Hurricane Ike Rapid Needs Assessment

Hurricane Ike Rapid Needs Assessment
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Liberty University

The combination of the world’s growing population and increased incidence of natural disasters proves that emergency response plans are needed to maintain civil order within both urban and rural areas. The Hurricane Ike Rapid Needs Assessment for the Houston area provides a quick estimation of the needs of the people at days 5 and 6 after the incident. The information gleaned from this assessment is to be used in establishment of personal needs cells, which provide food, water, electricity generators prioritized by medical needs, medicines, and other health maintenance items (toiletries). Many needs and issues
Furthermore, people did not have access to pharmacies, restaurants, and grocery stores, which created a serious need for basic medicine treatments and sustenance. Many individuals experienced health issues from inability to access to their regularly prescribed medicines, headaches, diarrhea, sleeplessness, and respiratory problems. Proper documentation of these instances and usage of the data observed from this catastrophe will allow for better preparedness in the future as well as more accurate predictive capability. This will increase the functionality and effectiveness of these health nodes/cells within the city. Additionally, proper use of the data will optimize the emergency preparedness and faith-based assets deployed after a natural disaster
They are trained in a multitude of tasks, as they are the Army! They know how to prepare meals for the masses in field kitchens, provide blocks of instruction for operation and safety for generators and other equipment distributed after the disaster, and organize, manage and move large quantities of inventory. Regular training and certification for designated faith-based organization volunteers would be helpful in setting up mobile soup kitchens, reducing deaths resulting from inexperience in operating certain pieces of equipment, and getting the much needed supplies to the people that need them without “shrinkage” of stock from theft. Data is only as good as the collection and maintenance mechanisms are. Unfortunately, concerns for the validity of the data arose when looking at the experience level of the data collectors, response bias, and using the coin-toss (50/50) method for obtaining direction to travel to each cluster of responses identified in the survey. Ensure both the scientific approach and procedures are well within standard, but also ensure that the common sense factor is considered as well. Sometimes the sensible approach can be lost in the algorithms and