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03/20/2009 - Texas - Sabine Pass, TX Community Meeting Sabine Pass, TX has been in the bull’s eye of 34 tropical cyclones dating back to 1871. This small community, on the extreme southeastern tip of Texas, suffered catastrophic damages from Hurricane Rita in 2005 and Hurricane Ike in 2008. FEMA's Don Jacks brings you the story of FEMA’s ESF-14 Long Term Recovery staffers who are working closely with Sabine Pass residents on the rebuilding of this “magic piece of land” on the Texas Gulf Coast. That’s how resident Hope Henderson, who recently moved with her husband to Sabine Pass from Houston, describes her new home. mp3 (English / ~2MB / 3 minutes 3 seconds )
03/12/2009 - Texas - DAWG HAUS - Build Stronger/Build Safer As part of FEMA’s Mitigation Branch’s Community Education and Outreach Group, local technical school students learn to build houses safer and build them stronger through the DAWG HAUS project - Disaster Avoidance With Good Home Attenuating Unionization Systems. Students, using donated lumber and other materials from a local home improvement store, construct a 6 feet x 8 feet by 7 feet mitigated model of a house using FEMA plans. Hurricane straps are prevalent throughout. FEMA's Don Jacks, met students and faculty at Port Arthur, TX’s Stilwell Technical School and Beaumont, TX’s Taylor Technical School as they were embarking on building their DAWG HAUS. mp3 (English / ~1MB / 3 minutes 13 seconds )
03/03/2009 - Texas - Smith Point, TX Recovery – Part Two Smith Point, TX, a small fishing village on Galveston Bay’s eastern shore, suffered catastrophic damages from Hurricane Ike in Sept. 2008. The oyster fishing industry was decimated, but is coming back, hoping soon to regain its 70% share of the Texas oyster crop. FEMA's Don Jacks, continues his Smith Point recovery essay featuring several residents and Mayor Guy Jackson, Chambers County recovery steering committee chair. Residents express a positive outlook for the Smith Point oyster industry. mp3 (English / ~1MB / 2 minutes 48 seconds )
02/27/2009 - Texas - Smith Point, TX Long Term Recovery – Part One Smith Point, TX, a finger peninsular jutting into the eastern side of Galveston Bay, suffered catastrophic damage from Hurricane Ike in Sept. 2008. Recently, FEMA's Don Jacks, attended a long term recovery meeting in the village of 200 and spoke with Smith Point residents and Long Term Recovery Steering Committee members, Jennifer and Fred Anderson, who talked about Smith Point’s “new normal.” mp3 (English / ~1MB / 2 minutes 42 seconds )
02/13/2009 - Texas - Ike Registration Deadline The deadline for those impacted by Hurricane Ike is rapidly approaching. This is a 30 second PSA announcing the February 20 deadline for FEMA assistance applications. mp3 (English / ~442K / 28 seconds )
02/06/2009 - Texas - Texas Community Relations Teams FEMA’s Community Relations specialists have been providing face-to-face disaster assistance since Community Relations was formed in a 1995 Houston, TX flood disaster. Hurricane Ike’s Community Relations lead, Joe England, outlined for FEMA's Don Jacks how Community Relations workers “put a face” on the federal government following a disaster declaration as they go door-to-door delivering assistance information to disaster victims while “listening” to the disaster victim. mp3 (English / ~416K / 1 minute 46 seconds )
02/02/2009 - Texas - Volunteers Helping the Community After Ike FEMA’s Volunteers Helping in the Community, under FEMA Community Relations, has a unique mission to assist disaster victims with the multi-faceted assistance application process. FEMA’s Michel Desrosiers heads the program and spoke wth FEMA's Don Jacks on how FEMA reaches out to ease what is often described as a difficult process to receive disaster assistance and how FEMA learns about those in need of help. mp3 (English / ~460K / 1 minute 58 seconds )
01/30/2009 - Texas - FEMA Help Comes in Many Languages FEMA’s Community Relations teams offer translation services to disaster victims in a number of languages. The Houston/Webster Texas Area Field Office has a team of five Vietnamese translators working a Disaster Recovery Center in the heart of Houston’s Asian community. FEMA CR Specialist/Vietnamese team lead Nick Ho and DRC manager Michael Lewis explain to FEMA's Don Jacks the benefits of translating FEMA disaster assistance information. MP3 (English / ~582K / 2 minutes 28 seconds )
01/29/2009 - Texas - Mitigation: Build Smarter/Build Safer FEMA Hazard Mitigation Specialists are involved in “outreach” efforts by staffing mitigation information tables at coastal Texas home improvement stores. Mitigation Specialist Theresa Swank explained her efforts to FEMA's Don Jacks, as well as other mitigation specialists, to encourage Texas coastal residents to “build smarter and build safer” in advance of the next disaster event. MP3 (English / ~1MB / 2 minutes 31 seconds )
01/28/2009 - Texas - Mitigation: Cost Benefit Analysis FEMA Hazard Mitigation Specialists are involved in “outreach” efforts by staffing mitigation information tables at coastal Texas home improvement stores. Mitigation Specialist Theresa Swank explained to FEMA's Don Jacks FEMA’s mitigation principle “cost benefit analysis,” i.e., spending a dollar today on mitigation for a much larger return later. MP3 (English / ~849K / 2 minutes 4 seconds )
01/12/2009 - Nationwide - Administrator Paulison's Twitter Event A recording of discussions that took place during Administrator Paulison's Twitter Event at FEMA HQ in Washington, DC. mp3 (English / ~6MB / 43 minutes 57 seconds ) pdf (English / ~119K) txt (English / ~25K)
12/29/2008 - Nationwide - Resolve to be Prepared in 2009 Preparedness Tips for 2009 from Dennis Hunsinger, Deputy Regional Administrator, FEMA Region X mp3 (English / ~189K / 49 seconds )
12/22/2008 - Nationwide - Winter Preparedness Tips Tips for Winter Preparedness from Dennis Hunsinger, Deputy Regional Administrator, FEMA Region X mp3 (English / ~620K / 2 minutes 38 seconds )
12/18/2008 - Texas - One Family's Story How one Texas family impacted by Hurricane Ike is faring in their FEMA provided temporary home. mp3 (English / ~792K / 1 minute 58 seconds )
12/18/2008 - Nationwide - Working together - FEMA & The Aidmatrix Foundation When disasters happen, a large number of people want to help by donating time, talents or products. Left unmanaged, these good intentions can go to waste by creating a disaster within a disaster. In this FEMA RNN Podcast, hear how FEMA and the Aidmatrix Foundation are working together to get the right aid to the right people at the right time. mp3 (English / ~1MB / 4 minutes 52 seconds )
12/08/2008 - Texas - Nature Doesn’t Respect Maps In Part 2 of an interview with FRNS, FEMA Insurance Specialist Gloria Prince encourages people who do not live in special flood hazard areas to consider buying flood insurance. OC: …flood hazard areas.” mp3 (English / ~307K / 20 seconds )
12/08/2008 - Texas - Limits of Disaster Assistance In part four of an interview with FRNS, FEMA Insurance Specialist Gloria Prince explains the difference between disaster assistance and flood insurance coverage. OC: "through having insurance.” mp3 (English / ~513K / 33 seconds )
12/08/2008 - Texas - Flooding in Bridge City In part three of an interview with FRNS, FEMA Insurance Specialist Gloria Prince talks about how Bridge City, TX flooded in locations not identified as special flood hazard areas proving it really can flood anywhere, anytime. OC: "flood anywhere, anytime." mp3 (English / ~667K / 42 seconds )
12/08/2008 - Texas - Purpose of Flood Insurance In an interview with FRNS, FEMA Insurance Specialist Gloria Prince discusses the purpose of the National Flood Insurance Program. Outcue: "you're insured." mp3 (English / ~307K / 19 seconds )

03/20/2009 - Texas - Sabine Pass, TX Community Meeting Sabine Pass, TX has been in the bull’s eye of 34 tropical cyclones dating back to 1871. This small community, on the extreme southeastern tip of Texas, suffered catastrophic damages from Hurricane Rita in 2005 and Hurricane Ike in 2008. FEMA's Don Jacks brings you the story of FEMA’s ESF-14 Long Term Recovery staffers who are working closely with Sabine Pass residents on the rebuilding of this “magic piece of land” on the Texas Gulf Coast. That’s how resident Hope Henderson, who recently moved with her husband to Sabine Pass from Houston, describes her new home.

mp3 (English / ~2MB / 3 minutes 3 seconds )

03/12/2009 - Texas - DAWG HAUS - Build Stronger/Build Safer As part of FEMA’s Mitigation Branch’s Community Education and Outreach Group, local technical school students learn to build houses safer and build them stronger through the DAWG HAUS project - Disaster Avoidance With Good Home Attenuating Unionization Systems. Students, using donated lumber and other materials from a local home improvement store, construct a 6 feet x 8 feet by 7 feet mitigated model of a house using FEMA plans. Hurricane straps are prevalent throughout. FEMA's Don Jacks, met students and faculty at Port Arthur, TX’s Stilwell Technical School and Beaumont, TX’s Taylor Technical School as they were embarking on building their DAWG HAUS.

mp3 (English / ~1MB / 3 minutes 13 seconds )

03/03/2009 - Texas - Smith Point, TX Recovery – Part Two Smith Point, TX, a small fishing village on Galveston Bay’s eastern shore, suffered catastrophic damages from Hurricane Ike in Sept. 2008. The oyster fishing industry was decimated, but is coming back, hoping soon to regain its 70% share of the Texas oyster crop. FEMA's Don Jacks, continues his Smith Point recovery essay featuring several residents and Mayor Guy Jackson, Chambers County recovery steering committee chair. Residents express a positive outlook for the Smith Point oyster industry.

mp3 (English / ~1MB / 2 minutes 48 seconds )

02/27/2009 - Texas - Smith Point, TX Long Term Recovery – Part One Smith Point, TX, a finger peninsular jutting into the eastern side of Galveston Bay, suffered catastrophic damage from Hurricane Ike in Sept. 2008. Recently, FEMA's Don Jacks, attended a long term recovery meeting in the village of 200 and spoke with Smith Point residents and Long Term Recovery Steering Committee members, Jennifer and Fred Anderson, who talked about Smith Point’s “new normal.”

mp3 (English / ~1MB / 2 minutes 42 seconds )

02/13/2009 - Texas - Ike Registration Deadline The deadline for those impacted by Hurricane Ike is rapidly approaching. This is a 30 second PSA announcing the February 20 deadline for FEMA assistance applications.

mp3 (English / ~442K / 28 seconds )

02/06/2009 - Texas - Texas Community Relations Teams FEMA’s Community Relations specialists have been providing face-to-face disaster assistance since Community Relations was formed in a 1995 Houston, TX flood disaster. Hurricane Ike’s Community Relations lead, Joe England, outlined for FEMA's Don Jacks how Community Relations workers “put a face” on the federal government following a disaster declaration as they go door-to-door delivering assistance information to disaster victims while “listening” to the disaster victim.

mp3 (English / ~416K / 1 minute 46 seconds )

02/02/2009 - Texas - Volunteers Helping the Community After Ike FEMA’s Volunteers Helping in the Community, under FEMA Community Relations, has a unique mission to assist disaster victims with the multi-faceted assistance application process. FEMA’s Michel Desrosiers heads the program and spoke wth FEMA's Don Jacks on how FEMA reaches out to ease what is often described as a difficult process to receive disaster assistance and how FEMA learns about those in need of help.

mp3 (English / ~460K / 1 minute 58 seconds )

01/30/2009 - Texas - FEMA Help Comes in Many Languages FEMA’s Community Relations teams offer translation services to disaster victims in a number of languages. The Houston/Webster Texas Area Field Office has a team of five Vietnamese translators working a Disaster Recovery Center in the heart of Houston’s Asian community. FEMA CR Specialist/Vietnamese team lead Nick Ho and DRC manager Michael Lewis explain to FEMA's Don Jacks the benefits of translating FEMA disaster assistance information.

MP3 (English / ~582K / 2 minutes 28 seconds )

01/29/2009 - Texas - Mitigation: Build Smarter/Build Safer FEMA Hazard Mitigation Specialists are involved in “outreach” efforts by staffing mitigation information tables at coastal Texas home improvement stores. Mitigation Specialist Theresa Swank explained her efforts to FEMA's Don Jacks, as well as other mitigation specialists, to encourage Texas coastal residents to “build smarter and build safer” in advance of the next disaster event.

MP3 (English / ~1MB / 2 minutes 31 seconds )

01/28/2009 - Texas - Mitigation: Cost Benefit Analysis FEMA Hazard Mitigation Specialists are involved in “outreach” efforts by staffing mitigation information tables at coastal Texas home improvement stores. Mitigation Specialist Theresa Swank explained to FEMA's Don Jacks FEMA’s mitigation principle “cost benefit analysis,” i.e., spending a dollar today on mitigation for a much larger return later.

MP3 (English / ~849K / 2 minutes 4 seconds )

01/12/2009 - Nationwide - Administrator Paulison's Twitter Event A recording of discussions that took place during Administrator Paulison's Twitter Event at FEMA HQ in Washington, DC.

mp3 (English / ~6MB / 43 minutes 57 seconds ) pdf (English / ~119K)

txt (English / ~25K)

12/29/2008 - Nationwide - Resolve to be Prepared in 2009 Preparedness Tips for 2009 from Dennis Hunsinger, Deputy Regional Administrator, FEMA Region X

mp3 (English / ~189K / 49 seconds )

12/22/2008 - Nationwide - Winter Preparedness Tips Tips for Winter Preparedness from Dennis Hunsinger, Deputy Regional Administrator, FEMA Region X

mp3 (English / ~620K / 2 minutes 38 seconds )

12/18/2008 - Texas - One Family's Story How one Texas family impacted by Hurricane Ike is faring in their FEMA provided temporary home.

mp3 (English / ~792K / 1 minute 58 seconds )

12/18/2008 - Nationwide - Working together - FEMA & The Aidmatrix Foundation When disasters happen, a large number of people want to help by donating time, talents or products. Left unmanaged, these good intentions can go to waste by creating a disaster within a disaster. In this FEMA RNN Podcast, hear how FEMA and the Aidmatrix Foundation are working together to get the right aid to the right people at the right time.

mp3 (English / ~1MB / 4 minutes 52 seconds )

12/08/2008 - Texas - Nature Doesn’t Respect Maps In Part 2 of an interview with FRNS, FEMA Insurance Specialist Gloria Prince encourages people who do not live in special flood hazard areas to consider buying flood insurance. OC: …flood hazard areas.”

mp3 (English / ~307K / 20 seconds )

12/08/2008 - Texas - Limits of Disaster Assistance In part four of an interview with FRNS, FEMA Insurance Specialist Gloria Prince explains the difference between disaster assistance and flood insurance coverage. OC: "through having insurance.”

mp3 (English / ~513K / 33 seconds )

12/08/2008 - Texas - Flooding in Bridge City In part three of an interview with FRNS, FEMA Insurance Specialist Gloria Prince talks about how Bridge City, TX flooded in locations not identified as special flood hazard areas proving it really can flood anywhere, anytime. OC: "flood anywhere, anytime."

mp3 (English / ~667K / 42 seconds )

12/08/2008 - Texas - Purpose of Flood Insurance In an interview with FRNS, FEMA Insurance Specialist Gloria Prince discusses the purpose of the National Flood Insurance Program. Outcue: "you're insured."

mp3 (English / ~307K / 19 seconds )

Last Modified: Wednesday, 25-Mar-2009 09:01:04 EDT