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Secure the electric grid - long-term power outage preppers

Long-Term Power Outage: There Is No Plan

Posted on October 27, 2018October 28, 2018 by Michael Mabee

The federal government has no plan for a long-term power outage As disturbing as it might be, despite the numerous threats to the U.S. electric grid, the federal government has no plan for a long-term power outage. FEMA recently admitted this at the National Preparedness Symposium on May 24, 2018: “Current planning does not include any contingencies for…

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Congress: Hold DHS Accountable for Protecting the Electric Grid

Posted on April 22, 2018April 22, 2018 by Michael Mabee

  Hold DHS Accountable For Protecting the Electric Grid Recently, I asked the question: “Is DHS Dropping the Ball on Critical Infrastructure Protection?” On December 23, 2016, the provisions of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act (CIPA) were passed as section 1913 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. (Click here for the relevant 4…

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FEMA Critical Infrastructure Protection

Is DHS Dropping the Ball on Critical Infrastructure Protection?

Posted on March 18, 2018March 18, 2018 by Michael Mabee

    Congress Passed Critical Infrastructure Protection Provisions in 2016 The Critical Infrastructure Protection Act was a bill introduced in Congress in 2013 and 2015 and finally passed in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (NDAA). Congress said the provisions were designed to “to protect Americans from an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), a…

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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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Threats to the Electric Grid

Threats to the Electric Grid and the Sense of Congress

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

Bipartisan agreement about threats to the electric grid There has been little bipartisan agreement in Congress about anything in the last decade. Healthcare, taxes, the budget – you name it, they disagree on it. There is one glaring exception: The threats to the electric grid from a variety of man-made and natural threats. They all…

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GridEx

GridEx: Is This Exercise Enough to Protect Critical Infrastructures?

Posted on November 18, 2017February 18, 2018 by Michael Mabee

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…

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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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Critical Infrastructure Protection

Critical Infrastructure Protection – Two Decades of Failure

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Michael Mabee

Why has so little critical infrastructure protection passed congress?   I just don’t get it. I mean, I understand why Congress is struggling on health care and tax reform. The reds and the blues have different opinions and different philosophies and apparently nobody wants to compromise. I get that. It’s the same on a lot…

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