UpdatedWed, Dec 16, 2020 at 4:38 pm ET
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(Pinellas County Government)
PINELLAS COUNTY, FL — Pinellas County has launched a new Disaster Risk Survey as part of an effort to understand our community's vulnerabilities to a major disaster. Residents and Pinellas County business owners can access the survey by visiting https://www.opentownhall.com/10050.
A major disaster in this context, is defined as a large-scale natural or man-made disaster, that could cause massive-scale reconstruction of our buildings and infrastructure; redevelopment of neighborhoods; and/or recovery of our families and businesses.
The survey is a part of Pinellas County's post-disaster redevelopment planning efforts, which is supported by a recent $75,000 Resilience Planning Grant awarded to the county by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, under the State of Florida's Florida Resilient Coastlines Program. The grant funding is being used to identify local community's vulnerabilities. The aftermath of a major disaster event such as a hurricane is extremely complicated and could mean several months or years of recovery. This could disproportionately impact some of our families, neighborhoods and businesses, based on several factors such as income, locational risks, presence of young children or elderly, etc.