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11 Nov, 10 tweets, 5 min read
Hello everyone!

Hitting play in just a few minutes!

Tweet along with #DATM

I’m an assistant professor in the emergency management program at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. A bunch of my Intro to Emergency Management students will be joining us tonight as well!
"Things aren't as bad as they could be" is very close to my favorite saying "things can always get worse"! #DATM
Same energy. #DATM
This deliberation over how to respond to a hazard that isn't explicitly written in policy is actually similar to discussions about the appropriateness of using the Stafford Act for the pandemic. #DATM
Thanks for sharing this Dr. Neal!

My students: you'll recognize Dr. Quarantelli's name from class.

#DATM

If you really want to nerd out you can read Dr. Quarantelli's research on disaster movies here: udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/4…

#DATM
Well, well, well.

I see we have another disaster movie in need of a gender analysis. #DATM
I see @ArcticTroy just joined us. He wrote a great article about this movie called “Disaster management meets king of the monsters”. You can download it here: researchgate.net/publication/34…

#DATM
(Hint for my students: This article will be particularly useful for you when writing your paper on the movie.) #DATM
This definitely is the most accurate portrayal of emergency management that I've ever seen in a disaster movie!

Thanks for tweeting along everyone -- especially @Jdlazo and @k8hutton! #DATM

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10 Nov
People keep sending me this and omg, no, I have no idea why Mainers are eating side salads.

My family ate pizza for Thanksgiving last year so... 🤷‍♀️
Honestly, this seems like the best explanation other than that this map is just made up.

BREAKING: Salad map makes local news

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9 Nov
I've gotten a lot of questions this weekend about what I mean by “comprehensive emergency management reform” and also what Biden could immediately do for emergency management.

So, let me do a thread where I vaguely answer.
First, I use the term “comprehensive emergency management reform” to indicate that we need massive changes to how we approach mitigating, preparing, responding, & recovering from all types of disaster (climate-related or not). This means different things to different people.
My guiding light is that we need EM to be effective, efficient, & just. So any change that would move us towards that goal is something I would include here. I emphasize comprehensive bc we have a tendency to do piecemeal adjustments that don’t fully solve our problems.
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9 Sep
It is, as always, important to point out that according to this the president made response decisions based on his belief a disaster myth — that the public panics in times of disaster — which disaster scholars have studied for over 50 years. ImageImage
Whether it’s officials delaying calls for wildfire evacuations or not being truthful w/the public about the scope & severity of an emerging pandemic lives are put at risk — and lost — when public officials make decisions based on a false belief about human behaviors in disasters.
It is horrifying and, frankly, lazy.

We know how to respond to these events. We have a century of damn research on this. We have practitioners with decades of experience. Yet, none of that matters when the person in charge won’t listen.
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26 Aug
This is not an image you ever want to see.

I’ve studied flooding in TX & LA for almost a decade & Port Arthur is one of the places I lose sleep over the most.

Port Arthur often gets overlooked because they aren't Houston but they have been through A LOT so, A THREAD:
Port Arthur sits at the intersection of all kinds of vulnerability. They sit right up against Sabine Lake, next to the Gulf. The flood infrastructure system desperately needs to be upgraded. Yes, climate change is a factor.
As of 2017 nearly 1/3 of residents lived in poverty & they have been hit hard by the economic impacts of the failed pandemic response. Decades of policies- especially related to recovery- have compounded racial inequality throughout Port Arthur.
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22 Aug
👏🏻 the 1927 Mississippi flood 👏🏻
Here’s a thread.
Then listen to this podcast episode:

npr.org/2020/04/22/841…
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17 Aug
The national media’s failure to cover the destruction from the derecho in Iowa is identical, nearly to the day, of their failure to cover the Louisiana flooding four years ago.

A short thread.
August 10, 2020: Derecho across the Midwest with the most severe impacts occurring across 26 counties in Iowa en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_20…

August 12, 2016: An unnamed rainstorm floods across 21 parishes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Loui…
In both cases the damage was extensive and immediately obvious. They were events that would, by any reasonable assumption, garner the widespread attention of the national media.

Yet, there was near silence.
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