From Homeland Security News Wire: Survivors of Weather-Related Disasters May Suffer Accelerated Aging

From Inside Climate News: One Year Later: The Texas Freeze Revealed a Fragile Energy System and Inspired Lasting Misinformation.  Power outages in February 2021 were largely a failure of the natural gas system, a reality that state officials don’t acknowledge, blaming wind energy instead.

HUD prioritizes environment, economic equity in disaster relief grants

From the WashPost: Researchers are asking why some countries were better prepared for covid.  One surprising answer: Trust.

From Scientific American: FEMA to Start Tracking Race of Disaster-Aid Applicants. The agency wants to examine if aid is distributed inequitably.

Government watchdog says HHS is at ‘high risk’ of botching a future crisis
GAO criticizes the response to emergencies over four administrations, including coronavirus, Ebola and Zika, as well as extreme weather events

From the WashPost: How the East Coast’s busiest highway unraveled: 36 hours of confusion and misery on I-95. Miscommunications and holes in Virginia’s response added to the confusion as motorists were stranded overnight

From the WashPost: The Marshall Fire leveled an entire Colorado neighborhood. Residents wonder whether to rebuild.

NOTE: The Diva noticed that most of the article is devoted to rebuilding issues, but does not give significant coverage to the relative lack of emergency alerting and questions about the emergency response.

From the NYTimes: With Nightmares and Tears, a Kentucky Town Feels the Long Reach of a Tornado’s Trauma .The physical toll on Mayfield, Ky., is evident. The psychological anguish will be equally difficult to overcome.

The recent GAO report: FEMA Workforce: Long-Standing and New Challenges Could Affect Mission Success

From Gov Executive: FEMA Experiences ‘Mass Exit’ of Employees Amid Surge in Disasters. The agency is still dealing with 1,000 disasters as its workload continues to climb.

From HS Security Today: GAO Questions Whether FEMA Could Cope With a Catastrophic Natural Disaster