Deck 6: Analyzing and Selecting Protective Actions: How to Make Effective Chioces

Question 1

LEMAs can be held liable by the public and courts if they fail to plan for known hazards and are judged to have managed incompetently.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Temporary shelter achieves food and sleeping provisions and allows victims to reestablish household routines in nonpreferred locations or structures.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Families can evacuate quickly as a unit at night.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The level of social vulnerability is the same within and across all communities.

Question 5

HAZUS-MH does not provide average annualized loss and probabilistic results from hazard models.

Question 6

Only one specific authority should be involved in making the decision about protective action recommendations (PARs).

Question 7

A disadvantage of protection in-place is that the communities buildings must be protective.

Question 8

A Community Vulnerability Assessment Tool (CVAT) comprises:

A) 5 modules
B) 6 modules
C) 7 modules
D) 8 modules

Question 9

CVAT is the following, except:

A) Narrowly based
B) Labor intensive
C) Less precise than HAZUS-MH
D) Low cost useful product for small communities.

Question 10

When selecting protective action recommendations, you should:

A) Select the least expensive alternative.
B) Identify available protective actions and how attributes differ.
C) Select one action and do not consider alternative actions.
D) Seek ideas and feedback from a limited number of people.

Question 11

HAZ-US can model:

A) Earthquakes
B) Hurricanes
C) Floods
D) Earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods

Question 12

One of the groups that has the highest level of social vulnerability is

A) Men
B) The poor
C) The affluent
D) College students

Question 13

Mapping can be:

A) Low-tech and hand drawn
B) High-tech with the use of software
C) Map secondary hazards
D) All of the above

Question 14

The following is true of evacuations:

A) Evacuations are an ineffective method of protection.
B) Most people do not have their own transportation and are left stranded.
C) Attempts to control the timing of returns usually fail.
D) Most families are not together in night evacuations.

Question 15

Reestablishment of disaster victim household routines in preferred locations and structures is achieved in:

A) Temporary housing
B) Permanent housing
C) Temporary shelter
D) Emergency shelter

Question 16

The planning process is never complete. At least once a _______ an emergency plan is prepared or revised.

Question 17

CVAT is comprised of seven modules used to produce your local ______________ assessment.

Question 18

In H/VA analyses the probability of disaster should be considered, with ________ probability threats given more attention.

Question 19

____________ tasks are inherent in choosing and implementing PAR's.

Question 20

What is emergency shelter?

Question 21

You are the emergency manager for New Orleans, Louisiana, and you need to evacuate the population ahead of a hurricane. Before you do this, you create an evacuation checklist. What items should be on your checklist?

Question 22

What is CVAT? Name three modules of CVAT and define their purpose.