Many of our regular readers have gotten to know my passion for continuing to build a bridge between the heroes in the emergency management field and their counterparts in the property insurance industry. I was pleased to see that this …
La Niña arriving during the upcoming hurricane season might mean wilder waters, temporary housing is extended again to hundreds of Hurricane Ian victims, FEMA reports on its response to last year’s storms and efforts to do better, …
The Florida Legislature is also continuing its work on disaster recovery efforts from last year’s Hurricanes Ian and Nicole and now the recent Hurricane Idalia from August 30. The House Select Committee on Hurricane Resiliency …
The state of Florida is creating a new state emergency operations center from the ground up, some insight on Moody’s latest RMS hurricane model and how it will impact insurance ratemaking, plus the federal government …
Wildfire…tornadoes…hurricanes….earthquake…flash floods…and more. All of these catastrophes were the hots topics of conversation and especially instructive for a group of 8th– through 11th-graders from across the country who may one day become our next generation of …
Florida asks for a federal disaster declaration for the Ft. Lauderdale flooding, another condominium building deemed structurally unsafe is ordered evacuated, and a sneak peek at the forecast for the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season. It’s …
Nearly six months after Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida and $7 billion later in response and recovery spending, clean-up continues with more than 600 families still in hotel rooms.
FEMA reports that $6.97 billion …
The Florida Legislature meeting in special session the week before last agreed to pump hundreds of millions of dollars of extra funding into helping residents and local governments recover from the devastating effects …
The Florida Legislature begins a special session today to consider greatly bolstering disaster recovery efforts from Hurricanes Ian and Nicole as the death toll rises yet again, while local communities share the barriers to storm recovery. …
The Florida Legislature this past week began the first of six staggered weeks of legislative committee meetings leading to the start of the formal regular 60-day session on March 7. It coincided with Governor …
