2022 06 21 City Council
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63 The committee shared their personal experiences of winter weather events that have occurred in McMinn County, and all jurisdictions within. The following is transcribed from their thoughts. Experience has been across the board with winter weather as well. From Operating as IC in a power outage / multi‐incident event to ensure crit ical need Residents are stocked with supplies. Winter weather is an issue every year in McMinn County. The school system routinely uses several allocated snow days for snow and ice events. Occasionally, power is lost. McMinn County uses a ranking system to determine each jurisdiction’s vulnerability to freezes/winter storm events. This system is based off simple arithmetic which analysis’s potential impacts to determine vulnerabilities and then analysis’s the probability of a freeze/winter storm event occurring to calculate a risk ranking for each jurisdiction. Jurisdiction Impacts Vulnerability Human Property Business H+P+B=#; #/3=V McMinn County Unincorporated 2 3 1 2 City of Athens 2 3 1 2 City of Etowah 2 3 1 2 City of Niota 2 2 1 1.67 Jurisdiction Vulnerability Probability Risk V+P=R McMinn County Unincorporated 2 3 5 City of Athens 2 3 5 City of Etowah 2 3 5 City of Niota 1.67 3 4.67 Scale Low 2‐3.6 Moderate 3.7‐5.2 Medium 5.3‐6.8 High 6.9‐8.4 Severe 8.5‐10 144