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Be prepared, be very prepared
| 题名： | Be prepared, be very prepared |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 摘要： | In flood defence terminology, people talk about one in 100-year events - a flood event with a 1 % annual exceedance probability. It is worth considering that this year is the 70th anniversary of the North Sea floods, which devastated the east coast of England, the Netherlands and Belgium from 31 January 1953. In total, more than 2,550 people are thought to have died, hundreds of them in England. From 14-18 November last year, in areas including those that saw such destruction 70 years ago, dedicated local teams were hard at work making sure we are prepared for the next 'big one'. FloodEx22 was a five-day tabletop exercise organised by Lieutenant Colonel Andy McCombe, who recently retired from a successful 44-year military career that saw him specialise in complex logistical and organisational challenges - FloodEx22 being his last hurrah. His connection to local resilience work came in part through his role as joint regional liaison officer for the East Midlands. In 2015, while he was deputy chair of the East Coast Flood Group, he formed the voluntary Trent Catchment Flood Group and in 2018 he ran a flooding resilience exercise with nine counties in the Trent catchment area. |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | Highways |
| 卷： | 92 |
| 期： | 2 |
| 页码： | 24,26 |
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