Laserfiche WebLink
Lamar County Multi- jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan <br />Chapter Two <br />• No tornado or hazardous weather warning in county <br />• Water shortage <br />• Food shortage due to other hazards <br />• Hail associated with storms. <br />• Water treatment plant and waste water. <br />• Gas compressor station fire /explosion <br />• Intentional act, e.g. water contamination, anthrax; <br />7. Have any of the hazards listed above affected you while living in Lamar County? <br />If yes, which one(s)? <br />This response indicated that many of the Lamar County residents have actually experienced first -hand many <br />of the most concerned hazards. <br />There were 82 individual responses with comments describing which hazards affected them in Lamar County <br />in the past. The hazards listed in these responses correlate very well with the hazards of most concern listed <br />in questions 3 -5. The majority of these responses were tornado, high winds, power outage and storms. <br />8. Do you have flood insurance? <br />JR9 4 <br />This response of only about 16% of the respondents having flood insurance correlates well with flooding <br />concerns in questions 3 -5, where only about 11% indicated that they were very or somewhat concerned <br />about a flooding hazard. <br />9. If you live in a rural area of Lamar County, how far do you live from the nearest town? <br />The majority of the survey respondents live within 15 miles of the nearest town. Lamar County is <br />approximately a square county of 932 square miles. The <br />distance from the northwest to the southeast corners of the <br />county is 50 miles, and from the southwest to the northeast <br />corner is 42 miles. Any residential location within Lamar County <br />is less than 25 miles from Paris, the county seat. <br />10. If you live in a rural area, which town /community do <br />you live nearest? <br />36 <br />