Team Norfolk Update 1/6/17 @ 5:30pm

Team Norfolk,

Since our last update, a Blizzard Warning was announced by the National Weather Service and state of emergencies declared by Governor McAuliffe and City Manager Mr. Smith.

The amazing folks throughout our community who make up Team Norfolk and are all in place and thorough, inclusive and comprehensive plans being executed as we speak. 

Norfolk is ready.

As discussed during our last coordination call, it was determined situation updates should be expected around 8am, 1pm and 8pm both Saturday and Sunday.  To be respectful of everyone’s time, the coordination calls will be among those primarily responsible for the incident goals and objectives – i.e Mass Care (warming stations for our residents experiencing homelessness), Infrastructure (roads, bridges and facilities) and Communications.  These updates will then be immediately communicated to the entire Team via Norfolk Alerts and the Team Norfolk blog.

This does not mean anyone is excluded - quite the opposite. With the (virtual) activation of the Emergency Operations Center, any questions, reports or resource needs can and should be communicated to us at any time.  Moreover, we will be reaching out as the situation dictates in order to address any curve balls which arise. 

As always, please take notes of all that goes well over the weekend and what needs improvement.  This storm is one more incident which will serve to strengthen our Team and our plans.

Thank you, please stay safe and stand by for the morning’s update!

Sincerely,

Jim
Director, Norfolk EOC
james.redick@norfolk.gov