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The Director ofOrmgc Comity's Planning Departmeat (or Bagnmc] person) should torso as Nhtigaboa Commons of the plan and assue updating the plan on an annual (3, 4, 5 years) basis. no Elai (Board stag conanimw) should meat on the recticar dam and prepare a report of the status of Ne mitigationprogress. This report should include. areview of the goals, objectives, accomplishments, revisions, Rise why my objection not mot, why pry ads maybe behind schedule, recomme ambons ter new pryeck and review new disasters Nat may have occurred_ Appendix A: Hazard Identification and Analysis Introduction Orange County is blessed with an abundance offish neural resources, assailed and as vital as the purple who live here. This bounty provides the county's residents with wonderha place to cull home, but Nee are also inherent dangers, From time to ban, mincers, winds mppled twos, severe winter atoms imm abused moron, heavy miss from NuMastosms causes flooding. Storms, hoods and uNdfires are apart of the neNral balance ofNe emiwunent. But when such events cmurwhere people have made theirhames sand built Weubminesses, Nereml[s can be ticvaslating. Natural avd mclmelogical M1azards con wmskhearoc in and ms ansHaned communities, supdng Ne Flow ofgoods turd services, datroyingpropxly end dlNrg people's lives. Hazard Identification Orange County is aminerable to anumba of natural haysrds including hurricanes, poetics nonseasonal mr'eastecs,thundemmrma severe winter sta=and wildfires. TescMok ical bazmds such as ohomical spills, plane mashes, or dam failures can be as import as mutual homes. Althe is each harerd coment be predictal, they can be loss disruptive to amities with hazed mitigation placating. Each hazard is unique m Orange County in must of likelihood of occurrence. impact and fisluency, Explanation of Terms Types Of Haards: Gillette County experecams many differont typ® ofnatum hazards. Some likely them mile as b occur. DiReferd boards call for dificrent hazard omission nine. TTe preferred approach is to consider ell she hazmdst INreat®Orange County end focus on those [Nat pose the geener risk.