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Chapter•5:Hazard Analysis—Tropical Cyclones <br /> Project Description Status <br /> Hawaii Residential Safe Room Requirements for room construction NOAA and DBEDT <br /> features are given in the State sponsored research project to <br /> Building Code;effective by 2011 for develop and test wall <br /> those homes that do not provide assemblies rated for safe <br /> glazing windbome debris protection. room use. <br /> Hurricane Storm Surge Study(2008) Funded by FEMA for updating the Completed <br /> flood zones in the DFIRM on south <br /> and west coast <br /> Provide higher-grade poles for electrical PUC and utility to adopt use of Proposed Project <br /> distribution Hawaii topographic windspeeds for <br /> use with the National Electric Safety <br /> Code. <br /> Develop a Hurricane Loss Estimation . Expected hurricane risk levels Proposed Project: The <br /> Model(HLEM)software available for (i.e.,expected loss as a function of HLEM could provide <br /> Hawaii State and County planning return period)could be technically validated input on <br /> including state-of-the-art regionally- determined for a geocoded hurricane hazard and <br /> validated storm windfield modeling and building inventory database using vulnerability pertinent to <br /> tracking,topographic speedup modeling, the wind hazard analysis by State and County agencies. <br /> terrain category and building inventory Peterka combined with the Chock <br /> databases defined with detailed spatial topographic wind and building <br /> resolution,and regional building damage damage model. The Average <br /> and loss functions. State-of-the-art Annualized Losses due to could <br /> hurricane loss estimation requires be then calculated windstorms for <br /> regionally-validated storm windfield individual communities to <br /> modeling and tracking,topographic determine their risk relativity <br /> speedup modeling,terrain category and factors.This would allow an <br /> building inventory databases defined with objective ranking of hurricane risk <br /> detailed spatial resolution,and regional for regions or areas(such as <br /> building damage and loss functions. The census tract groupings),taking <br /> two NASA-sponsored projects have into account hurricane <br /> developed the core computational probabilities,site-specific wind <br /> components of what could be developed environment,and the building <br /> into Hurricane Loss Estimation Model inventory existent in each study <br /> (HLEM)software available for Hawaii region. <br /> State and County planning. <br /> Hurricane/MMS Upgrade for Hawaii Include the unique topographic wind USCOE-sponsored project for <br /> effects into the output of the model 2011 <br /> used as a tool for emergency <br /> response/evacuation decision- <br /> making,to allow identification of the <br /> topographically amplified wind <br /> speeds for any defined cyclone <br /> scenario. <br /> 5-20 Hawaii County Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan <br />