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New Data on U.S. Floods Reveals More Risk
From the NYTimes: New Data Reveals Hidden Flood Risk Across America
Nearly twice as many properties may be susceptible to flood damage than previously thought, according to a new effort to map the danger.
Across much of the United States, the flood risk is far greater than government estimates show, new calculations suggest, exposing millions of people to a hidden threat — and one that will only grow as climate change worsens.
That new calculation, which takes into account sea-level rise, rainfall and flooding along smaller creeks not mapped federally, estimates that 14.6 million properties are at risk from what experts call a 100-year flood, far more than the 8.7 million properties shown on federal government flood maps. A 100-year flood is one with a 1 percent chance of striking in any given year.
Pandemic Response Does Not Bode Well for a Potential Cyberattack
From the WashPost: America’s pandemic response doesn’t bode well for a potential cyberattack.
America’s botched response to the coronavirus pandemic is a warning that, unless our broken political and administrative systems are fixed, the country could experience a similar breakdown in future national crises, such as a massive cyberattack.
This stark message was contained in a little-noticed white paper recently released by the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission, titled “Cybersecurity Lessons From the Pandemic.” As the paper highlighted, the covid-19 outbreak has been a stress test for our national crisis-management system — and that system has, to a frightening extent, failed. The challenges of a cyberattack would be even greater.
GAO Report on Opportunities to Improve Federal Response and Recovery Efforts Re Covid-19
Covid-19: Opportunities to Improve Federal Response and Recovery Efforts
GAO-20-625: Published: Jun 25, 2020. The Abstract, Highlights and Full report all available on the website.[ Not sure how many pages the full report is.]
The GAO also mentioned this report on its WatchBlog and asked for comments.
Update on June 26: GAO Staffer testimony about the report.
The Diva thought that the GAO was unusually direct and blunt in its criticisms in this report.
How COVID-19 Recovery Is Changing Cities
From the Blloomberg City Lab: How the Coronavirus Recovery Is Changing Cities
As cities emerge from coronavirus lockdowns, the way people use parks, stores, restaurants, transit, streets and homes is changing in ways both subtle and dramatic.
The Diva found this article interesting and thought provoking.
Information re Covid-19
The NYDIS has an excellent collection of guidance re Covid-19.
Keeping Essential Staff Safe and Healthy
From GovTech: Orange County Emergency Chief Balances COVID-19 and Hurricane Threats.Wearing masks isn’t just a message Avery and Orange County are sending the public, but also Orange’s employees as protecting its emergency personnel is one of its top priorities. COVID-19 has already spread among crucial workers who would be working in the event of a storm.
Keeping personnel safe in the event of a disaster is as important as keeping the public safe. COVID-19 didn’t change that, but it provided another hurtle. The Federal Emergency Management Agency published guidelines ahead of hurricane season to assist county leaders with how they can maximize safety standards among its personnel and citizens.
Cape Cod
From Emergency Management: Hurricane Season and Coronavirus a Tricky Combo for the Cape. Cape Cod, Mass., with a high population of tourists and people over 65, is expecting a major hurricane one day. If it occurs this year, the response will have to be well-planned, using new methods to keep everyone safe.
Hawaii- a success story
How Hawaii Became a Rare Covid Success Story. The islands’ geography and small population helped. But so did two enterprising doctors who pushed for aggressive tracing and testing—and sometimes found themselves at odds.
Ways the World Is Better Off Dealing with a Pandemic in 2020 Compared with 1918
From The conversation: 5 ways the world is better off dealing with a pandemic now than in 1918
Near the end of the First World War, a deadly flu raced across the globe. The influenza pandemic became the most severe pandemic in recent history, infecting about one-third of the world’s population between 1918 and 1920 and killing between 50 and 100 million people. It was caused by an H1N1 virus that originated in birds and mutated to infect humans.
Now a century later the world is amidst another global pandemic caused by a zoonotic disease that “jumped” from wildlife to people, a novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2. While we do not want in any way to diminish the hundreds of thousands of personal tragedies caused by this virus, we see reasons to be optimistic. If managed competently, this fight may turn out differently, resulting in lower rates of infection and mortality and, possibly, fewer deaths.
Recovery Diva 