From the NYTimes: Here’s a Way to Make Communities More Resilient to Hurricanes: Listen to the scientists who study them. An excerpt: 

“Listening to scientists saved lives.
Imagine if we applied that kind of expertise and political decision-making to the myriad challenges that living in a hurricane zone brings: where we build, how we make what we’ve built resilient and how we prepare residents for storms of growing strength. Basing policy on the best available science will be even more critical as the climate changes.”

How you handle this Labor Day will help steer the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, doctors say.  Source: CNN

The WordPress editor has changed,
and blog life has been rearranged.
Why do they do this stuff,
enough is enough!,
please don’t leave the authors estranged.

Thanks to a reader for this great limerick. Someone at WordPress needs to pay attention!

From the Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, a list of recommended books published in the past few years,

From Cell: Emerging Pandemic Diseases: How We Got to COVID-19, by David Morens and Anthony Fauci. Direct link to the 19 page report.

The novel coronavirus is the latest sign that the world has “entered a pandemic era,” Anthony S. Fauci and epidemiologist David Morens, both of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warn in a report in the scientific journal Cell. The scientists write that human activity appears to be a major contributing factor in the emergence of diseases, which “should force us to begin to think in earnest and collectively about living in more thoughtful and creative harmony with nature.”

From the Huff Post: States With The Best And Worst Pandemic Safety Nets
A new report from Oxfam America evaluates how well individual states are protecting workers and the unemployed in the coronavirus era.

New from the NAP: Implications of the CA Wildfires for Health, communities and Preparedness.

Call for papers by Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Special Issue on “Cross-Border and Transboundary Resilience”
Use the link in the first paragraph to get the full details.

COVID-19: Brief Update on Initial Federal Response to the Pandemic.. GAO-20-708. August 21, 2020 /GAO-20-708?utm_campaign=usgao_email&utm_content=daybook&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

From the NYTimes: U.S. Flood Strategy Shifts to ‘Unavoidable’ Relocation of Entire Neighborhoods. “Using tax dollars to move whole communities out of flood zones, an idea long dismissed as radical, is swiftly becoming policy, marking a new and more disruptive phase of climate change.”