The House Select Committee on Emergency Preparedness will be holding some hearings in Houston on Friday at the George R. Brown Convention Center. From the email I got about this:
Those testifying at the hearing include Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, Galveston Mayor Joe Jaworski, representatives of the GLO, RRC, TCEQ, the Harris County Sherriff’s Office, Houston Office of Emergency Management and Rice University.
The committee will be talking about evacuation plans, terrorist attacks on petrochemical plants, the possibility of an Ike Dike sea wall, the possibility of a deepwater horizon type event, and using social media to warn people about impending disaster.
Here’s a rough run down of proceedings.
9am-11am approx.
HSCEP s/c Hurricanes, Flooding and Evacuations – Hamilton (Chair), Taylor, Frost Focusing on hurricane preparedness – specifically evacuations, early warning systems and storm surge mitigation11am-1:30pm approx.
House Select committee on Emergency Preparedness (full committee) Focusing on how infrastructure, law enforcement and emergency planners prepare for major industrial accidents and homeland security threats relating to transnational criminal activity1:30pm-3pm approx.
HSCEP s/c Continuity of Government, Communication and Infrastructure Dutton (Chair), Strama, Lewis Focusing on judicial continuity in the aftermath of a hurricane, government communication during emergencies, and the recovery of critical infrastructure after disasters
All events will be in room 351. The official notices are posted here. These hearings will not be streamed but a recording will be made available at a later date. My thanks to committee clerk Benjamin Wright for the heads up.