FEMA Mobile App [free] [USA]
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https://www.ready.gov/ <-- shared Ready-iness FEMA web site
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“Download the newly updated FEMA App to get preparedness strategies and real-time weather and emergency alerts…”
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“Launched in February 2003, Ready is a National public service campaign designed to educate and empower the American people to prepare for, respond to and mitigate emergencies and disasters...
Ready… ask individuals to do four key things:
• Stay informed about the different types of emergencies that could occur and their appropriate responses
• Make a family emergency plan.
• Build an emergency supply kit.
• Get involved in your community by taking action to prepare for emergencies…”
#risk #hazard #geohazard #flood #fire #winter #extremeweather #fedscience #fedservice #publicgood #publicservive #taxpayer #safety # #preparedness #emergencies #disasters #app #phone #hazardreadiness #readiness #free #FEMA
@FEMA
#Preparedness
NATO’s latest cyber exercise is a useful reminder that cyber defense is rarely dramatic and never tidy. Fifteen hundred defenders from across the alliance spent days responding to simulated attacks designed to be confusing, imperfect, and inconvenient. In other words, realistic.
What’s notable is what the exercise is not about. There’s no emphasis on secret weapons or breakthrough technology. The hard part is coordination: sharing information across borders, making decisions with incomplete data, and responding before certainty arrives. That’s where most real incidents succeed or fail.
The drills don’t trigger Article 5, and that’s intentional. This isn’t about retaliation. It’s about discovering friction while the consequences are still fictional. The goal is to surface weak handoffs, unclear authority, and quiet assumptions that only become obvious under pressure.
The takeaway is refreshingly unromantic. Cyber resilience isn’t built by brilliance alone. It’s built by practicing confusion together beforehand.
TL;DR
🧠 NATO rehearses real-world cyber chaos
⚡ Coordination matters more than clever tools
🎓 Exercises reveal human and process gaps
🔍 Preparedness beats improvisation
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/10/nato_cyber_training/
#Cybersecurity #NATO #CyberDefense #RiskManagement #Leadership #Preparedness #security #privacy #cloud #infosec
"The project broke ground in October 2024. Within six months, the Trump administration had canceled the grant program, known as Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, or BRIC, calling it 'yet another example of a wasteful and ineffective FEMA program … more concerned with political agendas than helping Americans affected by natural disasters.'"
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/tsunami-shelter-oregon-hospital-fema-funding-cut-lawsuit/
#healthcare #environment #disasters #preparedness #FEMA #DHS #grants #funding #DOGE #USpol #courts
Most of the coursework I've done has focused on #disasterresponse and a little bit on #planning, #preparedness & #mitigation. This week, I got a little bit of a deeper dive into #disasterrecovery thanks to the room I shared with South Carolina Emergency Management Division state as well as county and local officials who brought their post-Hurricane Helene experience with them.
I just downloaded the Taiwan Government Guide: Civil Defense Handbook 2025 (English) - I'm building up a small collection for the gopher server. I'm UK-based. It amazes me that every PDF I've downloaded so far is in English, but when I look for our own UK Government version, I read "*While the UK does not have a physical guide for citizens at a time of emergency or war, there are plenty of resources online... Unlike some other countries, it avoids advice on conflict but there have been calls for the UK to be more like Sweden and be prepared for war*". It just sucks, really.
Thinking Ten Steps Ahead in a World That Keeps Getting Worse
There was a time when thinking a few steps ahead was considered cautious, maybe even a little anxious. You planned for tomorrow, maybe next week, possibly next year if you were especially organized or ambitious. Now, that mindset feels almost quaint. These days, it feels like you have to think ten steps ahead just to survive emotionally, financially, socially, and sometimes physically. Not because you want to be paranoid, but because the world has repeatedly proven that if you don’t […]
This resource was born from solidarity and an urgent need to prepare. In anticipation of increased ICE activity in New Orleans.
The guide is organized into key sectors: schools, workplaces.
#Preparedness
#Solidarity
#ICEWatch
Sector Specific Toolkits/Best ...
🫱🏾🫲🏽We're delighted to meet with Commissioner @roxanaminzatu.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy. Well-staffed & properly equipped workforce in civil protection, water and healthcare services is essential for a safe and resilient Europe. Strong public services are key for EU #Preparedness Strategy.
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything" - Dwight D. Eisenhower
#Leadership #StrategicThinking #EisenhowerQuote #MilitaryLeadership #DecisionMaking #Preparedness #MindsetMatters #QuoteOfTheDay #HistoryInsights
@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
Working on planning a state level exercise which involves a volcano eruption scenario. The exercise team asked if I thought it was a good idea, I said yes, especially the chance of lahard (typo) and debris flows. The working title shared with me this week: Lahar'd Times 😆
Not my first choice but lolol
#ics #DisasterResponse #DisasterRecovery #exercise #preparedness
Interview Alert ‼️
Last week, I had the pleasure of talking with Amanda Coleman about children’s #risk #perceptions & #disaster #preparedness. 🦺🥽⛑️
Based on my recent #publication. I outlined the need to include #children in #learning activities about disasters.
In an increasingly #dangerous world, we must prepare for worst case scenarios!
1 in 8 children are impacted by #NaturalHazards every year (Save the Children; ReliefWeb). Let that sink in. 😡
@un here I come! 🌍
I’m so happy to share that my hard work has led to my #research being published by @UNDRR in their @PreventionWeb blog ☺️
My message is simple. #Children must play a part in #disaster #preparedness 👈👈
In the #UK, we must act NOW!!!
Check it out here: https://www.preventionweb.net/drr-community-voices/children-should-help-shape-disaster-preparedness
Still clinging to that landline? This article says it might be your only connection when mobile networks inevitably decide to take a nap. Are we *too* reliant on wireless? What's your emergency comms backup plan?
#Landline #TechNews #MobileNetworks #Preparedness #Connectivity
Read more: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/you-may-still-need-your-landline-in-2025-heres-why/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Bão số 15 đang tiến vào Biển Đông, Bộ Xây dựng yêu cầu các địa phương chủ động ứng phó để giảm thiểu thiệt hại. Mọi người hãy cập nhật thông tin và chuẩn bị sẵn sàng!
#bão #thiêntai #ứngphó #baoso15 #storm #disaster #preparedness
https://vtcnews.vn/bao-so-15-kho-luong-bo-xay-dung-yeu-cau-ung-pho-som-ar989874.html
https://medium.com/speculative-encounters/community-lessons-for-preparedness-b78ff5ca18a3
Community Lessons for Preparedness.
Situational Awareness Training.
Two West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, in downtown Washington, D.C., near the White House.
https://medium.com/speculative-encounters/build-a-community-survival-network-1de89f1bfeca
Organize Neighbors into a Reliable Support Group.
Assign roles, share resources, and strengthen local resilience.
#survival #survivaltips #medium #community #networking #planning #EmergencyPreparedness #Preparedness
People say "ah, but they couldn't've known; a pandemic was unprecedented", but:
BMJ, 2021: "A list released by Public Health England shows for the first time that 11 #pandemic and epidemic #preparedness exercises were carried out between 2015 and 2019. They included Exercise Alice, which in 2016 tested the country’s readiness to cope with Middle East respiratory syndrome, caused by a coronavirus."
They stole, lied, and cheated us, and our #NHS! 😠
Field Day and POTA just fun and games? Not really.
Check to make sure your dog hasn't been nosing around in your go-bag.
Preparedness Takes Practice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUrZEoNdgRA
Haven’t been on much lately. Blasted real world things.
Speaking of which, look what showed up on my porch.
This is to power a generator to recharge the batteries that power the refrigerator and boiler water pump for heat during a power outage.
Last year’s long, dangerously cold outage shouldn’t happen again.
