure sector represented the greatest portion of impact accounting for over 88.06% Impact of the rains necessitated a downward revision in the projected GDP growth rate 10

Impact from Heavy Rains (Sept 27-Oct 2) IMPACT – Westmoreland 11 Savanna-la-mar Baptist (Heritage Site) Dalling Street – Freak Storm (house completely destroyed) House inundated – Big Bridge House inundated - Smithfield

Impact from Heavy Rains (Sept 27-Oct 2) IMPACT – St. Catherine 12 Sylvester Drive - Bannister (Big Pond) Sections of roadway broken away – Tredegar Park Debris Debris blocked – Colburn Gully, Bushy Park Rio Cobre Drive - Lauriston

Impact from Heavy Rains (Sept 27-Oct 2) IMPACT – Chigwell, Hanover 13

Impact from Heavy Rains (Sept 27-Oct 2) IMPACT – New Market, St. Elizabeth 14

Impact from Heavy Rains (Sept 27-Oct 2) IMPACT – Harbour View Bridge, Kingston 15

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RESPONSE ACTIONS NEOC was activated Emergency services mobilised Humanitarian Assistance (ODPEM, Parish welfare teams, Red Cross) Parish Welfare teams activated for conducting IDA Rapid aerial reconnaissance 17

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Recovery Actions conducted & underway 20 Rehabilitation of roads and other infrastructure Community welfare/humanitarian assistance Reconstruction of homes, roofs and infrastructure Partnerships for sustainable mitigation and reconstruction – International donor community, local partner (private/public)

Lesson Learnt 21 Improper/Poor land use, building practices and coastal road design and construction Inappropriate location of settlements (formal and informal) Planning and Design deficiencies National Budget For Disaster Recovery Necessary National Budget for DRR (factored into agencies, ministries, departments and local governments

Way Forward 22 View Disaster Risk Management as a Development Matter (HVA and HIA) Strengthen the planning and enforcement capacity of LA’s or Establish RA’s Designate no build zones and enforce status Designate areas of high intrinsic environmental value protected areas Restore Watersheds

Way Forward 23 Complete a National Multi-Hazard Atlas at scales that facilitates Local Level Decision Making Complete National Spatial Plan, Coastal Zone Management Plan Develop National Settlement Policy/Strategy Raise Standards of Infrastructure and enforce these standards Enforcement, Enforcement, Enforcement

THANK YOU 24