FLORIDA EMERGENCY INFORMATION
- Build Back Stronger or is it Better to Not Build at All December 14, 2024 12:03 am by Glenn Compton For decades, state and local governments have permitted inappropriate development in hurricane-prone areas, and this continues today. There appears to be little consideration given to the overall problems associated with landfalling …
- How Solar Generators Revolutionize All-Hazards Preparedness December 13, 2024 11:56 pm (BPT) - By Craig Fugate, former Administrator of FEMA and a lifelong advocate for all-hazards preparedness When you've been in emergency management as long as I have — whether it was leading efforts in Florida or running FEMA — you quickly realize one …
- Delegation for 12.13.24: Defense — waterworks — neighborly — estuaries — Myakka December 13, 2024 9:17 pm Defense achievements Two key pieces of spending legislation were delivered from Congress to President Joe Biden’s desk this week, and members of Florida’s delegation touted wins in both. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) covered military …
- FEMA Issues Direct Housing Cumulative Public Notice for Florida December 13, 2024 5:22 pm TALLAHASSEE, Fla.– Public notices have been posted on the FEMA website describing available FEMA assistance and proposed FEMA-funded actions, including activities that may affect historic properties, floodplains and wetlands in Florida for Hurricanes …
- Sharyl Attkisson: Hurricane Helene and the government’s focus on ‘equity’ in emergencies December 13, 2024 5:12 pm One of the federal agencies that could face serious reform under the new Trump administration is the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. When Hurricane Helene struck last fall, the aftermath exposed an agency where a surprising political bias …
- Top FEMA Officials Flew To Ritzy Climate Conference In Middle East Amid Hurricane Controversy December 13, 2024 3:18 pm Multiple FEMA officials attended a ritzy climate conference in the Middle East last month, where they pushed climate activism and complained about white women in leadership, as the agency faced criticism over its response to devastating hurricanes and …
- Hurricane Helene Assistance Triggers Community Connections with ACS December 13, 2024 12:55 pm As people from Florida and southern Georgia in the United States were driving north in late September to escape Hurricane Helene, Joseph Sliker was driving south into the rain already making landfall. Behind the truck he was driving was a three-stall …
- Solutions to Louisiana's complex insurance crisis are in sight. Now comes the hard part. December 12, 2024 4:10 pm Breaking Point Many south Louisiana homeowners are being pushed to a breaking point as insurance rates skyrocket and the intensity of hurricanes rise. Read our series here.On a leafy strip of highway in Houma, a parish planner is on a quest to build …