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Wed, 2012-10-03 18:01 — mdmcdonald
The mission of this working group is to focus on discussions about emergency management.

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Heat Waves Could Be Predicted Weeks in Advance, Study Finds

Sun, 2014-03-09 23:30 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

A pedestrian walks along Vanowen Street in Canoga Park during a heat wave. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

latimes.com - by Tony Barboza - October 28, 2013

Scientists have discovered a weather pattern that foreshadows heat waves and could be used to predict them more than two weeks in advance, well beyond the 10-day range of weather forecasts, a new study reports.

Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research wondered if the prolonged and often deadly heat waves that hit the United States and other Northern Hemisphere countries during the summer could be triggered by large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns.

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CLICK HERE - STUDY - Probability of US heat waves affected by a subseasonal planetary wave pattern

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United States
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Emergency Management
Extreme Weather
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report

New Government Report Warns of Cascading System Failures Caused By Climate Change

Fri, 2014-03-07 18:58 — Kathy Gilbeaux

         

submitted by Margery Schab

(PLEASE SEE LINKS TO REPORTS WITHIN THIS POST)

huffingtonpost.com - by Kate Sheppard - March 6, 2014

WASHINGTON -- From roads and bridges to power plants and gas pipelines, American infrastructure is vulnerable to the effects of climate change, according to a pair of government reports released Thursday.

The reports are technical documents supporting the National Climate Assessment, a major review compiled by 13 government agencies that the U.S. Global Change Research Program is expected to release in April. Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory put together the reports, which warn that climate-fueled storms, flooding and droughts could cause "cascading system failures" unless there are changes made to minimize those effects.

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United States
General Topic Tags: 
Climate
Emergency Management
Energy
Infrastructure
Vulnerability
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem
Situation Report

What Everybody From The North Needs To Understand About The Traffic Disaster In Atlanta

Wed, 2014-01-29 14:18 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

businessinsider.com - by Conor Sen - January 29, 2014

. . . “How can 2 inches of snow shut down Atlanta?” . . .

The issue is that you have three layers of government — city, county, state — and none of them really trust the other. And why should they?

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United States
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Climate
Emergency Management
Transportation
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Problem

City Council Approves Pre-Disaster Agreements

Tue, 2014-01-28 22:34 — Kathy Gilbeaux

orangeleader.com - by Erik Onstott - May 8, 2007 - Orange, Texas

. . . Disaster agreements were among the items discussed at Tuesday’s meeting of the Orange City Council.

Discussed and approved was a motion to extend pre-disaster agreements the city had entered into with Grubbs Emergency Services, LLC, Garner Environmental Services and Old Orange Cafe and Catering Company. Grubbs Emergency Services helped to open the roads after Hurricane Rita, while Garner provided temporary housing, generators and food stocks and the Old Orange Cafe provided boxed lunches for workers.

“This is one of the lessons we learned from Hurricane Rita,” Mayor Brown Claybar said. . .

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United States
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Emergency Management
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Solutions

Funding Problems Threaten US Disaster Preparedness

Thu, 2014-01-09 15:55 — Kathy Gilbeaux

eurekalert.org

A study by researchers at the George Washington University, the University of Southern California, and the Cabarrus Health Alliance lists seven recommendations to enhance preparedness for public health emergencies in the US

WASHINGTON (Jan. 9, 2013) –The Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York City prompted large increases in government funding to help communities respond and recover after man-made and natural disasters. But, this funding has fallen considerably since the economic crisis in 2008. Furthermore, disaster funding distribution is deeply inefficient: huge cash infusions are disbursed right after a disaster, only to fall abruptly after interest wanes. These issues have exposed significant problems with our nation's preparedness for public health emergencies.

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CLICK HERE - STUDY - Funding problems threaten US disaster preparedness (28 page .PDF report)

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United States
General Topic Tags: 
Economics
Emergency Management
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Problem
Situation Report

Historic Freeze - Polar Vortex Could Break Temperature Records

Sat, 2014-01-04 11:08 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Greg Mauch uses a shovel to clear several inches of snow from her sidewalk in Detroit, Jan. 2, 2014.
Joshua Lott/Reuters

abcnews.com - Associated Press - by Carson Walker - January 4, 2014

It has been decades since parts of the Midwest experienced a deep freeze like the one expected to arrive Sunday, with potential record-low temperatures heightening fears of frostbite and hypothermia even in a region where residents are accustomed to bundling up.

This "polar vortex," as one meteorologist calls it, is caused by a counterclockwise-rotating pool of cold, dense air. The frigid air, piled up at the North Pole, will be pushed down to the U.S., funneling it as far south as the Gulf Coast.

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United States
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Emergency Management
Extreme Weather
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Problem

Cheap Mobile Technology is Vital in Disaster Recovery

Sat, 2013-12-21 18:54 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Mike Kraft

      

Jason Hall of Stansell Electric, left, talks with project manager Daron Whitehead as Nashville Wire and other vendors help repair the electrical systems after floodwaters inundated the company in May 2010, destroying $1.2 million in inventory alone./ Dipti Vaidya / File / The Tennessean

tennessean.com - by J. J. Rosen - December 8, 2013

In May 2010, after 36 hours of continuous rain, Nashville was in serious trouble. The “Flood of 2010,” as it came to be known, created a disaster that affected almost everyone in the city. . .

. . . In 2010, the idea of servers and applications being remotely hosted in the cloud was relatively new, and mobile technology was not as prevalent as it is today. Combining mobile and cloud, small- and medium-size businesses can now afford to design and implement disaster-recovery and business-continuity plans that have the same features as their larger competitors.

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United States
General Topic Tags: 
Communication
Disaster Response
Emergency Management
Technology
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Solutions
Problem

Fed Flood Maps Left NY Unprepared for Sandy — and FEMA Knew It

Mon, 2013-12-09 18:31 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Flooding in Red Hook, Brooklyn after Sandy (Flickr/gunnicool)

The agency ignored state and city officials' appeals to update the maps with better data until it was too late.

wnyc.org - December 6, 2013
by Al Shaw : ProPublica / Theodoric Meyer : ProPublica / Christie Thompson : ProPublica

When Patrice and Philip Morgan bought a house near the ocean in Brooklyn, they were not particularly worried about the threat of flooding.

Federal maps showed their home was outside the area at a high risk of flood damage. . .

. . . But the maps drawn up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency were wrong. And government officials knew it.

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United States
US - NorthEast
General Topic Tags: 
Emergency Management
Flood
Map
Visualization
Vulnerability
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Problem

Resources on Disaster Preparedness and Resilience

Tue, 2013-11-05 18:32 — Gina Angiola

Published 4 November 2013 http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20131104-resources-on-disaster-preparedness-resilience?page=0,0

One year after Superstorm Sandy hit the eastern United States, local, state, and federal agencies as well as community groups and businesses are working to strengthen the U.S.s resilience to future disasters. A National Research Council (NRC) release notes that the NRC has issues a series of studies and reports, and has put together workshops and study groups, which should advance the national conversation on preparedness and resilience.

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United States
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Communication
Cooperation
Disaster Response
Vulnerability
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Other

Let It Burn: Changing Firefighting Techniques for a Warming World

Mon, 2013-10-07 23:43 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

The devastating Rim Fire threatened Yosemite in August.  Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

This year has been a bloody one for firefighters on the front lines against wildfires. With climate change intensifying fires, it may be time to change the way we fight them.

time.com - by Bryan Walsh - October 4, 2013

We usually measure wildfires in acres burnt or the number of homes destroyed. But there’s a human toll to fires as well. So far this year 32 people have lost their lives fighting fires, the highest number in nearly 20 years—and the fire season isn’t done yet. More than half of those deaths occurred in a single incident, when all but one of a 20-man firefighting crew were killed during the Yarnell Hill fire in Arizona in June.

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United States
General Topic Tags: 
Climate
Disaster Risk Reduction
Policy
Vulnerability
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