A brief commercial: the Diva is the editor of the book Emergency Management; the American Experience. Order now for the fall semester. Details about the table of contents, authors, and special features can be seen on the publisher’s website. [Note: the price of this book from the Disaster Bookstore via Amazon is much cheaper. ]

From Bloomberg News, this article: Historic Eclipse Will Test American’s Power Grip as Solar Waxes and Wanes.

With Increased Destruction, a New Tornado Alley Emerges. Now there is a Dixie Alley in addition to the well-know Tornado Alley in the western U.S.

It’s no mystery why the stretch of America’s heartland from Iowa to Texas became known as Tornado Alley. Every spring, twisters up to two-and-a-half miles wide—wider than Manhattan—churn across flat fields, open roads and, typically, sparsely populated towns, causing hundreds of millions of dollars of property damage each year.

In terms of the number of twisters, Tornado Alley is still dominant. But in recent decades, the bulk of the destruction inflicted by these storms has shifted to the southeast U.S., a swath of states from Louisiana to Georgia meteorologists have dubbed Dixie Alley

Reminder: If you are interested in recovery matters, there is a facebook group called Disaster Recovery Community that you may want to join.

NYU Law launches new center to help state AGs fight environmental rollbacks.

Thanks to Michael Bloomberg, who puts his money where his mouth is, a new legal aid center has been created to deal with environmental rollbacks from the Trump Administration.

Louisiana struggles to track impact of disasters

Exactly how many homes and businesses were impacted by the 2016 flooding?
Surprisingly, it’s a difficult question to answer.
Data collected after any disaster remains spotty and imprecise. But now state officials say they are looking for better ways to track their true impact.
“No one agency is empowered to perfectly capture this data now, but there could be value in collecting this information uniformly after a disaster,” Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson tells Daily Report in a statement in response to a data request

Here is a 12 page guide: Solar Eclipse Planning Resources

Once again, an author expresses concern about the lack of federal preparedness for hurricanes in this administration. See: Donald Trump’s Hurricane Season.