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Civil Defense

All Roads Lead to Civil Defense

Posted on January 7, 2018February 22, 2018 by Michael Mabee

All Roads Lead to Civil Defense: Survival is a local Issue. Civil defense is the organizing and training of civilians to play key roles in a community’s survival. Another term for this, coined by Civil Defense Virginia, is “continuity of community.” The concept is simple: A community’s citizens, in partnership with their emergency management and…

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Emergency Preparedness

A Sea Change in 2018 for Emergency Preparedness

Posted on December 26, 2017February 22, 2018 by Michael Mabee

“While each year the hurricane season comes to an end on November 30, the lessons from the response and recovery operations that we are performing this year, under incredibly difficult circumstances, will transform the field of emergency management forever.” – FEMA Administrator Brock Long, November 30, 2017. Building a culture of emergency preparedness is now…

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Pre-Disaster Mitigation: It’s Time to Change the Culture

Posted on December 16, 2017June 13, 2018 by Michael Mabee

  “We have to do more pre-disaster mitigation. Pre-disaster mitigation is the key to becoming more resilient and reducing disaster impact.” – FEMA Administrator Brock Long FEMA says pre-disaster mitigation has to be a whole community effort In last week’s blog post, I discussed Brock Long’s comments to the House Appropriations Committee on November 30,…

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FEMA Administrator Brock Long

FEMA Administrator Brock Long: Time to hit the reset button on resiliency

Posted on December 9, 2017March 7, 2018 by Michael Mabee

FEMA Administrator Brock Long has it right FEMA Administrator Brock Long testified before the House Appropriations Committee on November 30, 2017 and what he said was a game changer. Here are some key points he made: “While each year the hurricane season comes to an end on November 30, the lessons from the response and recovery…

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Civil Defense

Resilient and Prepared Communities: Emergency Managers and Citizens Finding Common Ground

Posted on December 3, 2017April 21, 2019 by Michael Mabee

We all want resilient and prepared communities This week, I was in touch with a group of citizens who started a non-profit civil defense organization, Civil Defense Virginia. They are approaching emergency managers in their area to talk about the benefits of a grassroots civil defense organization. I was also in touch with an emergency…

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Civil Defense Book Background

What is Civil Defense and why don’t we have it?

Posted on November 16, 2017November 16, 2017 by Michael Mabee

Civil defense gradually morphed into emergency management. There are several good documents that give us the history of civil defense in the United States. Here is one from FEMA and here is an interesting manual (FEMA 107) from 1986. (Thank you to the Civil Defense Museum for making this available to us!) It can be hard to parse…

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Best Case Scenarios?

Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Maria were both “best case scenarios”

Posted on October 21, 2017November 23, 2017 by Michael Mabee

We have always had hurricanes. We always will. In one very important way, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Maria were both best case scenarios. Prior to Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans in 2005, we knew that the levy system was only built to handle a category 3 hurricane. And prior to Hurricane Maria hitting Puerto Rico,…

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Skills vs. Stuff

Skills vs Stuff for Preppers (and other thoughts)

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Michael Mabee

Skills vs Stuff — what is more important? Also, books we got at the library sale and other thoughts I had while weeding my garden.     Skills vs Stuff A lot of new preppers make the mistake on spending a lot of money on a lot of “airborne-death-machine” tactical gear that may be nice…

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Critical Infrastructure Protection

Civil Defense: Why We Need a Congressional Resolution

Posted on April 6, 2014April 6, 2014 by Michael Mabee

Civil Defense: Why We Need It Here are two undisputed facts: FACT: The electric grid is extremely vulnerable to a variety of natural and man-made threats. FACT: A long-term loss of the electric grid would be catastrophic for the U.S. Everything depends on the electric grid. Food, water, fuel, sanitation, medical services, the economy and…

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Community Preparedness: Is Your Town Prepared for a Long Term Blackout?

Community Preparedness: Is Your Town Prepared for a Long Term Blackout?

Posted on March 19, 2014December 17, 2017 by Michael Mabee

Congress thinks we need a community preparedness “civil defense” plan for a long term electric grid outage. So why doesn’t your town have one?  “Seven U.S. government departments and agencies have now concluded that if our national electric grid is not upgraded to ensure its continuity in the event of a massive solar event —…

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