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NEWS The Battalion I 3.31.15 DISASTER CONTINUED to recover from the wide array of di sasters that could happen in the United States. “They are going to implement a program that is going to draw together engineering models and social science models and hazard models so that a community could better understand if they have a particular exposure to earthquakes — or if they have exposure to wind hazards or hurricanes or fire hazards — they can better understand what their likely impact would be,” Peacock said. The team at Texas A&M has re searchers with 10 years or more of di saster research focused in the Houston- Galveston area. The focus of A&M researchers will be socially based, focusing on how people handle the stressing factors of a disaster along with urban development, HAPPY TOES CONTINUED my birthday in a way to give back.” That year, Dempsey, along with the help of A&M students, collected and donated 21,000 diapers for the Crisis Pregnancy Center in San Antonio. “That was really successful, and ev eryone was really excited about it,” Dempsey said. “When I turned 22, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I want to do something again.’” Last year, she raised $2,200 to do nate to an organization called “Be not Afraid” that specializes in crisis preg nancies. “Now that I am turning 23, my goal is to raise 2,300 pairs of socks to do nate to Haven for Hope, a big homeless shelter here in San Antonio,” Dempsey said. Dempsey said she first came up with the idea after she met with St. Vin cent de Paul while volunteering with Chick-fil-A at the Hope for Haven homeless shelter. Each month, three locations of Chick-fil-A in the San Antonio area go to the shelter to provide meals to the homeless. Jesus Almendarez, manager of the Chick-fil-A on Bandera Road, said the business, along with two other locations, feed more than 400 people each month through a program set up by St. Vincent de Paul. Dempsey said she became much more aware of the chronic homeless problem in her community from these monthly visits through the St. Vincent de Paul Society. , _ said Shannon Van Zandt, director for the Center for Housing and Urban De velopment and researcher in the Haz ard Reduction and Recovery Center. “A lot of the engineers out there are interested primarily in commercial buildings and industrial buildings, but me and my team are really interested in houses, because that’s where the people are,” Van Zandt said. “We need to re member that people are really impacted by the damage to their homes, and we need to ask how long it will take to recover from the effects of that.” One of the goals for the initiative between the researchers is to develop a software system simple and efficient enough for policy-makers to use on a day-to-day basis. The University of Illinois is using its computing expertise to provide a da tabase called the NIST-COR, where models of social, engineering, hazards and economic impact of disasters are logged, Van Zardt said. PROVIDED 'Happy Toes' participants will wear crazy socks Thursday as part of Dempsey's 23rd birthday charity project. “It really opened my eyes to a prob lem we have here,” Dempsey said. “I thought, ‘What can I do to help?”’ She began to research ways to give to the homeless, in collaboration with Laura Dupree, executive director of the San Antonio St. Vincent de Paul Society. “I read online that that is something that rarely gets donated, such as socks,” Dempsey said. “And when they are donated, most of time they are already previously used until they are no longer good.” “We have a lot of data on house hold recovery on Hurricane Ike,” Van Zandt said. “We have a lot of data on changes in the floodplain in Houston, related to climate change and sea-level rise. And so we will be contributing that data.to the [NIST-COR] and dif ferent researchers will be using it to in tegrate it to their different models for the things that they’re doing.” Peacock said researchers are able to plug in data from their localized areas and collectively map out resiliency in communities across the United States. “What we’re hoping is that NIST- COR will itself serve the scientific community and facilitate engineering improvements,” Peacock said. “We model the vulnerabilities of a built-in environment so that those improve ments can be brought into the NIST- COR and then become an environ ment in which we can assess the utility of the new information.” Dupree said socks are always an im portant item for the homeless. “Sometimes they don’t have shoes, or they wear just flip flops and sandals in the winter, and then their feet get cold,” Dupree said. “It keeps their feet warm in the winter and dry, and year- round people need socks.” Dupree said misconceptions often surround homelessness. “I’d say that there is definitely a lack of public knowledge and public aware ness,” Dupree said. “Thank goodness that there are special people like Alex who are there to help.” In addition to her sock drive, Dempsey is also creating an event that includes both A&M students and mem bers of the San Antonio community — Crazy Sock Day — on Thursday. “The idea behind that is that hope fully people will take notice, and go,' ‘Well what’s that about?”’ Dempsey said. “I think it can be another way to talk about this problem that we have and get people to be talking about it. ” Dupree said the work Dempsey was doing helped to raise awareness, all while serving the members of the San Antonio community, “She’s definitely killing two birds with one stone addressing a need that the homeless have,” Dupree said. “They do need socks, and they do need to keep their feet warm and dry. 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