A Prepared Community Is a Resilient Community

Video Description

The purpose of this field hearing is twofold: first it is to discover to the extent possible how the tremendous investments made, by city, state, and federal governments since Superstorm Sandy have mitigated the risk to the New York City Metropolitan Area from another extreme weather event. Are we more resilient as a community? Secondly, the hearing will feature testimony directly from the stakeholders who were both involved in the Sandy response and who will likewise be implicated in any future disaster response. How did they perceive the disaster response at the time of Sandy? How have they worked together to adapt their disaster response plans or policies based on the lessons learned since then? Are we more prepared as a community? Responding to a disaster necessarily involves the whole of the affected community: government, both state and local, non-profits, private enterprise and other civic organizations. The two panels reflect this institutional diversity in disaster response.