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<br /> <br />"W'm'_" <br />Part Two: Mitigation Success Storle.~- <br /> <br />7\- <br /> <br />. .. . "~~'~'l!;~ <br />:'.~ " ,~.~: :~:::"~""!h0;:;4:!/~:e~i&" ..- . <br />. ' , '., .' '''.''''.~ -t..",.;.. '.w .. <br /> <br /> <br />. obtain funding to make the necessary retrofits: and <br /> <br />provide the technical assistance necessary to allovl/ communities to implement <br />the retrofits. <br /> <br />The real benefits of the public school program go well beyond the direct assistance <br />provided to schools and other public buildings, including hospitals, libraries, and <br />health and police departments, In several instances, communities started their <br />own programs patterned after the state's field assessments and mitigation projects, <br />Swain County replaced glass in several schools with glazing, plexiplastic, or other <br />shatter,resistant material as part of its general maintenance schedule, Other <br />measures included boiling library bookcases to walls to prevent heavy books from <br />falling and injuring students and stafL <br /> <br />The program has been a mitigation success, More than S 165,000 in grants from <br />the North Carolina Earthquake Program directly benefited 18 counties, and more <br />than] 00 schools and public buildings, The long,term success of this initiative will <br />be judged by the ripple effect, and measured by the systematic incorporation of <br />non,structural mitigation techniques into routine maintenance programs, That <br />way, when the next earthquake does impact western North Carolina, there should <br />be less damage and fewer injuries or casualties, <br /> <br />NORTH CAROLINA TAKES THE LEAD ApPLYING <br /> <br />HAZUS 10 EsTIMATE FUTURE EARTHQUAKE LOSSES <br /> <br /> <br />Norrh Carolina has become a national demonstration state for the <br />application of HAlas, a Geographic Information System,based <br />"regional earthquake loss estimation methodology" Developed <br />by FEMA in cooperation with the National Institute for Building <br />Sciences, HAZUS is imended to provide locaL smte, and regional <br />officials with tools to estimate damage from a variety of seismic <br />scenarios. Efforts to reduce risk can be simulated and results can <br />stimulate plans for mitigation, emergency response, and recov~ <br />ery. <br /> <br />HAlas can provide: <br /> <br />. Quantitative estimates of losses, in terms of direct costs for repair <br />and replacement of damaged buildings and lifeline system components; <br />direct costs associated with loss of function such as loss of business <br />revenue and relocation costs; number of casualties: number of people <br />displaced from residences; quantiry of debris: and regional economic <br />impacts. <br /> <br />. Functionality losses, in terms of loss~of-function and restoration times <br />for critical facilities such as hospitals, components of transportation and <br />utility lifeline systems, and simplified analyses of loss,of,function for <br />electrical distribution and potable water sysrems, <br /> <br />. Extent of induced hazards, in terms of fire ignitions and fire spread. <br />and exposed population and building value due to porential dam,failure <br />flooding and hazardous materials incidents, <br /> <br />There are several applications for HAZUS in North Carolina. HMPI communities and <br />others can use it to forecasr the loss of functionality of state and federal highway <br />system bridges (see graphic below), This is valuable information for emergency <br />response, business continuity planning, and other applications, HAlaS can estimate <br />