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The Economics of Rebuilding Stronger

When do you reduce mitigation measures that might help with the next disaster?

There isn't always a cut and dried answer to rebuilding with stronger building codes following a disaster -- if it means rebuilding wont occur. See this article, Texas City Eases Standards for Rebuilding Homes After Tornadoes.

If you were the emergency manager in that city, what would you advise? If you were the building official, would that recommendation differ from yours? If you are the elected official representing citizens from your precinct in the city, how would you vote? If you were the disaster czar and could mandate any course of action, what would it be?

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.