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Mitigation Best Practices Table 21-6. Alternatives to Mitigate the Severe Weather Hazard Personal-Scale Corporate-Scale Government-Scale  Manipulate the hazard:  None  Reduce exposure:  None  Reduce vulnerability:  Insulate house  Provide redundant heat and power  Insulate structure  Plant appropriate trees near home and power lines (“Right tree, right place” National Arbor Day Foundation Program)  Build local capacity:  Trim or remove trees that could affect power lines  Promote 72-hour self- sufficiency  Obtain a NOAA weather radio.  Obtain an emergency generator.  Manipulate the hazard:  None  Reduce exposure:  None  Reduce vulnerability:  Relocate critical facilities (such as power lines) underground  Reinforce critical facilities (such as power lines) to meet performance expectations  Install tree wire  Build local capacity:  Trim or remove trees that could affect power lines  Create redundancy  Equip facilities with a NOAA weather radio  Equip vital facilities with emergency power sources.  Manipulate the hazard:  None  Reduce exposure:  Develop an urban heat island reduction program that includes an urban forest program or plan  Reduce vulnerability:  Harden infrastructure such as locating utilities underground  Trim trees back from power lines  Designate snow routes and strengthen critical road sections and bridges  Build local capacity:  Support programs such as “Tree Watch” that proactively manage problem areas through use of selective removal of hazardous trees, tree replacement, etc.  Establish and enforce building codes that require all roofs to withstand snow loads  Increase communication alternatives  Modify land use and environmental regulations to support vegetation management activities that improve reliability in utility corridors.  Modify landscape and other ordinances to encourage appropriate planting near overhead power, cable, and phone lines  Provide NOAA weather radios to the public  Consider the probable impacts of climate change on the risk associated with the severe weather hazard  Review and update heat response plan in light of climate change (heat events) projections 21-7