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Kerrville advisory panel flags ice-storm grid failures and neighbor-led responses as resilience priorities
Summary
Participants recounted multi-day outages during a recent ice storm and urged the comprehensive plan to address grid resilience, vulnerable households, community staging areas and neighbor-to-neighbor response capacity.
At a special advisory meeting on the comprehensive plan update, committee members and residents described the 2021 ice storm and associated grid failures as a key resilience lesson for Kerrville. The consultant framed resilience using FEMA’s definition—preparing for shocks, addressing chronic stressors and improving capacity to recover—and led an exercise to inventory threats and impacts.
Residents said outages lasted multiple days in some neighborhoods, leaving households without power, heat or…
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