Local effect of Katrina

National Disasters Focus State And Local Officials On Planning
A Category 3 hurricane that hit the Connecticut shoreline could wipe out power for more than 3 million residents for up to a month, said Paul Gibb, a state emergency management supervisor specializing in natural disasters. Government could easily be “paralyzed” for three days, he said.
With disaster on their minds and $1.4 million in federal homeland security money available, state officials in three departments — public safety, transportation, and emergency management and homeland security — are revising plans for the state's five designated emergency zones.
If a hurricane hit tomorrow, those plans, supplemented by specific local arrangements, would determine how people are notified and, if necessary, how and where they would evacuate.
But plans continue to develop. Following a directive from Gov. M. Jodi Rell, state officials are working on a plan that local emergency experts could use as a basis for more detailed arrangements in each zone.
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