HomeMy WebLinkAbout09 BCCD Minutes and Attachments 09.01.1977 BRAZOS COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE MEETING
September 1, 1977 - 5:00 P.M.
TAMU -0 & M Building - Radar Room
PRESENT:
Bryan: Charles Phelps, Joe C. Ellisor, Tom Bryner,
Louis Odle, Don Van Huss
College Station: George Huebner, Marvin Byrd, Douglas Landera
TAMU: James Presswood, Tom Parsons (PD)
Brazos County: Judge W.R. Vance, Gary Shaw (50 )
Archie Clark (So ) , Carroll W. Bell,
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PRESIDING: Jake Canglose, County Director
SUBJECT: Our problems and plan of action in the event of a
hurricane threat to the nearby gulf coast:
(Hurricane Anita has been a threat for several days but
moved southwest to enter Mexico, 130 miles below Brownsville
this morning.)
Jake Canglose identified those present who had participated
in accommodating those who came to Bryan - College Station for
shelter and food during the Hurricane Carla in 1961.
The route and threat of the current Hurricane Anita was
reviewed. It entered Mexico below Brownswood this morning. Had
it travelled north west and entered the Galveston area we could
have been flooded with people from the gulf coast and had a lot
of wind and rain. j
The steady wind of 50 MPH and up can blow buildings down.
Steady gales cuase damage. Gusts of wind can often be withstood.
Tornados may be spawned of the hurricane.
Procedures in the event of a hurricane warning:
When the DPS starts issuing hurricane Watch in areas
east of us we can start getting ready.
When the DPS issues warning a central point of coordination
will be set up in the County Courthouse.
The Brazos County Emergency Council - County Judge and
Civil Defense Driector, Bryan Mayor, City Manager, and College
Station Mayor and City Manager will assume control of preparations
and actions
Communications (telephone, Radio, and runner) will be set
up between the Courthouse and the emergency operation centers
of Bryan, College Station and Texas A & M University. (There are
28 telephone wires ready in the courthouse)
Civil Defense Meeting - September 1, 1977 page 2
Emergency Couuuitties will be set up in the Courthouse or
assigned areas to handle the different facets of need.
These Committees (24 Hours a day consist of:
1. Registration of people arriving from other areas.
2. Signs for directing people.
3. Public information center.
4. Pony Scouts, TC'S Citizens for errands and assistance.
5. Citizens Board, etc connection
6.
Units of acitivity in the event of disaster:
1. Use news media as a source of information to the
people entering that need help.
2. When the motels and hotels are full tell the people
to come to a central point to register on cards ie.
courthouse. Be? locating places public and private
for housing the people.
Boy Scouts and other serve as guides to move the people
to their housing locations.
Need coordination point for housing people in nearby
Counties.
_3. Red Cross has money for feeding - Red Cross and City
officials meet to arrange for issuing neal tickets.
4. Arrange for Civil Defense Control of out of City
telephone lines in the event of breakdown. (in 1961
only one telephone line out was left).
5. Arrange for coordination with state agencies thru
the D.P.S.
$. The County -City Helth Department will be ready to
provide help to people with health problems. Needed
vacanations, medicines - ie for heart, diabetes, ect.
7. Coordinations with units on the coast as to when the
people can return to their homes.Re -entry to home
counties as to when it becomes approved and advisable
can use local radio to broadcast this information.
Often can identify a key person for a group from a
common area to give the current information.
8. Evacuation orders at the gulf coast may provide about
12 hours of warning for us to become prepared.
Civil Defense Meeting - Spetmeber 1977 page 3
9. Police serve as system of supply checks and report..
ie - if milk and bread are low at grocery stores
report this and arrangements will be made to secure
these from outside our area.
10. All legal local communications will continue to
function but keep in touch with the central coordi-
nation point.
Referral to hospitals when needed.
CIVIL DEFENSE MEETING
September 1, 1977
1. Judge Vance asked, "do we still have our records from the 1961, Carla ?"
Jake answered, "yes, they are packed away."
2. Check with telephone compnay on current status of Civil Defense stand -by
telephone lines in the courthouse. 28 of them.
.Judge Vance suggested considering these lines should stub -off at the
Courtjouse lobby switchboard. Maybe ten lines could be connected to
the swithcboard to be ready.
3. Consider Radio Cowinunications between Police, firemen, sheriff, DPS, etc.
one unit in courthouse and one on DPS desks.
4. Survey appartments - names, locations, who to contact, phone number.
(Hassell Free Program) Perry Switzer. Y.M.C.A. first floor. TAMU has this.
5. In response to the '
p possible location of a county wide emergency operating
center, Judge Vance recommended the use of the courthouse section from
the Judges office thru to the Couunissioners office if needed.
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OFFICE OF JAMES PRESSWOOD
COUNTY DIRECTOR AND CHAIRMAN TEXAS A& M UNIVERSITY DIRECTOR
CIVIL DEFENSE & EMERGENCY PLANNING
E.E. BURNS GEORGE L. HUEBNER
COUNTY DEPUTY DIRECTOR COUNTY COURTHOUSE COLLEGE srAnon DIRECTOR
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