The Diva does not recall any prior experience with numbers this high. From NOLA.com, 85 percent of Louisiana’s population in recovery from natural disasters. An excerpt:

Here’s a sobering statistic: 85 percent of Louisiana’s population, in 56 out of 64 parishes, is in recovery of some sort from natural disasters since March. That was part of the data poured out Thursday (Feb. 23) to the state Senate Select Committee on Women and Children.

The Diva may have mentioned some of these resources before, but they are worth repeating.

• Emergency Preparedness Resources for Persons with Disabilities
• Disaster Safety for People with Disabilities: What to Do When Emergency Weather Strikes
• Preparing Makes Sense for People with Disabilities and Special Needs

Thanks to  Patricia Sarmiento of Public Health Corps for the citations.

The recent presidential inauguration was an unusual special event, even though inaugurations happen every 4 years in Washington, D.C.  Among  the more noticeable features were the temporary chain link fences used for crowd control.

I hope to see some additional analysis of the special event planning, but this article provides a start: Lessons on emergency preparedness from the presidential inauguration

I did find a 30-page Guide for Planning Special Events from the DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, dated 2016. I imagine a revision may be coming.

New report from the GAO: FEDERAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE: FEMA’s Progress in Aiding Individuals with Disabilities Could Be Further Enhance

On Feb. 16

From the Washington Post: The government was warned that the Oroville Dam emergency spillway was unsafe. It didn’t listen.

In 2005, three environmental groups warned state and federal officials about what they believed was a problem with the Oroville Dam’s emergency spillway — the same one that was at risk of collapsing this week, after storms caused the adjacent reservoir to swell.

Updates:

From the Guardian, another account of the dam emergency.

And a related story from the NY Times:  What California’s Dam Crisis Says About the Changing Climate

On Feb.15, update from the LA Times.  From Reuters, some of the history and community relations.

On Feb. 16, feds grant CA an emergency declaration for flooding and dam emergency.

On Feb. 21, out-of-date emergency plan and faulty engineering specifications found

We can learn a lot from disasters, and we now know some areas don’t recover

I believe the authors are American; see their earlier paper cited at the end of this article.