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The term "Hazard Mitigation" describes any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risks to life and property from natural, human-made, and technological hazards such as flood, earthquake, fire, utility interruption, severe weather, and terrorism. Efforts made to reduce a community's vulnerability to hazards should be compatible with local community goals; mitigation is most effective when it is a part of the larger responsibility of the government, individuals, private businesses, institutions, and non-profit organizations... Hazard mitigation breaks the cycle. When the same kind of disaster occurs in the same place, like flooding along streams and rivers, it can cause repeated damage and require repeated reconstruction. This reconstruction and repair becomes more expensive over time. Hazard mitigation breaks this costly cycle of recurrent damage and reconstruction by taking a long-term view of rebuilding and recovering following disasters. Hazard mitigation builds a..