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As 2015 comes to a close, IAEM would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the IAEM Dispatch a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 7.
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Politico
From Aug. 27: On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the southeastern United States, killing more than 1,800 people and causing more than $100 billion in damage. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, then run by Michael Brown, was slow to rescue stranded residents and faced shortages of food and water. The agency was widely believed to have failed in its response to storm.
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USA Today
From Sept. 10: This week is the typical peak of hurricane season, and it's been quiet this year with no big storms on the horizon. Only two hurricanes — Danny and Fred — formed in the Atlantic basin so far this year, and neither came near the U.S. coast, according to the National Hurricane Center. The Atlantic basin includes the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the Atlantic Ocean. Five tropical storms also formed, but only two — Ana and Bill — directly affected the U.S.
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Science Recorder
From Jan. 29: While lethal military drones may get more press, scientists have not let combat corner the market in unmanned flight technology. Regardless of application, one big hurdle in robotics has been combining flight and terrestrial mobility into one drone. However, a major step over this hurdle was described in a report published in the journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics.
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Gizmodo
From Aug. 13: Mass dampers are designed to counteract the swaying of a skyscraper as it's buffeted by strong winds or earthquakes. But it's incredibly rare to see one of these huge devices moving more an a few inches. Unless, of course, there’s a typhoon nearby. As the deadly Typhoon Soudelor swept across Taiwan and eastern China, winds reached upwards of 130 mph, bending mailboxes and lifting 747s off the ground in Taiwan. How did Taipei 101, one of the world's tallest buildings at 1,651 feet, deal with the force of the winds? Like most supertall skyscrapers, 101 has something called a mass damper that's designed to counteract the lateral (sideways) force of winds. And during the worst of the storm, it broke a record for how much it swayed, as Popular Mechanics explains.
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On March 1-3, 2016, a gathering of practitioners and experts from a diversity of sectors will descend upon New Orleans to engage in programming that touches on a wide range of topics associated with resiliency and disaster management. Please consider attending! Additional information can be found at resconnola.com.
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VOX
From May 27: Bill Gates is an optimist. Ask him, and he'll tell you himself. "I'm very optimistic," he says. See? And why shouldn't Bill Gates be an optimist? He's one of the richest men in the world. He basically invented the form of personal computing that dominated for decades. He runs a foundation immersed in the world's worst problems — child mortality, malaria, polio — but he can see them getting better. Hell, he can measure them getting better. Child mortality has fallen by half since 1990. To him, optimism is simply realism. But lately, Gates has been obsessing over a dark question: what's likeliest to kill more than 10 million human beings in the next 20 years?
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Defense One
From Dec. 3: There's no such thing as a simple disaster. Take the 2011 tsunami that swept across eastern Japan. As a wall of water moved toward low-lying towns and villages, people attempted to flee in cars — and drowned in massive traffic jams. The floods decimated infrastructure and roads, hindering rescue and recovery efforts. The water also swamped the backup generators of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, leading to a Chernobyl-level meltdown. Planners might have predicted any one of those things individually, yet no one was prepared for what actually occurred.
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Politico
From May 21: I've spent much of my career helping with disasters, helping people and organizations at some of the worst times of their lives. I was always lucky enough not to need the help of people like me. That ended last week, after I boarded Amtrak Train 188. I'm now even more grateful for our first responders — police, fire, EMTs and hospital emergency rooms. And more convinced that Amtrak itself needs an overhaul. The trip started like every other from Union Station, with a long line of us waiting to have our tickets checked. However, it had a surprise ending: The train, running at 106 mph, more than twice the posted speed limit on that section, went off the rails just after stopping in Philadelphia.
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Stay safe with the Gorman-Redlich CRW-S NOAA Weather Radio receiver, which includes SAME decoding and interfaces with digital signage, emergency lighting, PA systems and more. MORE
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International Business Times
From Nov. 19: The terrorist attacks in Paris Friday night put the Western world on high alert, but it also raised a critical question: Why France again? The U.S. is the highest-profile target for the Islamic State group, and the most frequent target of its threats. So why haven't we seen a full-scale attack anywhere in the U.S. like the one perpetrated on Paris?
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USA Today
From July 30: Are we prepared to protect our children? Eighteen states and the District of Columbia still fall short on at least one basic element of kids' care in Save the Children's state-by-state, child evacuation plans for major disasters. As of 2015, 32 states have met all elements of Save the Children's criteria compared to just four states in 2008. The requirements created by the NGO necessitate the creation of an evacuation/relocation plan for children in child care, a family-child reunification plan, an evacuation plan for children with special needs and a K-12 multiple disaster plan.
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USA Today
From Oct. 8: As floodwaters from the storm that South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and others have termed a 1-in-1,000-year event ravaged the state, several photographers captured what appeared to be mounds of floating fire ants. Amid the devastation caused by flooding, the state's invasive fire ant population found a little-known way to survive.
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