From the WashPost: The 5 Hurricane categories explained: What Does Each Look Like?

FEMA Urges Gulf Coast Residents and Visitors to Prepare Now Ahead of Potential Major Storm

From VermontPublic: FEMA’s plodding bureaucracy exacts financial toll on Vermont towns

“The purse was dry, Smith said, because Lyndon still hadn’t received any money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the floods that devastated this Northeast Kingdom town last year.“

New Book Coming: U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century; From Disaster to Catastrophe/ 2nd edition. Due out in 2025.

From HSN: Where Landslides Are Most Likely to Occur in the U.S.

Landslides are a common hazard in the US. In fact, nearly 44% of the country could experience one, potentially catastrophically. Our new national landslide susceptibility map shows where they’re most likely to happen.

From the National Academy of Sciences: Community-Driven Relocation: Recommendations for the U.S. Gulf Coast Region and Beyond.[Free download from their website.]

From the WashPost: More hurricanes are lingering for days. These places are most vulnerable.

New research found hurricanes are stalling more often along vulnerable coastlines, increasing the danger from prolonged rainfall and winds.

From FEMA: a series of sessions on Protecting House of Worship

From Grist: Biden’s FEMA director tried to fix the agency. Did she succeed?
In an exclusive interview, Biden FEMA chief Deanne Criswell discusses her attempts to create a “very different” disaster agency.

From the WashPost: Why landslides are suddenly tearing homes apart in Southern California. Landslides have damaged or destroyed homes atop Palos Verdes’s picturesque bluffs, and threaten hundreds of them.