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1 Introduction
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... Harvey shattered records for the most rainfall from a tropical cyclone in the United States, inundating southeast Texas. Irma was the strongest Atlantic storm ever observed outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, and its path across Florida led to the largest hurricane evacuation in U.S.
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... To aid this examination, FEMA turned to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study the factors that affect private sector supply chains during hurricane events, to examine lessons learned on how private sector and government response plans and planning can best collaborate, and to help advance understanding of factors, such as: • the state and knowledge of pre-incident networks and capacity of critical supply chains, distribution systems, and infrastructure; • how these systems were affected by the storms, and how subsequent response actions produced further effects on network integrity and operations; • the network structures, linkages, and behaviors most adaptable to effective intervention; and • how supply chain systems can be strengthened in the short term to be efficient in day-to-day operations, and made adaptable to sustain integrated disaster and human itarian supply chain operations during disasters, especially catastrophic events. This study was designed to address those needs and to respond to the specific Statement of Task, as shown in Box 1.1.
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... and to help develop options for strengthening supply chains in future hurricane seasons. The committee and the MIT investigators held periodic discussions throughout the study process, thus providing several opportuni ties for informing each other's thinking during their respective activities.
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... . In each location, the committee met with an array of public officials and managers, including numerous FEMA officials, private sector stakeholders, and others ­ involved in maintaining the functioning of supply chains before, during, and after the 2017 storms.
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... groups and individuals that may be involved in local-scale, immediate stages of emergency response. These emergency management professionals who can help ensure the resilience of critical supply chains in the face of disaster events are based not only in FEMA, but also in numerous state and local agencies, and private sector and nongovernmental organizations.


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