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2024 Hennepin County All -Jurisdiction Hazard Mitigation Plan <br />Volume 2 — Hazard Inventory <br />4.2.1.14. Response <br />One of the most important things to be done during the initial response is to make sure that people are <br />safe. If their homes have been damages and are unlivable, finding a place for them to stay is among one <br />of the top priorities. Next is the access to places if roads are washed out or still underwater. One <br />complicated factor with flood disasters, is sometimes you do not know how bad the damage is until the <br />water recedes, which can take time and slow the response. Another important part of response is to make <br />sure water supply is available as quick as possible if there has been any contamination. The role of <br />Hennepin County Emergency Management is to coordinate resources that our municipalities may need <br />to accomplish all response needs. <br />4.2.1.15. Recovery <br />As mentioned in river flooding, recovery from floods can take weeks, to months, to years. Urban flooding <br />is unlike quick disasters (e.g., tornadoes) where you can see the damage immediately, sometimes with <br />urban flooding you must wait for the flood waters to recede to find out what damage there is to recover <br />from. A lot of the time, the longer the water level stays too high, the more consequences are introduced <br />that you must then recover from. <br />4.2.1.16. References <br />Bumsted, J. M. 1997. Floods of the Centuries. Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications. <br />Chang, Heejun, and Jon Franczyk. 2008. 'Climate Change, Land -Use Change, and Floods: Toward an <br />Integrated Assessment'. Geography Compass 2 (5): 1549-1579. doi:10.1111/j.1749- <br />8198.2008.00136.x. <br />Dartmouth.edu. 2015. 'Dartmouth Flood Observatory'. http://www.dartmouth.edu/floods/Archives/. <br />Doswell, Charles A., Harold E. Brooks, and Robert A. Maddox. 1996. 'Flash Flood Forecasting: An <br />Ingredients -Based Methodology'. Wea. Forecasting 11 (4): 560-581. doi:10.1175/1520- <br />0434(1996)011<0560:fffa i b>2.0.co; 2. <br />Gourley, Jonathan J., Jessica M. Erlingis, Yang Hong, and Ernest B. Wells. 2012. 'Evaluation of Tools Used <br />For Monitoring and Forecasting Flash Floods in the United States'. Wea. Forecasting 27 (1): 158- <br />173. doi:10.1175/waf-d-10-05043.1. <br />Greene, Scott, Yang Hong, Mark Meo, Baxter Vieux, Jonathan Looper, Zhanming Wan, and Amy Goodin. <br />2015. Urban Flooding and Climate Change. EBook. 1st ed. <br />http://eos.ou.edu/hazards/urbanflooding/files/Urban_Flooding_Brochure.pdf. <br />Huntington, Thomas G. 2006. 'Evidence for Intensification of the Global Water Cycle: Review and <br />Synthesis'. Journal of Hydrology 319 (1-4): 83-95. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.07.003. <br />Jung, I.-W., H. Chang, and H. Moradkhani. 2011. 'Quantifying Uncertainty in Urban Flooding Analysis <br />Considering Hydro -Climatic Projection and Urban Development Effects'. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 15 <br />(2): 617-633. doi:10.5194/hess-15-617-2011. <br />37 <br />