According to an e-mail sent this afternoon by interim Town Administrator David Dolce, a meeting to review Portsmouth's response to Hurricane Irene "is already being planned."

Dolce's e-mail was in response to a note sent to the Town Council by resident Doug Smith — which cc'd hard deadlines — asking for a "lessons learned" session and the opportunity for public input. "Now is the ideal time to do a post-mortem of the town's response to the storm and to get us better prepared for the next one," Smith said in his e-mail.

I'll post details as they develop.

Full disclosure: I live in the Island Park section of Portsmouth and was the subject of a mandatory evacuation order that I learned about on Facebook.