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County Storm Response ~ Pescadero Gets a COW, PHS Gets a Generator and Helps HMB Set Up Temp Evacuation Site at Ted Adcock with Coastside CERT

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PRESS RELEASE. From San Mateo County County Executive’s Office in Redwood City – January 10, 2023:

Storm 2023: Response by the Numbers

Since storms began to pummel San Mateo County on New Year’s Eve, the County has provided aid and resources to local residents and cities.

Pescadero Gets a COW Cellular on Wheels, a mobile cellular network, stationed in Pescadero

 

A sign of the times on Highway 92 in Half Moon Bay.

 

Here is a by-the-numbers look at some of that assistance, often in partnership with cities, nonprofit organizations and others:

 

 

236: Displaced individuals temporarily housed in hotels

 

2,001: Meals served to displaced residents

 

160: Unhoused individuals enrolled in the Inclement Weather Program, which expands shelter capacity

 

72: Individuals served at temporary evacuation points countywide

 

40: Red Cross volunteers deployed

 

1: Generator to power much of Pescadero High School

 

San Mateo County Fire Engine 59 responds in Pescadero as floodwaters rise from Pescadero Creek

 

30: Generators distributed to households in Pescadero with members in need of electricity for medical issues

 

500 tons, or 1 million pounds: Bulk sand for sandbags (enough to pack 200,00 play pails)

 

21,000: Pre-made sandbags provided to local residents, used by County Department of Public Works

 

Filling sandbags at the County’s Grant Corporation Yard in Redwood City.

35,000: Empty sandbags provided to residents

 

15,000: Feet of twine to tie sandbags, the length of 14 Salesforce Towers or nearly twice as long as the Golden Gate Bridge

 

A COW, or cellular on wheels, in the field in Pescadero.

 

10,000: Zip-ties to tie sandbags

 

1: COW, or Cellular on Wheels, a mobile cellular network, stationed in Pescadero to help boost cellular service

 

1,417: Calls to Public Safety Communications for fire or emergency medical services on Dec. 31, 2022, the beginning of the storm (compared to about 400 calls on a normal Saturday)*

*Call 9-1-1 only in emergencies. An emergency is any serious medical problem (chest pain, seizure, bleeding), any type of fire (business, car, building), any life-threatening situation (fights, person with weapons) or to report crimes in progress.

 

Throughout the storm, County emergency response teams coordinate the response from the Emergency Operations Center on the County Center campus in Redwood City. Representatives from the American Red Cross, Pacific Gas & Electric, Cal Fire, California Highway Patrol and numerous other agencies and local organizations participated in the briefings as key players in the overall response.

 

 

484: Calls to 2-1-1 for storm-related, non-emergency assistance (through noon Jan. 10, 2023); top needs were shelter and sandbags.

 

Preparing for storm evacuees on the San Mateo County coast.

 

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    • THE MIDCOAST needs a multi-purpose Center to be used for public meetings, emergency evacuation and for a place where seniors could meet, after school programs for kids, and the general population could recreate. The Picasso Preschool can be that for the rate-payers of GCSD, but it has a few flaws 1.) that it’s location is often “Gridlock Central”; 2.) There isn’t ample parking 3.) It could be in a Tsunami Hazard Zone.

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