{"id":14487,"date":"2022-09-29T00:11:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T00:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/?p=14487"},"modified":"2022-10-04T20:29:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:29:53","slug":"ncc-hosts-storm-resiliency-and-preparation-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2022\/09\/ncc-hosts-storm-resiliency-and-preparation-event\/","title":{"rendered":"NCC Hosts Storm Resiliency and Preparation Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"gmail_default\">N\u200bash Community College hosted a Storm Resiliency and Preparation Event on Wednesday, September 28, 2022 that helped bolster preparedness of utility workers, county leaders, emergency management personnel and community partners for storm response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The event was held in collaboration with Duke Energy Storm Resiliency and Preparation team members, Nash County Emergency Management officials and Nash Community College.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail_default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC_0854-24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"836\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC_0854-24.jpg 2100w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC_0854-24-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC_0854-24-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC_0854-24-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 836px) 100vw, 836px\" \/> \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n&#8220;As Hurricane I<span class=\"gmail_default\">\u200ban\u200b<\/span> bears down on the U.S., the immediacy and relevance of the information shared couldn\u2019t be more timely,&#8221; Nash Community College Vice President of \u00a0Continuing Education &amp; Economic\/Workforce Development, Wendy Marlowe said.<\/p>\n<p>Presenters covered topics including the 2022-2023 Severe Weather Outlook, outage restoration, grid investments for reliability and resiliency, new technology to support restoration, communication and partnerships. The event concluded with a drone demonstration showing how technology is used to survey storm damage, locating issues and more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC_0830-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2100\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC_0830-7.jpg 2100w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC_0830-7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC_0830-7-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSC_0830-7-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2100px) 100vw, 2100px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;Duke Energy leaders spoke about the work they do to prepare for and respond to severe weather as well as the improvements they have made to strengthen the power grid,&#8221; Marlowe added. &#8220;In addition, we heard from Nash County Emergency Management about partnerships with all our local, county and state emergency management officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Presentations were held in the Lecture Hall in Nash Community College\u2019s Continuing Education building, with unmanned aerial demonstrations outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N\u200bash Community College hosted a Storm Resiliency and Preparation Event on Wednesday, September 28, 2022 that helped bolster preparedness of utility workers, county leaders, emergency management personnel and community partners&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2022\/09\/ncc-hosts-storm-resiliency-and-preparation-event\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14510,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14487\/revisions\/14510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}