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e <br /> Hennepin County Hazard Mitigation Risk/Vulnerability <br /> 2. Vulnerabilities <br /> • take Minnetonka <br /> 0 14,000 acres <br /> o bounded by 14 cities <br /> o Large boating population in summer <br /> • Weather events <br /> • Exurban and rural area <br /> • Tornado — significant touchdown in 1965 <br /> • Floods <br /> • Ice storms— lines not repaired for several days <br /> • Warning/notification <br /> • New developments may not be covered by sirens <br /> • People do not react appropriately to sirens <br /> • 302 facilities (31) — see map <br /> • Repetitive loss structures (as defined by the NFIP) <br /> • Tonka Bay (1) <br /> • Wayzata (1) <br /> 3. Mitigation Opportunities <br /> • Move utilities underground to avoid outages during ice <br /> storms and summer storms <br /> • 'Purchase generators for critical facilities during power <br /> outages <br /> • Encouragement of use of NOAA weather radios— require in <br /> new developments <br /> • Public education on meaning of sirens and proper action to <br /> take <br /> • Remove or rehabilitate repetitive loss structures <br /> • Encourage wind resistant construction and retrofit <br /> • Enlarge culverts — Example —Tamarack(toad in Medina <br /> (would also affect Elm Creek) <br /> 4. Current/Completed Projects <br /> • All cities in the Lake Minnetonka area have agreed to a joint <br /> emergency operations plan <br /> 14 <br /> nAV W.—d A.--t A- <br /> 1 <br />