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With 2017 coming to a close, IAEM hopes its members, partners and other industry professionals are enjoying a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we are providing the readers of the IAEM Dispatch a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 11.
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Route Fifty
From March 30: While President Donald Trump’s administration has been dealing with plenty of its own various political crises since his inauguration, the White House has not yet had to deal with a major real-life emergency management situation. While there have been tornadoes and flooding situations, the level of the response challenges don’t necessarily stack up to what will be required for, say, a repeat of the magnitude 7.3 Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake in 1886, or a major hurricane slamming into Houston.
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Rappler
From May 4: In light of the recent earthquakes around the country and considering how the weather has become more and more unpredictable, keeping yourself informed is of paramount importance. In this day and age, you’d be hard pressed to find an excuse to not be in the know, what with the boom of social media and the “there’s an app for that” mentality.
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VICE News
From Jan. 12: “Fugate, don’t f#$% this up,” President Obama said. It was days before the 2012 presidential election, and all eyes were on FEMA Director Craig Fugate as the biggest storm since Hurricane Katrina beared down on the biggest metropolitan area in the United States, New York City. Obama no doubt knew that FEMA’s response to Hurricane Sandy could be the difference between a second term and a President Romney, in addition to showing whether Fugate had managed to successfully rebuild an agency low on morale and high on dysfunction following the catastrophic response to Katrina in 2005.
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CNN
From March 23: More than $3 billion for 9/11 recovery efforts. More than $15 billion to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy. Nearly $20 billion to help victims of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma. They're huge sums of money — all approved by Congress, then handed down to states and cities, which use the cash under strict federal rules.
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Irin News
From April 13: How do you relocate a population bigger than Russia and Germany combined? Look to China over the next decade as it plans to resettle 250 million people in a bid to fight poverty, prioritizing the first relocations for those living in areas prone to natural disasters.
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Route Fifty
From March 23: State and local officials visiting Capitol Hill on Thursday were already grappling with the fallout from President Donald Trump’s proposed “skinny budget,” which would cut Federal Emergency Management Agency program grants by $667 million. The document also floats a new 25 percent non-federal cost match from other stakeholders for FEMA preparedness grant awards, similar to disaster recovery grants.
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Tampa Bay Times
From Jan. 5: As Hurricane Matthew brushed along the East Coast last fall, it left a trail of destruction across the mid-Atlantic. The storm left dozens dead and billions of dollars in damage in its wake. In North Carolina alone, record rainfall caused flooding so severe that experts categorized it as a "1,000-year event." A disaster of such magnitude — statistically — should only occur once in multiple lifetimes.
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Emergency Management
From Feb. 9: Resilience is a word that has been tossed around a lot in recent years. It is the newest term to enter the emergency management lexicon and you find it across the spectrum of thinking about personal resilience, organizational resilience and spiritual resilience. All of the above have this sense of being able to avoid a crushing blow, and being able to weather the storms of life or business.
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Temblor
From March 9: In a manuscript accepted for publication yesterday, new evidence for 10 ground-rupturing earthquakes prior to 1857, along the Big Bend of the Southern San Andreas Fault was presented. The study, headed by Dr. Katherine Scharer at the USGS in Pasadena, examined the earthquake history of the San Andreas near Frazier Mountain in northeast Kern County.
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Cleveland.com
From Jan. 19: A zombie apocalypse is unlikely, but the living dead are being studied in relation to "real-world" infectious diseases. One proponent is Tara Smith, a microbiologist and infectious disease epidemiologist at Kent State University, who has gained notoriety around the world for embracing zombies as a way to explain infections. A zombie is an undead reanimated biological entity, which either dies and comes back to life or has a virus that causes a rage and need to bite people, she said.
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