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Eat, vote and attend the SDCC Meeting on Monday Dec 17. All invited! Note Early Start of 6:30pm

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Click here for a printable version of the agenda SDCC Agenda DEC 2012

Early start time of 6:30pm to allow for social event

 

Shore Drive Community Coalition

Monday 17 DEC 2012

SDCC General Meeting, Election & Party

PLEASE NOTE DATE and TIME

SDCC General Meeting – Monday, 17 DEC 6:30 – 9:00 pm

Ocean Park Volunteer Rescue Squad Station (Intersection of Shore Drive and East Stratford Rd.)

Call to order

Meeting topic: VOTING and ELECTION of SDCC Officers for 2013

2013 Slate of officers approved at Nov. Meeting:

                                                President – David Williams (Cape Henry Shores)

                                                Vice President – Rick Mercadante (Ocean Park)

                                                Secretary – Todd Solomon (Cape Story)

                                                Treasurer – Ryan King (Chesapeake Beach)

Member’s and Guest’s SOCIAL CELEBRATION of 2012

Officers’ Reports:
President’s Report David Williams
Vice President’s report Grace Moran

Secretary’s Report Todd Solomon –NOV Minutes

Treasurer’s Report Carol Collins

Update on issues:

Old Business

New Business Celebrate /Pollard’s Chicken, meatballs, veggie tray, cheese tray, and dessert tray

Adjourn

Next SDCC- Monday JAN 28, 2012

Ocean Park Volunteer Rescue Squad Center

Speaker- TBA

Please check http://www.sdcc.info for more information on area news and events

Background Information from City Staff regarding the LED Traffic Signs on Shore Drive

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The following is an email from the Deputy City Manager, Dave Hansen, to the Bayfront Advisory Committee (BAC) explaining the LED Traffic signs on Shore Drive and the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) project.  You can also see the 2009 Power Point presentation given by City Staff to City Council regarding this project.  Click here to view the 3Mb file.  ITS Brief 021810

Members of the BAC,

 In November of 2009, DPW Jason Cosby briefed the City Council on the $22M Intelligent Transportation System project in which all but $1.5M was being funded by the Federal Highway Administration.  In this comprehensive briefing he covered the major phases of construction and their specific outcomes.  I have attached that brief and note that on chart #24 we identified the location of 6 sites where the Dynamic Message Boards were to be installed.  Two of those locations were clearly shown on Shore Drive. Following that briefing Mr. Cosby briefed the BAC on 18 February 2010.  I have attached that briefing and ask that you relook charts 21-26.  Additionally I have attached the minutes of that BAC so that you can see who was in attendance when we advised you what the plan was, why it was and what it was to be like.  As Mr. Arnhold made comment regarding City staff in his email below, I note that he was in attendance at the BAC brief on 2-18-10 and that no questions were posed to the staff following the DPW brief.  The lag time between the briefings and the start of construction was the product of contracting, funding, technology, public briefings and increasing the requirement from six to eight locations. Hopefully the board recalls this information briefing in February 2010 and we can proceed to respond to the myriad of questions which are being asked.  To assist you I provide the following description of the ITS project and specific information on the DMS.

 The signs located on Shore Drive are part of The Virginia Beach Dynamic Message Signs and System Detector Project which consists of the installation of 11 motorists advisory Dynamic Message Signs (DMS) at eight locations, overhead sign support structures, equipment cabinets, and communication equipment. The DMS’s have three line displays. This important project was funded by Federal Funds associated with Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality and is intended to provide real time information to the motoring public to keep traffic flowing.  The locations have been strategically selected and approved by City Council in order to maximize the dissemination of essential information to motorists. The DMS’s will be installed at eight locations within the City.

 The DMS’s will be installed at the following locations:

1. Princess Anne Rd and Elson Green Ave, southbound

2. General Booth Blvd at the KOA Campground, northbound

3. Shore Dr and First Landing State Park, westbound

4. Shore Dr and Bayville Rd, back to back DMS’s

5. Northampton Blvd and Bayside Rd, eastbound

6. Northampton Blvd and Shell Rd, westbound

7. Independence Blvd and Wakefield Dr, back to back DMS’s

8. Shore Dr near 83rd St, back to back DMS’s

What follows is a brief summary of the why, what, how, and where:

 1. Purpose:

               -The primary purpose of the signs is to convey traffic condition information to the roadway motorists

                – Signs are especially useful during hurricane evacuation

– Signs can be used to display public safety campaign information (i.e. Amber Alerts, Click-it-or Ticket)

 2. Lighted:

                – signs will not be lighted (no illumination lamps to shine on them); they are LED driven-internally illuminated

                – the sign will be dark unless there is a message to display

 3. Size: 6 feet high by 12 feet long; mounted 17 feet above the ground.  (by comparison our portable signs are 6’ by 10’)

 4. Location: The location on Shore Drive was specifically selected because of the following properties: -38,000 motorists pass this site every day

 -West bound traffic can be alerted to conditions at Northampton Blvd, Chesapeake bay-Bridge Tunnel, and I-264

 -East bound traffic can be alerted to downstream conditions on Shore Drive, Fort Story, Great Neck Road

 The signs are a part of our ITS (intelligent Transportation System) project with the goal being able to disseminate real-time traffic information expeditiously to the motoring public. They can also be used to broadcast Amber Alerts in support of Public Safety.

 Should you require additional information I am happy to respond to your RFIs. Regards, Dave

Dave Hansen

Deputy City Manager

City of Virginia Beach

(757)385-4242

Civic Engagement Opportunities for Transportation and Education

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Transportation: HRTPO Online Survey – Deadline Dec. 31st 

Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization (HRTPO) would like your help in long range planning for our region.  Read their information below and Please take 5 minutes to answer their online survey. 

http://hrtpo.org/

The Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization (HRTPO) is updating the Long-Range Transportation Plan.  Entitled Navigating the Future to 2040, this plan will address future road, transit, passenger rail, freight, bicycle and pedestrian needs for the region. Because these are your needs, and because this plan will directly impact you and shape your quality of life, we want to hear your perspective and opinions on vital transportation issues in the region.  In this way, we can mutually shape a vision for Hampton Roads.  Help us navigate the region’s future!  This short survey should only take about 5 minutes to complete and will be used to help guide transportation in Hampton Roads.  We thank you for assisting us with identifying these issues, and enabling us to direct resources to solving these needs.

Education: Wednesday Dec. 12 at 6:30pm in the Central Library

How should higher education help us create the society we want?   
 
Be a part of the nationwide public policy discussion about the future and role of higher education, Wed., Dec. 12, 6:30 to 8:50 p.m., at Central Library.
 
Library staff will lead a small group discussion using the National Issues Forum Institute guide, “Shaping our Future: How Should Higher Education Help us Create the Society We Want?“
 
The program is free and open to teens and adults. Call 385-0150 to register.

Va Pilot Editorial Regarding LED Traffic Signs on Shore Drive Calls for More Public Involvement

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NO WAY TO RAISE EIGHT ROAD SIGNS – THE ISSUE Virginia Beach erects several LED traffic signs. WHERE WE STAND Given the city’s ban on electronic signs, greater public involvement was required.

             IN JUNE 2010, Virginia Beach’s City Council banned electronic signs in the city, calling them garish, distracting to drivers and dangerous. Rather than impose stringent restrictions on signs in front of churches and businesses, the council said the bright signs, if not already in place, would not be allowed at all.

That vote was in character with the city, which banned new billboards a quarter-century ago and encouraged landscaping and beautification projects in medians and other public spaces.

              City government itself is exempt from the electronic sign ordinance, however. Light-emitting, attention-grabbing signs beckon passersby to Virginia Beach’s convention center and its performing arts center. Outside public schools, libraries and community centers, the signs are colorful reminders of upcoming events.

               Now, according to reporting by The Pilot’s Kathy Adams, the city is erecting eight LED signs to warn drivers about traffic problems on Shore Drive, Princess Anne Road, and Independence, General Booth and Northampton boulevards. Not only are city officials defying the spirit of the ordinance, but they failed to talk to neighborhood groups about the signs’ locations, size and hours of use.

               Traffic engineers determined   the locations. The federal government paid for the $60,500 signs with “congestion-mitigation” money.

              So now, instead of the city partnering with private companies that own the 30 billboards in Virginia Beach to allow limited electronic messages and city use for public safety issues — as some on the City Council had proposed in 2010 — the city has eight more signs towering over roadways.

              Monday-morning quarterbacking does no good unless it serves as a lesson for the future. In the case of LED signs, the city failed a basic tenet of good government: It didn’t involve affected communities in the planning.

              Virginia Beach should have solicited suggestions for designs that don’t run afoul of the aesthetics of the surroundings. It should have asked the public for ideas for traffic alert locations that would actually help drivers with alternative routes.

              And because the city violated rules that bind the rest of us, it should have made the case publicly for why its signs are a safety feature, not a hazard.

Lynnhaven Colony Homeowners Seek Answers to Flooding Woes – Va Pilot Article by Selene Guerrero

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HOMEOWNERS SEEK ANSWERS TO FLOODING WOES

  By Selene D. Guerrero, Correspondent Virginia Pilot 

Residents of Lynnhaven Colony filed into Dockside Restaurant on Nov. 17, but instead of appetites they brought questions for the public works officials in attendance.  The city panel and more than 50 residents gathered to discuss solutions to the neighborhood’s common flooding during high tide and inclement weather.

              “The most important and expensive thing you purchase is your home,” Donna Rennick, civic league vice-president, told Phillip Davenport, public works director, before he took the floor.

              “We need to know how we can work with you,” Rennick said. “We need answers.”

Phillip Roehrs, water resources engineer, presented a project that officials believe would alleviate most of the flooding, but further study is needed to make certain it will do the job.   Lynnhaven Colony is south of Shore Drive, on land that is between the Chesapeake Bay and Long Creek, which is a tributary of the Lynnhaven River.  According to a 2005 study, solving the core problems – feeder ditch improvements, flooding on Shore Drive, relieving flooding in low-lying areas – is estimated to cost $50 million, Roehrs said.   Roehrs added that he was not prepared to provide the residents a timeline of when the project would begin or be completed.

   “We’re at a point where we are thinking of moving,” said Joyce Dunn, a 30-year resident. “After the 2009 nor’easter, the city proposed the same and nothing has been resolved.”

   Dunn’s family has made costly adjustments in their home, such as resurfacing their garage and moving their furnace to the attic.   In about a year, when sidewalk construction on Shore Drive begins, the city plans to start Phase I of the project by putting in the components needed for development of a flood-control system.

   The final plan would provide the community with two tide gates, five water pump stations (adding to the two already in place) and an underground conveyance system.  The current outfalls to the Chesapeake Bay and river would be improved with extra collection systems that would provide a better flow.

   “There are minor tweaks in the works,” Roehrs said. “But it will take a number of years to build and a number of years to finance.”

Currently less than $3 million a year is set aside for the project. City officials are working to come up with a way   to fully finance the project and move forward.

   “Even if we are able to come up with a financing plan where we can have all the money today,” Davenport said, “we can’t do all of the work at one time, it has to be phased.”

Construction around the roads and ditches would make it difficult for residents to get in and out of Lynnhaven Colony, he said.

The city plans to put in place a funding and work schedule, and provide residents with a timeline by December 2013.  In the meantime, city representatives suggested that homeowners have their homes elevated and seek federal funding with the Federal Emergency Management Agency through the Severe Repetitive Loss program.

 “Set an expectation,” resident Vin Melwani told the panel after the presentation.  “I’m a homeowner,” Melwani said. “I just would really appreciate it if you could set a realistic expectation.”

  •            For information about the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Severe Repetitive Loss

program, contact Erin Sutton, city emergency planner, at 385-1076.

  • For proposed plans and maps of the flood-prone areas off Shore Drive east of the Lesner Bridge, visit http://www.tinyurl.com/ akc9nd6

City Continues Engineering Studies for Immediate Stormwater Solutions East of Lesner Bridge – Results Expected April 2013

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The following email was received from Deputy City Manager Dave Hansen in respone to requests that immediate stormwater solutions similar to the one used in Ocean Park be installed in flood prone areas east of the Lesner Bridge in Cape Story, Lynnhaven Colony and Cape Henry neighborhoods.

 

Eastern Shore Drive Leaders,

Let me begin by attesting the Eastern Shore Drive Storm Water Drainage Area Improvement Initiative is one of our top focus areas as we roll into the new year.  The staff and City leadership are very sensitive to the hardships created when we have intense and long-lasting weather events such as Sandy, Irene, and the Nor’easter of Nov 09.  Following Public Works attendance and briefing last Saturday with the Lynnhaven Colony Civic League and concerns we have received from Cape Henry Shores, Cape Story By the Sea and other concerned citizens in the eastern Shore Drive drainage area, our engineering and operations staff will be undertaking an accelerated analysis of several interim solutions which have been suggested and on the face seem to have merit in providing various degrees of protection from tidal inundation.  Below is a summary of the two phases I have asked our engineering staff to pursue.  Phase I is a data map with summary descriptions so we identify all infrastructure, elevations and drainage areas east of the Lesner.  Completing this on 7 Dec allows us to define the study aspects of Phase II.  I have asked Public Works to complete their assessments and recommendations by the first week in April and to publish a written report NLT 12 April.  Intent will be to post this report on-line for the civic leagues and citizens to review. Here are summaries of the first two phases:

1.    Using City topographic mapping as the base, delineate the drainage sub basins, the drainage systems (open and closed), and the outfalls for the Lynnhaven Colony/Cape Henry/Cape Story by the Sea areas.  This will provide a clear graphic that depicts the ground elevations, drainage areas, and drainage system elements – including outfalls.  This will be used as a tool for the additional analyses identified in Phase 2 and will be suitable for discussions with the BAC and civic leagues when describing how the systems function and why engineering analyses are necessary to support any proposed interim measures such as backflow preventers.  I.e., it’s not as simple as just keeping the tide out, the rainfall runoff has to be able to either be safely stored within the particular drainage area or be able to be discharged with the backflow preventers in place (or a combination thereof).  These products will be ready by December 7.

2.    Each sub basin will have an analysis done to determine the suitability of backflow preventers on the outfall for the particular subbasin; if a backflow preventer is suitable, the type of backflow preventer; the amount of rainfall runoff the subbasin can handle without structural flooding; the stand-by pumping requirements (if any); and the probable costs.  While simply jumping to a “solution” as has been suggested by some,  it is absolutely necessary that the City allow the responsible level of engineering to be done to assure that we do not inadvertently worsen the drainage situation for any particular subbasin.  We are estimating four months for this effort. Expect to deliver a written analysis with recommendations and preliminary costs and timeline by mid-April.

Phase III will be the review and approval process leading to design and construction.  Once we firm up the costs and the competitive process we’ll use to get the work done we can provide a reasonable timeline.  I wish to close this email by ensuring our citizens fully understand these interim solutions as with the permanent solutions have definitive limitations.  At some level of tidal surge and some accumulation and intensity of precipitation all infrastructure improvements will be overcome and mother nature will prevail.  Hopefully implementing interim measures will reduce the risk of moderate storm damage and buy the time for us to consider even grander infrastructure solutions to tackle the bigger more threatening hurricanes and nor’easters we seem to be weathering of late.  Happy Thanksgiving and fingers crossed for a quiet winter storm season. Regards, Dave

 

Dave Hansen

Deputy City Manager

City of Virginia Beach

(757)385-4242

Reminder – First Landing State Park Volunteer Orientation – Wed. Dec 5th at 5:30pm

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Hello Volunteers! 

Volunteer orientation will be presented on Wednesday, December 5th from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm at the Trail Center. We will give an overview of First Landing State Park and discuss the volunteer program. If it has been five or more years since you have attended a volunteer orientation, please plan to attend. If you are unable to attend, volunteer orientations are offered quarterly so you can try to catch the next one.

Please e-mail or call me if you plan to attend.

Thank you,
Kim Y. Miller
Volunteer / Events Coordinator
First Landing State Park
Phone: 757-412-2308
Cell: 757-536-0088
Fax: 757-412-2315

“Temporary Bulkhead” at the beloved Lynnhaven Boat Ramp & Beach Facility further explained

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From an email from Dave Hansen posted unedited with permission:

Kal & Grace,

FYI – The “Temporary Bulkhead” as shown in the permit application and on the current design plans, is designed with steel sheeting with a tie-back system and a concrete cap. The length is approx 400 LF.

Timber is great for residential bulkheads, but it is not adequate for a commercial/industrial application like this.

Timber would not hold up for the construction duration. The cap would require cleats to tie-off and a timber cap would not provide an adequate anchor for loaded barges, boats, etc., to tie off.

The concrete cap provides more structural stability for the bulkhead design.

This concrete cap bulkhead design is more of a standard section that contractors are used to building.

As an alternate, a more expensive steel cap could be used, but in either scenario (steel or concrete) the cap needs to be more durable than timber.

As promised in my many briefings to your respective organizations we will visit this discussion just past the 50% construction stage to see how we are co-existing with our boating public. Regards, Dave

Dave Hansen
Deputy City Manager
City of Virginia Beach
(757)385-4242

Permit at US ACOE website.
More about dredging, and the replacement for the Lesner Bridge at SDCC HOT page.

SDCC General Meeting Agenda for Monday NOV26 2012

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Click here for a printable version of the agends – SDCC Agenda NOV 2012

Shore Drive Community Coalition

Monday 26 NOV 2012

SDCC General Meeting

SDCC General Meeting – Monday, 26 November 7:30 – 9:00 pm

Ocean Park Volunteer Rescue Squad Station (Intersection of Shore Drive and East Stratford Rd.)

Call to order

Meeting topic: Nominations for SDCC Officers for 2013 Election

Vice President’s Report on NOV BAC Meeting

Communications Plan for 2013

Officers’ Reports

President’s Report David Williams

Vice President’s report Grace Moran

Secretary’s Report Todd Solomon –Sept Minutes

Treasurer’s Report Carol Collins

Update on issues: Open questions from the floor

Old Business Shore Drive Issues

Storm Water Flooding of Neighborhoods

New Business

Adjourn

Next SDCC- Monday DEC 17, 2012

PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE

Ocean Park Volunteer Rescue Squad Center

Speaker- TBA

Please check http://www.sdcc.info for more information on area news and events

Wednesday, Oct. 31, is Halloween. Trick-or-Treat begins at dusk and ends at 8 p.m. for children 12 years of age and younger. Members of the Virginia Beach Emergency Response System want you and your family to be safe. Planning ahead can help make this Halloween a safe and fun treat.

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Read the news release. (2pg PDF)

If you’re planning to take the kids trick-or-treating, or if you’re passing out candy, follow a few simple rules to keep Halloween safe and fun. If you are passing out treats, please turn your porch light on so children will know they are welcome. If you are not passing out treats, please turn your porch light off. Other safety tips for trick-or-treaters include…

100512-NewsRelease_Halloweenbam.docx

“As of 3:22 p.m. Shore Dr. is now open, however, there is still an area of high water in the westbound lane at the intersection of Starfish Lane.”

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From City of Virginia Beach Facebook page update.

“The rain and strong winds will continue throughout the day as Hurricane Sandy moves north, but the risk of major flooding has subsided for Hampton Roads, according to the National Weather Service.”

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Pilotonline.com:

“The one this morning was the one we had to watch out for,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Jeff Orrock.

The next high tide, at 9:43 p.m., will be about the same “as the highest high tide you’d normally see in a year,” Orrock said.

Visit the new Shore Drive Community Coalition Facebook Page for more photos.

City Manager Update #9 from 9am Monday

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From an email:

To: City Council; Constitutional Officers and Appointed Officials; Department Directors
Cc: Executive Assistants; Media and Communications; Media and Communications
Subject: Nor’easter SANDY Update #9

At today’s 0900 Monday City Manager we are confident our projections remain valid. Our current challenge is the ongoing high tide and its stacking impacts in the Lynnhaven and Elizabeth River Basins. We are also seeing an increase in the number of road overtopping by storm water ponding. Road closures are being updated on our Hurricane Sandy webpage every two hours. Total rainfall amounts so far vary throughout the City from 2.8 inches to as much as 4.9 inches. We are expecting a change in wind direction to occur late this afternoon.

Our most significant issue remains tidal stacking within the Lynnhaven and Elizabeth River basins creating low level residential flooding. Throughout today our Public Safety and Public Works teams are on the ground monitoring the effects of the ongoing high tide. Projected NWS storm surge will result in a high tide +7 feet above MLLW. This confirms our analysis that tide cycle stacking in the Lynnhaven and the Elizabeth River neighborhoods will result in significant tidal flooding up to elevation 6 feet above sea level. Our neighborhood specific inundation maps have indicate areas below 6 feet above sea level so citizens can make their assessments as to impacts of localized tidal flooding. We remain confident the Historical Tidal & Surge Chart is projecting where Sandy’s high tide elevations above Mean Low Water Level will be in relation to our previous storms. This additional information is being posted on our VBgov website. Here is the link.

http://www.vbgov.com/residents/emergency-preparedness/Pages/hurricane-sandy.aspx

Sustained wind projections have stabilized however the attached charts reflect a significant wind direction change and increased window of gusting will occur late afternoon today. Winds will make a dramatic shift from NW to SW and we should be guarded as to the effects this may have on our canopy. As Sandy makes another turn mid afternoon its projected path will actually bring the storm closer to Virginia Beach – hence our concern regarding impacts of the wind direction change. Winds still will not reach hurricane force and we do not believe sustained tropical force winds (39-74mph) will be reached either. We do however anticipate tropical force gusts that may occasionally reach the mid-fifties. The severity of this nor’eastercane is subsiding though the consistency of the winds will continue until after daylight Tuesday morning. Dom Power reported customer outages stands at 1500 of which 1200 are the result of an accident on Northhampton Blvd that toppled a power pol .
Storm surge has been most dramatic. Atlantic wave height throughout the day has been spectacular with some reaching the projected 15 foot level ; Bay wave height is nearing 8 feet with 9 foot waves being experience further into the bay. Beach erosion observations indicate our Atlantic beaches are faring well. On the Bay the Cape Henry, Ocean Park and Baylake Pines beaches are also holding however the Chesapeake Beach which had little buffer continues losing what little dune system it had. Indications are we are experiencing some structural damage and tidal surge flooding. Public Works is documenting these instances.
Rain is our 4th threat. Some areas of the City may receive up to 7 inches. Rain intensity has been steady but moderate. Projections are we could receive an additional +3 inches before the storm is over. Rains will continue through Tuesday mid-day. Surface ponding is occurring as runoff is being hindered due to elevated levels of the Lynnhaven and Elizabeth Rivers. Back Bay and the North Landing are seeing significant low levels based on the northerly winds pushing the water south and out to the Currituck and Albemarle. Storm water crews are responding to ponding issues. The police are providing high water traffic control. Impassable roads being listed on our storm webpage.
The duration of Sandy continues to make this storm a significant event. Weather conditions have stabilized and will remain consistent through this evening. After midnight we can expect to see a very slow lessening of the storms wind/rain consistency into some intermittency all day Tuesday.

Other highlights from this morning’s staff update:

· We have attached todays 0800 SITREP taken from our WEBEOC reporting database. It gives insight into the myriad actions and issues the departments are wrestling with.

· The Birdneck ES shelter remains open today. Currently reporting @53 individuals enjoying a warm, dry, friendly environment.

· The EOC continues operating under a partial activation.

· City services and staffing will operate under essential conditions beginning throughout Monday. Decisions regarding tomorrows City operational status will be made midafternoon today following our next regional and NWS VTC.

· VB Public Schools are closed today and will also determine their operating status sometime later today.

· The next regional VTC and NMS update is scheduled for 1330 this afternoon.

· It was commented this morning that the winds did not cause our foliage to leave its branches and when Sandy is over we are looking forward to the cornucopia of color our vivid canopy will provide us.

Will keep you advised. Dave

Dave Hansen
Deputy City Manager
City of Virginia Beach
EOC contact # 757-385-0705

(Note: there is a 17 page pdf that goes with this. I am unable to upload at this time.)

LESNER BRIDGE CLOSED. SHORE DRIVE FLOODED IN NORMAL SPOT AT MARLIN BAY

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Note: this info is from several different people.

UPDATE: 10:29am Both 385-5000 Public Safety and 385-3111 Information confirm Lesner Bridge is “closed”.
Editors note: I’m viewing traffic traveling both directions on Shore Drive in front of Salty C’s.

High Tides for Lynnhaven Inlet and Storm Info

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Everyone,
I googled Virginia Beach Tide Chart and found a site “Sunny Day Guide” which provides a tide chart for VB. From their basic tide time, you have to add or subtract a correction for your specific area. The correction for Lynnhaven Inlet is Basic+48 minutes. The corrected high tide for today (Oct 29) will be 10:02 am and 10:31 pm. The corrected high tide for tomorrow will be 10:49 am and 11:07 pm. I hope everyone fares well and stays dry. Be careful and please watch for any down power lines. If there are down power lines in the area, don’t touch anything metal (fence, etc) or even wood like tree limbs. If the voltage is high enough, a wet tree limb can transmit enough voltage to kill you (saw it at a Dominion Power public demo). Be careful. Please watch out for your neighbors who may be by themselves.

If you experience any damage from the storm, take pictures to document the damage for insurance purposes before you remove it.If you have a lot of damage, separate the damaged material into three piles; mulchible (tree limbs, branches), building material (drywall, carpeting, rugs, etc; and then if you have “white goods” like refrigerators, freezers, lawnmowers, powered equipment, put that in a separate pile because of the possible hazardous material (oil, gas, freon, etc). Do not put everything in one pile, or the city will let it sit there for some time before it can be sorted out.

Helpful Election Information

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The following handouts may be helpful voters in the November 6th election.  The informaiton has been gathered from neutral sources and should provide details regarding the two Virginia Constitutional Amendments and show the ballot that will be presented on November 6th.

Please read over both documents to help you make choices prior to the actual election.

 VA State Board of Elections Brochure – http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/Files/Cast%20Your%20Ballot/Candidate%20List/201211ConstitutionalAmendmentsBrochure.pdf

Sample Ballot – http://www.vbgov.com/government/departments/voter-registrar/Documents/110612_Sample_Ballot.pdf

Saturday afternoon updates from City Manager presentation including Sandy Flood Surge Risk Area Map for Lynhaven Basin

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From VBGov.com Hurricane Sandy Page

City Manager Powerpoint Saturday Afternoon Presentation (23 page PDF)