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CHAPTER 17. MITIGATION ALTERNATIVES <br />17-8 <br />Table 17-6. Catalog of Mitigation Alternatives – Severe Weather <br />Personal Scale Corporate Scale Government Scale <br />Manipulate Hazard <br />1. None 1. None 1. None <br />Reduce Exposure <br />1. None 1. None 1. None <br />Reduce Vulnerability <br />1. Insulate house <br />2. Provide redundant heat and <br />power <br />3. Insulate structure <br />4. Plant appropriate trees <br />near home and power <br />lines (“Right tree, right <br />place” National Arbor <br />Day Foundation Program) <br />1. Relocate critical <br />infrastructure (such as <br />power lines) underground <br />2. Reinforce or relocate <br />critical infrastructure such <br />as power lines to meet <br />performance expectations <br />3. Install tree wire <br />1. Harden infrastructure such as locating <br />utilities underground <br />2. Trim trees back from power lines <br />3. Designate snow routes and strengthen <br />critical road sections and bridges <br />Increase Preparation or Response Capability <br />1. Trim or remove trees that <br />could affect power lines <br />2. Promote 72-hour self- <br />sufficiency <br />3. Obtain a NOAA weather <br />radio <br />4. Obtain an emergency <br />generator <br />1. Trim or remove trees that <br />could affect power lines <br />2. Create redundancy <br />3. Equip facilities with a <br />NOAA weather radio <br />4. Equip vital facilities with <br />emergency power <br />sources <br />1. Support programs such as “Tree Watch” <br />that proactively manage problem areas <br />through use of selective removal of <br />hazardous trees, tree replacement, etc. <br />2. Establish and enforce building codes that <br />require all roofs to withstand snow loads <br />3. Increase communication alternatives <br />4. Modify land use and environmental <br />regulations to support vegetation <br />management activities that improve <br />reliability in utility corridors <br />5. Modify landscape and other ordinances to <br />encourage appropriate planting near <br />overhead power, cable, and phone lines <br />6. Provide NOAA weather radios to the <br />public <br /> <br />