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Hennepin County hazard Mitigation Risk/Vulnerability <br /> 2. Vulnerabilities <br /> • Mail of America <br /> • World famous venue <br /> • Proximity to international airport <br /> • Attracts large numbers <br /> • Politically sensitive businesses <br /> • Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) <br /> • Serves 34 million passengers annually <br /> • Northwest Airlines has a significant presence in the <br /> Far East, origination point of SARS and swine flu <br /> o Reliever airport Flying Cloud in Eden Prairie <br /> o Most of the South sector is in the flight path of MSP <br /> • 302 facilities (111) — see map <br /> • Vulnerable populations <br /> • Elderly, impaired <br /> • Concentrated in high rises <br /> • Possibility of rapid spread of disease <br /> • Immigrant population . <br /> • Tuberculosis in recent immigrants <br /> • Difficulty communicating emergency <br /> information to non-English speaking <br /> populations <br /> • Transportation <br /> • Freeways <br /> • In path of airport <br /> • Light rail <br /> • Railroads <br /> • Flooding <br /> • Nine Mile Creek <br /> • Pioneer Creek <br /> • Purgatory Creek <br /> • Low-lying areas <br /> • Repetitive loss structures (as defined by the NFIP) <br /> • Bloomington (1) <br /> • Edina (5) <br /> • St. Louis Park (1) <br /> 9 <br /> T)AV Nn-s M Rid-Veil—hilitu 4­­t`inn <br />