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Hays County Hazard Mitigation Plan <br />Summary of Changes <br />Severe Thunderstorm/High Winds (2011) was split into two hazards to adopt hazard profile categories <br />used by the Texas Division of Emergency Management’s State Hazard Mitigation Plan for hazards. The <br />two hazards () are: <br />•Lightning <br />•Windstorms <br />In addition, a new profile was added for: <br />•Expansive Soils <br />Modification of name only for: <br />Risk Assessment <br />•Winter Storm, Extreme Cold, Ice Storm- changed to Severe Winter Storms <br />•Wildfire/ Brush Fire- changed to Wildfires <br />•Tropical Storms and Tropical Cyclones- changed to Hurricanes/Tropical Storms <br />•Dam Failure- changed to Dam/Levee Failure <br />•Seismic/Earthquake- changed to Earthquakes <br />•Floods (Riverine and Shallow)- changed to Floods <br />Hazards Omitted from the Plan <br />Coastal Erosion- Coastal erosion is natural hazard profiled within the TDEM State Hazard Mitigation Plan. <br />The closest coastline to jurisdictional boundaries for Hays County is over 120 miles away. The lack of <br />proximity to a coastline results in no risk from this hazard for Hays County and participating jurisdictions; <br />therefore, Hays County did not add Coastal Erosion to their plan. <br />Land Subsidence-Although land subsidence is a naturally occurring hazard also profiled within the TDEM <br />State HMP, there were no reported historical occurrences within the planning area. Due to negligible risk, <br />land subsidence was not profiled as part of this HMP Update. <br />The following sections outline descriptions and extent scales that apply for all participating communities <br />for each hazard profiled within this HMP Update. Hazard profiles utilizing solely county-level <br />data for regional hazards are addressed in this chapter. All others are discussed within the individual <br />jurisdiction annexes. <br />Within this Chapter, reference to Hays County within the HMP Update is meant to address the unincorporated <br />27 <br /> <br />