“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…
Fox News: How secure is our nation’s power grid? Lawmakers push for more security and Federal protection (Feb. 08, 2014) Watch the latest video at <a href=”https://video.foxnews.com”>video.foxnews.com</a>
Gerri Willis of FOX News: America’s Outdated Power Grid a Security Risk? Electrical & Computer Engineering Professor Massoud Amin on why the U.S. needs to upgrade its power grid. Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
Crumbling roads and bridges and a flickering power grid – America’s infrastructure is creaking – and it’s becoming a BIG problem. And even though Mother Nature’s played a hand in wrecking supplies recently, the government is earmarking money for almost anything other than energy, as Marina Portnaya explains. Published on Jan 13, 2013 by RT.
