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Water and Wastewater All-Hazards Boot Camp
Response
Response
Response
Hurricane Aaron affected South Florida in a way where we had heavy rains, we had heavy winds, and the wind gusts were such that it wasn't safe to be outside. So what we ended up having to do as a utility is not only activate our plan for hurricane preparedness… (the rest of the sentence fades).
We had several employees work in the same area, excuse me, they lived in the same area, so they helped each other. When they got out of their neighborhood, they went to a coworker's neighborhood and helped them get out. So, we could recover a lot faster at the plant by each other helping themselves get out of their homes, get out of their neighborhoods and then start going back to the plant in order to make sure the plant could recover quickly.
Our plant serviced about 56,000 people and during that time - the whole hurricane event - no one lost service, there were no sanitary sewer overflows, and everybody was able to not have any negative impacts because of our planning.