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Hurricane Matthew hit land on Oct. 7, and most Southeast coast properties in its path have reopened for business. However, the five U.S. states affected — Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia — lost about $50 million in rooms revenue because of the storm, according to STR, the lodging research company.
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Forbes
Some people are glued to football at this time of year and some prefer baseball. Others just live on Facebook instead. But this summer a lot of people in Taiwan and its northwestern Pacific Ocean neighbors China, Japan and the Philippines have been obsessing over weather maps to brace for the next typhoon. In September alone Taiwan faced three of the raging wind storms that blow sheets of rain horizontally.
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India Today
Modi Government is hosting the first Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction. It is the first major agreement of the post-2015 development agenda and identifies targets and priority action areas towards reducing disaster risk — reducing the damage caused by natural hazards like earthquakes, floods, droughts and cyclones, through an ethic of prevention.
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South China Morning Post
Two years after the auditor general gave it a failing grade for earthquake preparedness, the British Columbia government is playing catch-up, and satellite phones for senior officials are a key part of its business continuity planning strategy.
Documents obtained through a freedom of information request show that deputy ministers were briefed in June 2015 on British Columbia’s Earthquake Immediate Response Plan and the role of senior officials in the event of a disaster, which can cause telecommunications network congestion and destruction of communications infrastructure.
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Prensa Latina
The second course workshop on approaches and tools for disaster risk management and adaptation to climate change, in terms of sustainable development, concludes today.
"Students from 11 Caribbean countries have asked us to continue these training meetings to reduce the vulnerability of our communities," the general coordinator of the course, Rudy Montero, told Prensa Latina.
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IAEM
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is soliciting public feedback for the National Cyber Incident Response Plan (NCIRP). The current draft NCIRP formalizes cyber incident response practices developed during the past few years and further clarifies organizational roles, responsibilities, and actions to prepare for, respond to, and coordinate the recovery from a cyber incident. The plan also creates a stronger alignment between National Preparedness System, specifically the core capabilities within the National Preparedness Goal, the National Response Framework, and the National Incident Management System. View the draft plan, and use the submission form to provide any comments and recommendations, and email them to FEMA-NCIRP-engagement@fema.dhs.gov by 5:00 p.m. EDT Oct. 31, 2016.
24/7 Wall St.
The U.S. Geological Survey recently published a paper about the chance of an earthquake that would include the Hayward and Rodgers Creek faults simultaneously. Earlier studies suggest the results could cost 6,000 lives and $8 billion in infrastructure and building damage. The effects, depending on the size of the earthquake, could be much worse.
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The Seattle Times
The largest disaster drill ever conducted in the Pacific Northwest found that, despite decades of warnings, the region remains dangerously unprepared to deal with a Cascadia megaquake and tsunami.
During the four-day “Cascadia Rising” exercise in June, 23,000 participants grappled with a hypothetical catastrophe that knocked out power, roads and communications and left communities battered, isolated — and with no hope of quick relief.
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IAEM
The IAEM Editorial Work Group members will meet in November to discuss what topics they would like to recommend to the IAEM-Global Board for the IAEM Bulletin special focus issues that are published four times a year. In special focus issues, feature articles are centered on a selected topic of interest to emergency management professionals. Do you have a great idea for a topic that you would like to read more about in one of those issues? If you would like to recommend a topic, please email your suggestion to Bulletin Editor Karen Thompson by Nov. 15, 2016.
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Malaya Business Insight
SM Prime President Hans Sy has renewed his commitment to incorporate disaster resiliency into business models in accordance with the call of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Sy made the commitment during the UNISDR Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilience Societies meeting in Washington, D.C. held recently.
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Fire Engineering
After a three-year, on-the-ground assessment of a 40,000-acre area of Yosemite National Park’s Illilouette Creek basin, UC Berkeley researchers have concluded that managing wildfires with minimal suppression and almost no preemptive, so-called prescribed burns has created a landscape more resistant to catastrophic fire, with more diverse vegetation and forest structure and increased water storage, mostly in the form of meadows in areas cleared by fires, according to Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley’s Media Relations.
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USA Today
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention delivered a grim assessment Tuesday of the government's ability to contain Zika, saying it's too late to stop the dangerous virus from spreading throughout the United States.
"Zika and other diseases spread by (the Aedes aegypti mosquito) are really not controllable with current technologies," CDC Director Thomas Frieden said. "We will see this become endemic in the hemisphere."
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Harvard School of Public Health
Elderly people who were uprooted from damaged or destroyed homes and who lost touch with their neighbors after the 2011 tsunami in Japan were more likely to experience increased symptoms of dementia than those who were able to stay in their homes, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study was the first to look at dementia as a potential health risk in the aftermath of a disaster.
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The Hill
For those of us who work in cities, it was great to hear New York Sen. Charles Schumer’s announcement that one of his first legislative priorities — should he become Senate majority leader — would be a large infrastructure program. While political outcomes are difficult to predict, there is consensus in both parties that our nation’s infrastructure, particularly in our cities, is in dire need of improvement.
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Florida Today
Along the east coast of Florida, government officials, first responders and residents say their hurricane experiences in 2004 and 2005 better prepared them for Hurricane Matthew.
And many didn’t fault forecasters for predicting a devastating blow to the coast before a last-minute shift kept the most catastrophic weather offshore. Still, areas to the north of Brevard County were hammered by heavier rain, wind and storm surge.
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The Washington Post
A Category 3 or stronger hurricane, defined as a “major” hurricane, has not made landfall on the U.S. coastline in exactly 11 years. By far, this 11-year stretch is the longest period on record without a major hurricane strike.
The last major hurricane to come ashore was Wilma along Florida’s southwest coast on Oct. 24, 2005.
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Recertification candidates are reminded that changes to the training and professional contribution requirements were made in 2015. If recertification candidates started an online recertification application prior to Jan. 5, 2015, please note that the application is tied to the old recertification requirements. To take advantage of the new recertification requirements, candidates should add and complete a new recertification application, which will incorporate the new sliding scale of requirements. Recertification candidates should save any information from the old recertification application and delete the old recertification application prior to beginning the new application. Contact Kate McClimans with questions.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute (EMI) Virtual Tabletop Exercise (VTTX) program will offer a long-term power outage scenario on Nov. 29, Nov. 30, and Dec. 1, 2016, at 12:00-4:00 p.m. EST. The VTTX was designed to help communities specifically look at a long-term power outage in their community. Session content is the same each day, and participants would attend only one session. The design of the VTTX is for a group of 10 or more representatives from state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency communities of practice and is intended to provide an opportunity for responders around the United States to simultaneously participate in a hazard-specific facilitated discussion. To participate, send an email to Doug Kahn or call 301-447-7645. Also, send a courtesy copy email to the Integrated Emergency Management Branch or call 301-447-1381. The application deadline is October 31. Get more information.
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NASEO’s Initiative for Resiliency in Energy through Vehicles (iREV) is a nationwide project that has developed resources that emergency planners can use to integrate alternative fuel vehicles into emergency planning and response activities. At the upcoming iREV Western Workshop, set for Nov. 14, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., at Banning Landing Center, Wilmington, California, practitioners in emergency management, energy assurance, homeland security and transportation will have an opportunity to learn about the value of alternative fuels in emergency response, and discuss opportunities to incorporate alternative fuel vehicles into the planning process. Register online.
Catholic News Service
Heavy damage was reported to homes and farm land in the northern Philippines Oct. 20 after the strongest storm in three years struck overnight.
Typhoon Haima barreled into northern Cagayan and Isabella provinces, ripping the roofs off homes and flattening crops. By late Oct. 21, 13 people had been reported dead, and Haima hit southern China.
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CNN
A preliminary 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Japan on Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake, which was 6.3 kilometers in depth, hit near Kurayoshi city to the west of Osaka, the USGS said.
Almost 80,000 households suffered from initial blackouts, but most power has been restored. A handful of light injuries were reported.
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KAKE-TV
At least 85 people sought medical attention after a chemical spill at a distilling plant that released a noxious cloud in northeast Kansas.
The incident occurred Friday morning at the MGP Ingredients plant in Atchison, 50 miles northwest of Kansas City. The Kansas Department of Emergency Management says the cloud occurred when sulfuric acid and hypochlorite were mistakenly combined.
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Daily Nation
The beach was like paradise. Then Hurricane Matthew turned it into a cemetery of coconut palm trees, with not a house left intact.
Facing such devastation, the residents of Chabet, a town in southwestern Haiti, are stuck between leaving or starting from scratch.
Hilaire Servilius paces around what was, two weeks ago, a beach of fine sand.
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CNN
Seven people from the Cordillera Administrative Region were killed during the onslaught of Super Typhoon Lawin, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Center (NDRRMC) confirmed.
NDRRMC Spokesperson Mina Marasigan said most of the recorded deaths were people killed on their way to evacuation centers.
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The Associated Press via The Washington Post
Typhoon Haima forced the evacuations of more than 50,000 people in southern China after hammering the northern Philippines with ferocious wind and rain, triggering flooding, landslides and power outages and killing at least 13 people.
No deaths were immediately reported Saturday in China from the typhoon. Residents in the cities of Shanwei and Shantou, in China’s Guangdong province, were forced to move to safer ground as the storm hit, local authorities and state media reported.
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