This is a story of modern living, an evolution of what we collectively consider a necessity, and what we might do as individuals.

I have to say I’ve become a fan of AccuWeather’s predictions for severe weather and the expected impacts of storms.

Ernesto is focused on the Caribbean and if the estimated track for the storm remains as projected, it will remain well east of the Eastern Seaboard.

It is not beyond the imagination that someone who can’t buy a gun, can purchase a car, and use it as a deadly weapon to mow down people in its path. This has happened time and again with deadly consequences.

Rome was not built in a day and it will take many years of planning and building to overcome our expected future damages. Leave it to say, we did not start soon enough!

Especially troubling to me is the statement that aid to those most impacted by disasters (low income) will not see what the bill and bonding measure first proposed

A harbinger of things to come is that last item above, “artificial intelligence models capable of summarizing news.” Yes, AI is coming for all us us! It can write a disaster plan!

Sometimes I hate being right, but…I was right on this one.

Tropical Storm Debby is certainly going to be a “downer” for the East Coast in the coming days. It is currently projected to drench most of the seaboard with rain, lots of rain. It is a slow-moving storm with the opportunity to soak many low lying areas. As predicted days ago, it is the type of “hurricane” that is fed by warmer ocean temperatures that allows for much higher precipitation as it moves overland.

The latest Disaster Zone Podcast: Post Earthquake: Managing the Situation in Christchurch NZ is posted and has some terrific lessons learned on all the policy and operational concerns to be addressed in a post earthquake environment.

A very dangerous tropical storm is approaching. One that could drop copious amounts of rain and significant storm surge on ocean beaches. The State of Florida is in the bullseye.

It is to be expected that with every event, be it real or an exercise, communications between the players seems to always be the issue.

By now most people following technical issues in the internet and cybersecurity have followed the impacts of the CrowdStrike SNAFU.

There is plenty of room for improvement when it comes to building codes.

Recent events in France and the United States highlight the vulnerability of our nation’s critical infrastructure systems. While much attention has been directed, appropriately so, to cybersecurity of the electrical grid, there are other physical threats to a multitude of infrastructure systems.

As we know, even the President of the United States is not immune from contracting COVID. We have heard in the popular press about the increase of cases occurring—even during the summer.

Power companies are looking at different solutions to reduce their wildfire vulnerabilities associate with being blamed for fire ignition. In Hawaii, there is this, Cameras With AI Shoot for Early Fire Detection in Hawaii.

There is a new Disaster Zone Podcast: Business Continuity Vs. Emergency Management.