REPORT ON
STORM PREPARATIONS
1-28-22
Below
is a summary of our Departmental activities in preparation for the storm to
begin Saturday morning and continue until late Saturday night.
Our
staff began preparing on Tuesday for this event, we are ready to respond.
We are being advised to be most concerned with high tide on Saturday
evening at 8:48 pm. We are likely to experience
some minor to moderate flooding in northeast and north facing locations.
Temporary road closures are likely.
Additionally,
high winds will cause significant drifting of snow which will lead to some
roadway closures and will prolong the clean-up activities.
If
the forecast changes, we are prepared to adjust our plans to meet the
conditions as necessary.
Chief
Russo, our Emergency Management Director, will be actively managing the event
response with Deputy Fire Chief Frazier.
We are fortunate that Chief Russo and all our staff have many years of
experience with these types of events.
DEPARTMENT
REPORTS
- PUBLIC WORKS
DEPARTMENT
·
All departmental
equipment is ready to be deployed as needed
·
Sufficient sand, salt
and fuel stockpiled.
·
Staff and
sub-contractors on-call and ready for the event.
·
We are prepared
for several days of full scale operations
·
Straits Pond has been lowered in
preparation for the storm
·
Dune openings have been
fortified
- FIRE DEPARTMENT
- All staff and vehicles
ready
- Central and
Greenhill Station operational and fully staffed
- POLICE DEPARTMENT
- All staff and vehicles
ready
- Winter Parking ban
in place – Code Red Reminder to be issued
- Bay Street to be
made one way temporarily to aid in snow removal
- We urge any resident
that can park off-street to do so, it will help plowing operations
·
LIGHT DEPARTMENT
·
Two stand-by crews will be stationed in Town for the duration of the
event to address any outages that may occur.
·
Generators are ready if the National Grid
lines that feed the Town fail. Please remember the generators only work when the is a power loss to the entire Town.
·
If there are downed lines in Town
which cause a loss or power to a neighborhood or a portion of the Town, repairs
to those downed lines will be made as quickly as possible.
·
The generators will not power areas
that lose power due downed lines in Town. The generators only
work when there is a loss of power due to failure of the National
Grid lines that feed the entire Town.
- SEWER DEPARTMENT
·
Staff will be on-site for duration of the event
·
All pumps have been exercised and are ready if needed
- EMERGENCY OPERATIONS
CENTER
- Staff ready to open
if necessary
·
COMMUNICATIONS
·
Code Red messages will be issued
regarding Parking restrictions, and general advisory
·
This memo will be posted on Town Web
Site, Cable TV, and the Emergency Management Facebook page and to the Hull
Times.
·
Citizen information can be found at
the following sites:
§ Town of Hull Web Site: www.town.hull.ma.us
§ Facebook: Townof- Hull
§ Facebook: Hull Emergency Management
§ Hull Cable TV
On behalf of the members of the
Selectboard and all Town employees we want to thank the residents of Hull in
advance for their patience during the storm and while we clean-up in the
aftermath of the storm.
Historically, Hull residents have
shown a remarkable level of resilience and fortitude during storms. Please be assured that your public servants will
do all we can to assist during the storm.
Conditions are often dangerous and our ability to restore services can
at times be complex and protracted; however, we will not stop until the job is
done.
We are all proud to serve you. We recognize storm events are very disruptive
and cause a great deal of concern. We
appreciate your understanding, and we are confident that our 375 year tradition
of Hull self-reliance and perseverance will continue for many years to come.
Thank you.
Sincerely and on Behalf of All or Employees
and the Town of Hull Selectboard
Phil Lemnios
Hull Town Manager
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