In addition, OEM staff volunteered to serve on several important working groups of the Texas Emergency Management Advisory Council (TEMAC), to address compelling public safety issues identified by the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM). OEM aspires to influence how TDEM supports local jurisdictions and to provide constructive input on state requirements before they become binding on the entirety of the state. The EMC volunteered to serve on a working group exploring the integration of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) into emergency operations centers; the OEM deputy participated in TEMAC’s shelter and evacuation working group. Due to her unsurpassed knowledge of the subject, compassion for STEAR registrants, and a longstanding need to evolve state policy and evacuation capability, she also volunteered to serve on the STEAR working group.
OEM continued its efforts to exert a positive influence on the National Hurricane Program’s Southeast Texas Hurricane Evacuation Study, the stated goal of which is to “assess, modify, or develop hurricane evacuation/risk zones for 2025.” The study, largely
undertaken under contract by the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center and Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University provides an opportunity for local jurisdictions to influence how the study is conducted, to ensure its findings are valid and the resulting data useful to affected jurisdictions. OEM participated in several regional meetings throughout FY25 as the last three of the study’s five components were concluded.
Behavioral Analysis
Transportation Analysis
Aspires to estimate the percentage of a threatened population that will evacuate, based on storm category. Seeks to to identify evacuation destinations Reliably estimate: How many members of each household will evacuate The number of vehicles they will utilize How many will evacuate with trailers
Explores the capacity of evacuation routes to accommodate evacuation traffic
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The final report was delayed, to integrate additional modeling data and is expected to be published in February 2026. In the interim, OEM staff intervened with program managers to explore how the behavioral analysis was conducted given that the public survey on which it historically rests was unfunded.
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