Mastodawn

@heidilifeldman This is good to hear, but it won't help that FEMA fired or reassigned all the staff writing on BRIC projects. All the allocated funding has been 'deobligated' and returned to Treasury accounts.

The states still have staff that can manage the grants from the recipient side, but the bureaucracy to implement the program is long gone.

#FEMA #BRIC #DisasterMitigation #Infrastructure #Preparedness

CPIPR May 14, 2023

The U.S. lacks sufficient baseline health information on population in the Gulf of Mexico region to identify, attribute, mitigate, and facilitate prevention of major health effects of disasters such as Hurricane Ida.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33178663

#NICHDImpact #PublicHealth #Hurricane #NaturalDisaster #DisasterMitigation

Framework for a Community Health Observing System for the Gulf of Mexico Region: Preparing for Future Disasters - PubMed

The Gulf of Mexico (GoM) region is prone to disasters, including recurrent oil spills, hurricanes, floods, industrial accidents, harmful algal blooms, and the current COVID-19 pandemic. The GoM and other regions of the U.S. lack sufficient baseline health information to identify, attribute, mitigate …

PubMed

Lauren Feb 4, 2023

Planning and mitigation were all WFH yesterday except for one of my colleagues. She came over and sat with us in Training and Development answered all my map and satellite imaging questions. I turned into the Jesse Pinkman meme.

#Flooding #Meterology #DisasterMitigation #EmergencyManagement