Transcript Hurricane Season 2010

Snapshots of Hurricane
Season 2010 – Impacts and
Lessons Learnt
5th Annual Caribbean Conference on
Comprehensive Disaster
Management
“CDM: Strengthening Partnerships for
Resilience”
December 6-10, 2010
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OUTLINE
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Events Hurricane Season 2010
Damages/Impacts
Response
Recovery Actions
Lessons Learnt
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JAMAICA
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JAMAICA
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Hurricane Season 2010
A very active season for the Caribbean
and Atlantic. Jamaica’s events:
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Little Active for Jamaica
Significant heavy rains (Sept 27-Oct 1)
associated with TD #16 – later became
TS Nicole
Close call with Hurricane Tomas
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Key Points to Note
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Impact from Heavy Rains
(Sept27-Oct 2)
The system resulted in incidences of:
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Land slippage
Flooding
Freak storms
Disruption of utilities
Damage to overall physical infrastructure
Regrettably, loss of lives (14 deaths)
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Impact from Heavy Rains
(Sept27-Oct 2)
Estimates of Damages and Losses amounted to:
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$20 573.5 Million (US $ 239.5 million)
Disaggregated as $19 506.9 million in damage and
$1 066.5 million in losses
Publicly owned properties accounted for $19 318.8
million or 93.9%
Privately owned properties $1 254.6 million
Damage to overall physical infrastructure
Regrettably, loss of lives (14 deaths)
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Impact from Heavy Rains
(Sept27-Oct 2)
Estimates of Damages and Losses amounted to:
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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
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Impact from Heavy Rains
(Sept 27-Oct 2)
IMPACT – Westmoreland
Savanna-la-mar Baptist (Heritage
Site)
House inundated – Big Bridge
Dalling Street – Freak Storm
(house completely destroyed)
House inundated - Smithfield
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Impact from Heavy Rains
(Sept 27-Oct 2)
IMPACT – St. Catherine
Sylvester Drive - Bannister (Big Pond)
Debris blocked – Colburn Gully, Bushy
Park
Sections of roadway broken away –
Tredegar Park
Rio Cobre Drive - Lauriston
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Impact from Heavy Rains
(Sept 27-Oct 2)
IMPACT – Chigwell, Hanover
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Impact from Heavy Rains
(Sept 27-Oct 2)
IMPACT – New Market, St. Elizabeth
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Impact from Heavy Rains
(Sept 27-Oct 2)
IMPACT – Harbour View Bridge, Kingston
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Preliminary ECLAC estimates by the PIOJ
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RESPONSE ACTIONS
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NEOC was activated
Emergency services mobilised
Humanitarian Assistance (ODPEM,
Parish welfare teams, Red Cross)
Parish Welfare teams activated for
conducting IDA
Rapid aerial reconnaissance
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Recovery Actions conducted &
underway
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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)
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Lesson Learnt
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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
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Way Forward
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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
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Way Forward
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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
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THANK YOU
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