{"id":43146,"date":"2026-07-28T10:59:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=43146"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:59:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:59:56","slug":"mitigating-damages-caused-by-severe-weather-and-other-hazards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/43146-mitigating-damages-caused-by-severe-weather-and-other-hazards\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitigating Damages Caused by Severe Weather and Other Hazards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Identifying projects and activities that can protect Effingham County residents, property, and critical infrastructure from natural and man-made hazards will be discussed when the Effingham County Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee meets at the Effingham County Emergency Operations Center, 311 West Miracle Ave., in Effingham, at 1 p.m. on Thursday, July 30.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSevere weather frequently damages buildings, crops, roads, and other critical infrastructure in this area. The County has been a part of seven emergency and major federal disaster declarations through 2025. In addition, there have been at least five fatalities, 16 injuries, and $55.3 million in verified property and insured crop damages caused by hazard events in the County,\u201d said Effingham County Emergency Management Agency Coordinator, Pamela Jacobs. \u201cThe goal of this planning process is to identify preventative steps that can be taken before a hazard event occurs to protect public health and reduce the dollar damages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This Committee began work in January 2026 to update the County\u2019s All Hazards Mitigation Plan. Committee meetings are open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther emergency plans are directed at responding during and after a storm or disaster strikes. With this Plan, we will identify actions that can be taken to reduce damages caused by natural and man-made hazards for each participating jurisdiction before they occur. This Plan also helps assure each participating jurisdiction is eligible to receive federal grant money for mitigation projects,\u201d added Jacobs.<\/p>\n<p>Building community safe rooms, acquiring flood prone properties, resolving drainage issues, retrofitting critical infrastructure to better withstand hazard events, installing back-up power supplies, and developing public information materials are a few of the mitigation projects more commonly proposed in Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identifying projects and activities that can protect Effingham County residents, property, and critical infrastructure from natural and man-made hazards will be discussed when the Effingham County Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":43147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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