Sandy Post Mortem: Office of Emergency Management
Township employees look at what worked and what fell short during the tropical storm and look towards the future.
The first 90 minutes of the Springfield Township Committee meeting on Tuesday, Nov. were devoted to a Post Mortem on Springfield’s response to Sandy. The consensus among department heads and officials was that lessons from the previous year’s major disruptive weather events, Irene and the October Snowstorm, where learned and applied, but that additional resources were needed to prepare the township for future storms. The departments all noted that storage and procurement of fuel and generators presented a challenge in the storm and would factor heavily in planning for coming storms. Springfield Office of Emergency Management Coordinator Scott Seidel garnered praise from his fellow presenters for his performance during Sandy. He said that …
Kari
2:50 am on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
After Katrina, I remember thinking "that would never happen up north". Well, there are still people in Staten Island and Long Island who do not have power, if they even still have their homes. I learned a lot about how to survive in this kind of emergency, and I hope we all did. As we went without power and heat for two weeks, I kept a battery operated radio tuned to 1010 WINS and I remember … more ›