From GovTech.com: Survivors of Hurricane Michael in the Panhandle Fear Fires, Floods. As a long-awaited $19.1 billion disaster relief bill is finally poised to send more federal aid to Florida’s Panhandle, it’s unclear how much help will reach people on the ground, or when it will arrive.

From the Conversation: The economic cost of devastating hurricanes and other extreme weather events is even worse than we thought

Two recent articles have explained this recent, truly tragic phenomenon:

• From HSToday: ISIS Claims Escalating Use of Wildfire Arson as Terror Tactic
• From the WashPost: Mystery crop fires scorch thousands of acres in Syria and Iraq — and ISIS claims responsibility

From the WashPost: How a watchdog whitewashed its oversight of FEMA’s disaster response with ‘feel good’ reports.

Update from Wash Post on 6/7:

The Homeland Security watchdog has agreed to an outside review of its performance following missteps that led it to retract 13 audits of disaster responses that hid problems and instead flattered the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The outside review will be done by another federal inspector general’s office to ensure that Homeland Security’s monitor has improved its overall operations and oversight of FEMA, officials said.

From the Center for Disaster Philanthropy:  CDP 2019 Midwest Disaster Recovery Fund

From GovTech, this article by Lucien Canton: Characteristics of Effective Emergency Managers (Part 1)  Is it possible to define what makes an emergency manager effective? A survey of existing research shows nine common characteristics found in successful emergency managers.

Rebuilding Paradise: Finding health care after wildfire destruction. California town leveled by fire has chance to rethink, not just rebuild.

Why NYC Spent a Year Converting its 500-page Hazard Plan into a Website.

Thanks to Brandon Greenberg for the citation.

Army Corps Under Fire From Flood Victims Amid Storm Surge. The Army Corps of Engineers has been struggling on two fronts — taming America’s rain-swollen rivers, and taming the fallout from mass water releases and breached levees.

Usually we are concerned with the destruction after extreme weather events, but this year there are some front end concerns. From the Wash Post: Extreme weather is pummeling the Midwest, and farmers are in deep trouble

Update: One more article on the extreme flooding in midwest.