From the WashPost: New FEMA program would place homeless disaster survivors in apartments instead of trailer parks

See the page titled Personal Preparedness on this website for info re personal, home, and car emergency supplies.

From the CRS, this 37 page report: State and Federal Authority to Mandate
COVID-19 Vaccination

From the Denver Post: Marshall firestorm shows Colorado suburbs now vulnerable as climate warms, “hardening” needed, experts say “We are sitting ducks to the repercussions of the climate that we have to deal with year-round”

From the WashPost: U.S. saw second-most billion-dollar weather disasters on record in 2021. A record warm December fueled a pair of devastating tornado outbreaks, two of the year’s 20 billion-dollar events

From the NAS: Offshore Situation Room; Enhancing Resilience to Offshore Oil Disasters in the Gulf of Mexico: Proceedings of a Workshop (2021)

The pdf version of the book can be downloaded free.

From Mysanantonio.com: Texas receives FEMA aid while Abbott fights government on COVID-19 mandates.

Closing paragraph of the article: “This week, Texas has put on a surprised Pikachu face while calling for help from the federal government over skyrocketing numbers, the residual effect of which San Antonio schools have already begun to feel. Texas is now left shrugging at a growing mess that certainly wasn’t helped by Abbott’s attempts to block every effort to slow the pandemic. We’re lucky FEMA agreed to send help our way/

From Issues in Science and Technology magazine:“Major Reforms Have Been Driven by Crisis,” by Jeremy Farrar, Molly Galvin. Farrar, the director of the Wellcome charitable foundation in the United Kingdom, discusses the state of the COVID-19 pandemic and what society must do to prepare for future global crises.

Since the Diva has family and friends in and near Boulder, CO, she has been trying to offer some sources of help for them about preparing your home for a disaster. See these sites for some useful guidance:

• www.flash.org
• www.disastersafety.org

The Continuity Professionals Pulse website often reprints postings from this blog.  It is aimed at business continuity specialists, but others may find their articles of interest as well.