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Because climate change is projected to increase the frequency of severe weather, communities located in regions that have traditionally experienced severe storms need to be particularly well prepared for extreme events. The city of Greensburg, Kansas, and its hospital—Kiowa County Memorial—have been rebuilding for precisel…
The Structural Engineers Association of Alabama is pleased to announce the availability of these important customized training seminars. Recent disasters such as the tornados in Tuscaloosa, and
Joplin; floods throughout the nation; and earthquakes on both coasts, as well as in Haiti, Chile, New Zealand and Japan have displaced hundreds of thousands of p…
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Tim Marshall will be giving the banquet talk on the challenges of distinguishing EF4 and EF5 tornadoes, and comparing the destruction between the April 27 and Joplin tornadoes.
Mitch Randles, the Joplin, Missouri fire chief, will talk about his response to the tornado aftermath while anguishing over the destruction of his fire stat…
This paper proposes a methodology based on a multi-layer Monte Carlo simulation to model a two-stage recovery process for residential buildings: functional downtime due to delay and functional downtime due to repair. The delay portion of the model was modified based on the REDi framework and models the impeding factors that delay repairs such…
This guide highlights key disability concerns to officials and experts responsible for emergency planning in their communities. It seeks to assist them in developing plans that will take into account the needs and insights of people with disabilities before, during, and after emergencies. It also is designed to help emergency managers, planners, and res…
In 1996, the Governor recognized the state’s vulnerability to future severe weather events and declared an annual statewide Severe Weather Awareness Week. Using this campaign as a focal point, the Mitigation and Public Affairs Team (composed of staff from FEMA Region VI and ADEM) created a public education campaign with the goal to protect the lives and…
The purpose of this Tornado Recovery Advisory is to provide background on the tornado hazard in the Southeast. The general population, home owners and renters, policy makers, local officials, builders, and building departments should understand that tornado occurrence in the Southeast is not a rare event. In fact, of the top 20 states in tornado frequen…
Brookings will be launching its annual review of natural disasters for 2011 on Wednesday, March 28. The review draws out some of the particular characteristics of disaster response and recovery which developed countries experienced, such as widespread flooding in Australia, a terrible earthquake in Christchurch, the Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear a…
Jefferson city - Gov. Jay Nixon today announced an investment of $16.5 million in federal National Emergency Grant (NEG) funding to create temporary jobs for workers in 29 Missouri counties affected by tornadoes, floods and severe storms last year. Using these funds, the Missouri Disaster Recovery Jobs Program will create 1,347 additional temporary job…