From the WashPost: Phoenix heat, Tropical Storm Cindy show how climate change is a threat to our infrastructure
Climate Change and Its Effects on Infrastructure
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Reports on Alberta, Canada Wildfires
Thanks to Steve Armstrong, I have copies of two lengthy after-action reports on the wildfires and evacuation in Alberta Canada last year. Since they are 176 and 82 pages long, I will not mount them here. Anyone who wants the full reports should contact me and I will send them to you via email.
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Webinar re Disabilities – July 13th
Announcing a new webinar:“ADA National Network Learning Session:
Emergency Planning for Institutional Facilities.” July 13th, 2017
Webinars begin at 2.30pm ET/1.30pm CT/12.30 pm MT/11.30am PT/9.30am Hawaii.
Registration: Free on-line at http://www.adapresentations.org/registration.php
Registration closes at midnight, July 12th, 2017.
Video on State’s Role in Recovery
Half hour video on the role of states in disaster recovery: link is here. This video was released last year by the Coastal Resilience Center. Thanks to Alessandra Jerroleman for the link.
By the way, there is a facebook group called Disaster Recovery Community that may be of interest to readers of this blog.
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Improved Hurricane Decision Support
More capable hurricane decision support platform helps emergency managers
Hurricane Matthew was one of the first operational uses of DHS’s S&T HURREVAC-eXtended (HV-X) platform. The HV-X platform integrates forecast and planning data to provide emergency managers decision support tools for use in advance of and during tropical weather. Development began in 2013 and since then, S&T identified the need for a comprehensive hurricane decision platform that encompassed all phases of planning and evacuations. Collaborating with FEMA, S&T worked to streamline the currently available HURREVAC storm tracking and decision platform. The result of this collaboration is HV-X.
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Recovery in New Jersey Shore
From the NY Times: Not Your Mother’s Jersey Shore. Five years after Hurricane Sandy destroyed communities along the shore, some towns have used the rebuilding process as a time to reinvent themselves.
