There is a website page with a listing of all of the available FEMA Planning Guides.

Addendum: The Diva has heard from one reader whose firm has prepared guidance on preparing for a hurricane. You can view it here: farahandfarah.com/hurricane-prep/

From GovTech.com: Long Beach, CA Mulls Emergency Declaration over Cyber Incident

Thanks to Eric Holdeman for this citation.

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From Reliefweb: Ecological Threat Report 2023

The Institute for Economics & Peace‘s Ecological Threat Report (ETR) is a “comprehensive, data-driven analysis” that covers 99.9% of the global population, analyzing food insecurity, water risk, demographic pressures, and natural disasters for 221 countries and territories. This fourth edition, Ecological Threat Report 2023, is divided into five sections: 1) Results and Trends; 2) Ecological Threats; 3) Conflict, Climate and Ecological Threats; 4) Megacities and Migration, and 5) Policy Recommendations.

This report has identified the highest risk countries regarding resiliency. These countries face major disasters because they are unequipped to prepare for the ecological threats they face. According to the report, many of these countries have maintained instability over the years, including Afghanistan, Mozambique, and Madagascar. This ETR also claims that the growing population is responsible for expanding humanity’s ecological footprint. Mitigation strategies are underfunded and exacerbate existing pressures and political conflict between countries and territories. This ETR hopes to highlight the link between ecological change and peacefulness using a Positive Peace approach.

[Note that access to the actual document is complicated and requires special access..]

From The Hill: Puerto Rico raises alarms as FEMA ends power generation mission

From the GAO: COVID-19 Relief Funds: State Experiences Could Inform Future Federal Relief Funding

From HSNews: Record Number of 25 Billion Dollar Disasters in 2023 So Far.

NOAA confirmed another billion-dollar disaster in October, bringing the total to a record 25 disasters in the first 10 months — the largest number of disasters for any year since NOAA has kept track of these types of events. The Mississippi River’s water level dropped to historic lows along parts of the river.

From The Conversation: How the pandemic permanently altered college towns

From the Conversation: Acapulco was built to withstand earthquakes, but not Hurricane Otis’ destructive winds – how building codes failed this resort city.

From HSToday: FEMA Announces $2 billion in Funding to Boost Climate Resilience Nationwide

From the NY Times, this Opinion Piece: The American Disaster Recovery System is a Disaster.

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