Power Outage Preparedness and Concern among Vulnerable New York City Residents

Dominianni, Christine; Ahmed, Munerah; Johnson, Sarah; Blum, Micheline; Ito, Kazuhiko; Lane, Kathryn

doi:10.1007/s11524-018-0296-9

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“…Our individual-level survey did not find evidence of socioeconomic differences in exposure, but provided some evidence for socioeconomic differences in preparedness, with less educated respondents less likely to be prepared for an outage. This is consistent with evidence that socioeconomic barriers may hinder preparing for outages ( 45 , 46 ).…”

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The 2021 Texas Power Crisis: distribution, duration, and disparities

Flores

McBrien

et al. 2022

J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol

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Background Precipitated by an unusual winter storm, the 2021 Texas Power Crisis lasted February 10 to 27 leaving millions of customers without power. Such large-scale outages can have severe health consequences, especially among vulnerable subpopulations such as those reliant on electricity to power medical equipment, but limited studies have evaluated sociodemographic disparities associated with outages. Objective To characterize the 2021 Texas Power Crisis in relation to distribution, duration, preparedness, and issues of environmental justice. Methods We used hourly Texas-wide county-level power outage data to estimate geographic clustering and association between outage exposure (distribution and duration) and six measures of racial, social, political and/or medical vulnerability: Black and Hispanic populations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), Medicare electricity-dependent durable medical equipment (DME) usage, nursing homes, and hospitals. To examine individual-level experience and preparedness, we used a preexisting and non-representative internet survey. Results At the peak of the Texas Power Crisis, nearly 1/3 of customers statewide (N = 4,011,776 households/businesses) lost power. We identified multiple counties that faced a dual burden of racial/social/medical vulnerability and power outage exposure, after accounting for multiple comparisons. County-level spatial analyses indicated that counties where more Hispanic residents resided tended to endure more severe outages (OR = 1.16, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.40). We did not observe socioeconomic or medical disparities. With individual-level survey data among 1,038 respondents, we found that Black respondents were more likely to report outages lasting 24+ hours and that younger individuals and those with lower educational attainment were less likely to be prepared for outages. Significance Power outages can be deadly, and medically vulnerable, socioeconomically vulnerable, and marginalized groups may be disproportionately impacted or less prepared. Climate and energy policy must equitably address power outages, future grid improvements, and disaster preparedness and management.

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The 2021 Texas Power Crisis: distribution, duration, and disparities

Flores

McBrien

et al. 2022

J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol

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“…Scientists have identified that the elderly are more vulnerable to climate-related stressors [ 180 ], though they tend to be better prepared for disasters than young people [ 181 ]. A lot of articles are trying to estimate the health risks of the older population [ 182 ] and their vulnerability [ 180 ] when exposed to natural disasters.…”

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Wind disasters adaptation in cities in a changing climate: A systematic review

et al. 2021

PLoS ONE

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Wind-related disasters will bring more devastating consequences to cities in the future with a changing climate, but relevant studies have so far provided insufficient information to guide adaptation actions. This study aims to provide an in-depth elaboration of the contents discussed in open access literature regarding wind disaster adaptation in cities. We used the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to refine topics and main contents based on 232 publications (1900 to 2019) extracted from Web of Science and Scopus. We conducted a full-text analysis to filter out focal cities along with their adaptation measures. The results show that wind disaster adaptation research in cities has formed a systematic framework in four aspects: 1) vulnerability and resilience of cities, 2) damage evaluation, 3) response and recovery, and 4) health impacts of wind disaster. Climate change is the background for many articles discussing vulnerability and adaptation in coastal areas. It is also embedded in damage evaluation since it has the potential to exacerbate disaster consequences. The literature is strongly inclined towards more developed cities such as New York City and New Orleans, among which New York City associated with Hurricane Sandy ranks first (38/232). Studies on New York City cover all the aspects, including the health impacts of wind disasters which are significantly less studied now. Distinct differences do exist in the number of measures regarding the adaptation categories and their subcategories. We also find that hard adaptation measures (i.e., structural and physical measures) are far more popular than soft adaptation measures (i.e., social and institutional measures). Our findings suggest that policymakers should pay more attention to cities that have experienced major wind disasters other than New York. They should embrace the up-to-date climate change study to defend short-term disasters and take precautions against long-term changes. They should also develop hard-soft hybrid adaptation measures, with special attention on the soft side, and enhance the health impact study of wind-related disasters.

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“…Allerdings waren weniger als 1 % auf Heimbeatmungsgeräte angewiesen; die meisten waren abhängig von einer externen Sauerstoffzufuhr [ 25 ]. Auch in den USA konnte gezeigt werden, dass gerade vulnerable Gruppen unzureichend auf derartige Ereignisse vorbereitet sind und insbesondere damit einhergehende Risiken nicht hinreichend ernst genommen werden [ 15 ].…”

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Erkenntnisse aus 31 Stunden Stromausfall in Berlin Köpenick – medizinische Schwerpunkte und Herausforderungen

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Brettschneider²,

Kleist³

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ZusammenfassungAm 19.02.2019 kam es nach Durchtrennung eines 110-kV-Kabels zu einem großflächigen Stromausfall im Berliner Bezirk Treptow-Köpenick. Nachfolgend waren ca. 30.000 Haushalte ohne Strom; betroffen waren ca. 70.000 Menschen. Der Stromausfall dauerte mehr als 24 h an und stellte alle Beteiligten vor eine Vielzahl von Herausforderungen. Es wurde der Führungsstab (operativ-taktisch) einberufen, in dem auch medizinische Schwerpunkte fortlaufend identifiziert und reevaluiert werden mussten. Hierbei handelte es sich mitunter um die Identifikation von besonders gefährdeten Patienten wie beispielsweise heimbeatmeten Patienten oder Patienten mit Kunstherz. Weiterhin mussten einzelne Pflegeheime evakuiert werden. Im Verlauf war es notwendig, aufgrund des Ausfalls der Stromversorgung im Schadensgebiet, eine Intensivstation bzw. „Intermediate-care“-Station mit 23 Patienten zu evakuieren. Krankenhäuser müssen sich im Rahmen von Vorplanungen auf derartige Szenarien einstellen. Weiterhin müssen seitens der zuständigen Behörden Vorplanungen erfolgen, die die besonderen Bedürfnisse von vulnerablen Gruppen beinhalten.

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Power Outage Preparedness and Concern among Vulnerable New York City Residents

Cited by 31 publications

References 35 publications

The 2021 Texas Power Crisis: distribution, duration, and disparities

The 2021 Texas Power Crisis: distribution, duration, and disparities

Wind disasters adaptation in cities in a changing climate: A systematic review

Erkenntnisse aus 31 Stunden Stromausfall in Berlin Köpenick – medizinische Schwerpunkte und Herausforderungen

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