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Jen Horney: Only a
few coastal communities

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actually have predisaster
recovery plans in place.

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After the adoption of the National
Disaster Recovery Framework,

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there was an interest in determining
ways that we can measure

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the efficiency and effectiveness
of recovery.

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Now as part of the Costal
Resilience Center,

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we are going to continue the project.

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As many people are aware Texas
was impacted by severe flooding

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in May of 2015 and one of the
most impacted areas was around

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the community of Wimberley,
near Austin.

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Garett Sansom: We're in
Wimberly, Texas right now.

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We are on the foundation
of a house that was destroyed

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during the recent major flood.

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Tracking the recovery of communities

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is very important for several reasons.

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If you can properly assess how
the community reacted and what

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their doing, you better plan for
future disasters and you can

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better target certain groups for
interventions to help them out

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during the post disaster.

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The Disaster Recovery Tool will

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allow statistical analysis to be
performed on 79 specific metrics to

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look at items such as the
financial recovery of businesses,

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town meetings held, vulnerability of
populations, socioeconomic status.

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So its going to help with
both social scientists,

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the public health scientists.

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Its going to help with urban
planners, looking at

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how communities can be built
to help better withstand,

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have better resilience for disasters.

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Jen Horney: We really engaged
in the academic process of

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literature review, focus groups,
key informed interviews to

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try an identify metrics that
have been used in the past

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to quantify recovery.

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One of our goals with the tool is to
make it as flexible as possible.

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So users can just track one
focus area or one theme.

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The tool actually links out to

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the U.S. Census, the Bureau of
Labor Statistics and open FEMA

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so that end users can
actually just populate

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their data with a click
of the mouse.

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The data thats entered
into this tool could actually be

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used by practitioners, as part
of the development of a

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predisaster recovery plan.

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In the future we hope that the tool can

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inform communities about
priorities, gaps, other issues

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that they should be addressing in
predisaster planning, so that they

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can improve their recovery.

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For communities, improved resilence
is really what recovery should be about.

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