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Catherine
Bohn, GISP
Senior Project Manager
I've worked with Dewberry for 20 years, helping
and updated it as new high water mark information
communities recover from disasters and become more
was obtained. The flood depth grid enabled FEMA
resilient. Beginning with Hurricane Floyd in 1999,
to focus its resources on impacted areas and quickly
I've been deployed to disaster areas in several states,
identify structures that may have been damaged. We
coordinating with the Federal Emergency Management
then dispatched teams to the field for several weeks to
Agency (FEMA), state governments, and localities to
perform damage estimates-work that was just wrapping
assess damage and provide support to those impacted by
up when Hurricanes Hermine and Matthew hit the East
severe storms.
Coast weeks later. For Hurricanes Hermine and Matthew,
Today, I stay closer to home to manage post-disaster
we provided flood depth data and damage assessment
response efforts so that our teams have the resources and
information to FEMA on an expedited basis from Florida
technology they need to prepare critical information on
to North Carolina.
the extent of a storm's impact. This can include developing
I've learned firsthand how difficult it is to work
a model for debris estimation, implementing a field data
for weeks and months in the field on post-disaster
collection application, or tracking the status of damage
response, but it doesn't compare to what the victims of
assessments through a web-based geospatial portal.
these storms must endure. In Louisiana, some of our
We recently supported FEMA in the response and
employees understand this well, as they have seen their
recovery efforts for the August flooding in southern
own neighborhoods and those of family and friends
Louisiana. Our geospatial specialists worked around
devastated by the flooding. Their personal resilience, and
the clock to assemble an initial flood depth grid and
determination to help others around them, has been
damage assessments within 48 hours of FEMA's request
especially inspiring.
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