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…
“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…
GridEx bottom line upfront GridEx is a biennial exercise run by North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). The latest iteration, GridEx IV, was held on November 15-16, 2017. Most Americans have never heard of GridEx and didn’t even know it was taking place. If fact, most people don’t really have a clear understanding of what…
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…
C-SPAN JULY 16, 2017. 27 minutes. Blake Sobczak on Energy Grid Security. Blake Sobczak of E and E News talked about U.S. energy grid security and recent cyber hacks to systems, including nuclear power plants. John McArdle, Host C-SPAN Blake Sobczak, Reporter E and E News
Presentation by Dr. William Radasky at the November 11, 2016 MIT Enterprise Forum of Texas program on the “Vulnerability of the electrical grid to a single high altitude nuclear blast or a severe solar storm.” BIO: Dr. William Radasky
What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history I’ve always loved this quote from Benjamin Disraeli. But it occurs to me that perhaps what is more dangerous than not learning from history, is learning from history. What most Americans have learned from their experiences with blackouts is…
Mar. 06, 2015 Fox News – Former CIA director James Woolsey issues dire warning about the dangers a nuclear Iran poses to the U.S. electric grid – and our very survival. Watch the latest video at <a href=”http://video.foxnews.com”>video.foxnews.com</a> Iran and North Korea are threats to the U.S. Electric Grid. Read the Washington Times article by…
Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense Act (GRID Act) Reintroduced The GRID Act is back on the table. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) and Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) introduced the Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense Act (GRID Act) in the both the House (H.R. 4298) and Senate (S. 2158) on March 26, 2014. “Unless we act now,…
Listen to Michael Mabee on the Denise Simon Experience show on March 13, 2014. We discuss the vulnerability of the electric grid, civil defense and community preparedness. (Two hours) Click the player below to listen to the discussion on Denise Simon Experience: