The Richmond-Crater Multi-Region Hazard Mitigation Plan identifies vulnerabilities associated with a variety of hazards and sets out long-term strategies to reduce or eliminate risks. The plan highlights floods, severe wind events and tornadoes as high-risk hazards for the region.
How are you?
Nothing has been simple in 2020, neither questions nor answers.
With its first confirmed case in Virginia on March 7, COVID-19 and the virus that causes it, SARS-CoV-2, tore through communities and separated loved ones. It wreaked uncertainty and unknowns, masks and mandates, loneliness, fear, anger, exhaustion and mourning.
The new coronavirus has affected every person, every day, in almost every way: careers, finances, education, nutrition, housing, faith, business, politics, travel, family and relationships. It’s changed how people connect with the world and each other. It has upended priorities.
Early on, it seemed like preparing for a Richmond snow day. We hustled to the grocery store. We made runs for toilet paper and hand sanitizer. We brought children home from school, temporarily. But that scenario gave way to the realization that a pandemic was bearing down.