1,000 miles from Houston, Cincinnati emergency planners watch flooding closely
Past natural disasters help local teams assist residents during times of crisis
Past natural disasters help local teams assist residents during times of crisis
Past natural disasters help local teams assist residents during times of crisis
Watching what's happening in Houston, Steve Juran can't help but think about what once happened to his family.
"Just thinking about what it was like when we got hit by the tornado in 1999," Juran said.
Juran's house in Sycamore Township was ripped apart by a twister that also touched down in Blue Ash, Montgomery and other neighboring communities. Four people died.
"Devastating is the word," Juran said. "It was just really scary. You don't realize how quickly your whole life can be turned upside down."
Keeping the lives of Hamilton County residents from being upended is Nick Crossley's job.
As director of the county's , Crossley is paying close attention to the situation in the Lone Star State.
"If this happened here in Hamilton County, how prepared are we?" Crosley said. "What might we need to beef up? And so as the event unfolds and maybe in a week or two or three when it becomes more stable, we'll sit down and go, 'What are parts we could improve on?' And we'll start to work on those parts of the system."
바카라게임 investigator Todd Dykes asked Crossley if he could envision a scenario that would prompt a massive evacuation throughout Greater Cincinnati.
"I never say never," Crossley said. "A tropical depression is a lot different that the kind of rain events we've seen, even with the river rising back in '97. It still only gets to a certain level and it stops."
Still, Crossley knows some weather events could force residents in certain neighborhoods to leave their homes.
"You have to be prepared to handle all of them, because our citizens have to go somewhere, whether they go to Columbus, whether they go to Indianapolis, whether they go to Brown County," he said. "Wherever they might go, we need to make sure we're prepared to coordinate and provide good public information and tell them what to do and when to do it."
Juran says what happened to his family nearly 20 years ago gave him a deep level of respect for emergency workers and relief organizations.
"The police were great," Juran said. "The was great. They had ... bottled water for everybody, cause you don't even have water at that point."
When disaster strikes, little things certainly matter, but Juran said simply surviving matters most of all.
"The only thing that really matters is that the people survive. You can replace everything else. You can get a new house, you can replace possessions, as long as the people survive."