Profiles in Resiliency
A Western Nevada Development District Webinar
Join Us! Friday, March 19, 2021 at 9 am till 11 am
Presented by the WNDD Economic Recovery & Resiliency Council
One of the nation’s most devastating wildland fire events that turned into an urban inferno consuming 5,600 structures, and a hurricane which dumped enough water along the Gulf Coast to depress the earth’s crust, have become lessons in resiliency for the communities of Santa Rosa, CA and Houston, Texas.
In that same year, there was a quieter disaster as consumer credit reporting agency Equifax saw a massive breach to its web application that led to the loss of millions of records containing the social security numbers and birthdates 145.5 million people.
Join Santa Rosa City Manager Sean McGlynn, Jillian Donatto, Senior Planner of the Houston-Galveston Area Council and who will discuss the disaster events of 2017 that caused devastation and tremendous economic injury to their communities and how those recovery efforts are focused on future resiliency. They will be joined by U.S. Army Colonel (Ret.) Mark R. Schonberg, President of TerraScale, who will present the newest element in disaster recovery and resiliency, cybersecurity.
Discussions will include:
- Crisis events and their impacts
- Economic challenges resulting from the impacts
- Recovery efforts
- Keys to planning for future resiliency
- Lessons learned – what would they do differently
Explore all Aspects of Recovery and Resiliency
Hurricane Harvey was a Category 4 storm that hit Texas on August 25, 2017. It caused $125 billion in damage according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm dumped 1 trillion gallons of rain on Houston in four days, forcing 32,000 people out of their homes and into shelters There were 61 drinking water facilities that were inoperable and 203 boil-water notices in effect. Another 40 wastewater treatment facilities were inoperable.
The Tubbs Fire started the evening of Oct. 8, 2017 and burned a total of 36,807 acres in Napa and Sonoma counties — destroying 5,636 structures and resulting in the deaths of 22 civilians Much of the fire’s destruction was in Santa Rosa, particularly in the Coffey Park and Fountaingrove neighborhoods. The estimated cost of the fire’s destruction is between $7.8 to more than $10 billion.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights that we have entered the internet of all things, people and systems. Connectivity is essential for creating and sustaining economic growth and providing improved government services. This has also introduced enormous risks. Business and government agencies are increasingly a target for hackers and cybercrime, both globally and locally: SolarWinds, a major US information technology firm, was the subject of a cyberattack that spread to its clients and went undetected for months. In 2019, the Lyon County School District was the victim of a computer ransomware virus attack.
