Tsunami Disaster Cache Storage Best Practices - by Susan Graves Consulting, LLC


EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI COMMUNITY DISASTER CACHE 

Planning Guide Written and Prepared by: SUSAN M. GRAVES Susan M. Graves Consulting, LLC
This planning guide is intended to assist communities to prepare for earthquakes and tsunamis, and is for information purposes.

Click HERE for the full guide (introduction below)

"A Community Disaster Cache is a stock of supplies designed to support a local population in its response to a disaster. Disaster caches take many forms and can be designed to accomplish different purposes. Along the Pacific Northwest (PNW) coast, numerous groups have developed disaster caches in various forms and have lessons to share. The goal of this Planning Guide is to distill such information to assist communities as they prepare for the next great earthquake and tsunami that will strike the PNW coast of Oregon and Washington.

A Cascadia subduction zone earthquake and accompanying tsunami occurring today would be catastrophic, killing thousands, while displacing tens of thousands of residents and visitors.  Many coastal communities are unprepared to deal with the level of destruction and disruption they will experience in the hours to days following the earthquake and tsunami.

A critical component of any initial post-disaster recovery is having disaster caches established in every coastal community. This will enable the public to survive without federal or state aid during the days and weeks after the event. Although there are resources for disaster planning for individuals, there are notably fewer resources available to assist communities trying to plan at a larger scale. This is because there are many complex social and logistical issues to consider when developing a community disaster cache, including:
  • How many people should it serve and for how long?
  • How much does it cost and who owns it?
  • What do we put in it and how much do we put in it?
  • How do we fund it?
  • Where can we store it?
  • How do we maintain it?
This Guide draws upon many collective experiences to help answer these questions and make the process more manageable for those getting started.

WHAT IS INSIDE THE GUIDE?

Developing a successful and sustainable Community Disaster Cache involves a four-step planning process:

 1) Design, 2) Implementation, 3) Maintenance, and 4) Deployment 

This Guide explores and discusses each of the four steps of the disaster cache development planning process necessary for creating feasible plans tailored to suit a community’s unique characteristics (e.g., population, geography). Included in this report is considerable information regarding what supplies and equipment to include in a cache, planning worksheets and templates, examples of written agreements, sample budgets and supply lists, and sample task cards. Featured are eleven case studies where disaster cache projects have been successfully implemented, highlighting what has worked for others."

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