A Sea Change in 2018 for Emergency Preparedness
“While each year the hurricane season comes to an end on November 30, the lessons…
Emergency Management
Building a Culture of Preparedness is now the National Policy
Building a culture of preparedness in America President Trump released his National Security Strategy on…
Pre-Disaster Mitigation: It’s Time to Change the Culture
“We have to do more pre-disaster mitigation. Pre-disaster mitigation is the key to becoming…
FEMA Administrator Brock Long: Time to hit the reset button on resiliency
FEMA Administrator Brock Long has it right FEMA Administrator Brock Long testified before the House Appropriations…
Resilient and Prepared Communities: Emergency Managers and Citizens Finding Common Ground
We all want resilient and prepared communities This week, I was in touch with a…
Craig Fugate: The 7 Deadly Sins of Emergency Management
Former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate discusses “the 7 Deadly Sins of Emergency Management” in Stockholm,…
Threats to the Electric Grid and the Sense of Congress
Bipartisan agreement about threats to the electric grid There has been little bipartisan agreement in…
GridEx: Is This Exercise Enough to Protect Critical Infrastructures?
GridEx bottom line upfront GridEx is a biennial exercise run by North American Electric Reliability…
What is Civil Defense and why don’t we have it?
Civil defense gradually morphed into emergency management. There are several good documents that give us…
Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Maria were both “best case scenarios”
We have always had hurricanes. We always will. In one very important way, Hurricane Katrina…
The Civil Defense Book – Second Edition Available!!
The second edition of The Civil Defense Book is out and available on Amazon! Updated…
Blackout: What we learn from electric grid failures
What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history…