Surviving the Storm Is Just the Beginning. This is the case with most American disasters. Recovery is an uphill battle that takes years and sometimes decades.
Be sure to see the reply posted by Prof. Rob Olshansky, a noted recovery researcher.
New CRS Report (31pp): FEMA Hazard Mitigation: A First Step
Towards Climate Adaptation
State Pandemic Scorecard. For the past year, POLITICO’s Recovery Lab project has been chronicling how the pandemic is playing out around the country with a special eye to the innovations and policies enacted by officials at the state and local levels. We’ve noticed differences in how the pandemic has affected states, but it’s been hard to figure out just how large, and how meaningful, those differences have been. Some of the differences were the result of inherent factors, like the makeup of a state’s economy, including how dependent
it is on tourism. But some differences were also the result of decisions made by public officials.
More than 18 months into the pandemic, the impacts of those decisions are showing up in data that can be tracked and evaluated. This scorecard pulls that data together in an accessible format that readers can use to see how policy trade-offs have played out so far in each state, and help inform state responses going forward.
So far the worst tornado on record happened in 1925. See: Deadliest tornado in U.S. history hit the Midwest nearly a century ago
As the Diva watched TV accounts of the latest rash of tornadoes in TN and KY, she noticed that most of the coverage failed to discuss the power of the storms as measured by the Enhanced Fujita scale. According to the Wash Post article, the National Weather Service will be making a determination of the number on that scale of 5.
Here is an explanation of the EF scale for measuring tornadoes.
Community-Based Solutions to Enhance Disaster Resilience.
The NSF announced a $15.9 million in awards to teams to conduct and evaluate ready-to-implement pilot projects that address community-identified challenges. A significant portion of the funds was awarded to projects focusing on resilience to natural disasters in the context of equipping communities for greater preparedness to and response after disasters such as floods, hurricanes and wildfires.
FEMA’s new Strategic Plan (2022-2026)
New FEMA plan puts climate crisis front and center after Trump admin. erased it.
Another new report from FEMA: Resources for Climate Resilience
Nursing home deaths rose 25 percent after Hurricane Irma, study finds
In an article in JAMA Health Forum, a national team of researchers associates power outages in nursing homes with a 25 percent increase in deaths
Recovery Diva 