Twenty years ago, Katrina taught America devastating lessons. The administration’s policies against strategizing to protect society’s most vulnerable are a recipe for a repeat. “Much like we see ...

The word “disaster” used to mean “a dire or catastrophic incident causing harm or tragedy to many people.” Some of the disasters that have harmed the American people in recent history include the ...

What is a disaster? No one really knows. This conclusion emerges despite decades of contemporary disaster science following centuries of people aiming to explain how and why disasters happen. Commonly ...

See the text below that I read earlier this morning. Most of this is on the money in my book. I'm reading American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11 by James M Kendra and Tricia ...