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@SamLMontano
May 15 • 13 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
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I'd like to share the final list of movies for the Disaster Film class I'll be teaching in the fall! #EMGTwitter

Before I do... some of you are going to be in a huff about certain movies not being included but I need y'all to be chill. (Some of you were not chill last time.)
I assure you have given this a lot of thought and this is what's best for this particular course and my particular students. This is set in stone so there's no negotiation that needs to happen.

Okay, here we go.
Disaster Film as Popular Culture: 100 Years of The Titanic

A Night to Remember (1958) Image
Disaster Films as an Avenue for Collective Anxiety

The China Syndrome (1979) Image
Disaster Films as Military Propaganda: The Civil Defense Era

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Image
Disaster Film Through the Lens of Race, Class, & Gender

The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Image
Fact vs. Fiction: Disaster Film as a Voyage for Myth Making

Volcano (1997) Image
Disaster Film as Spectacle

San Andreas (2015) Image
Pandemics for Disaster Film Fodder

Contagion (2011) Image
The Art of Making A Disaster Film

Sharknado (2013) Image
Disaster Film: Disrupting Corporate Power

Erin Brockovich (2000) Image
The Next Era of Disaster Film: Climate Change

Beasts of The Southern Wild (2012) Image
"It's all just asteroids!"

Don’t Look Up (2021) Image

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May 15
I have never seen US emergency managers panic over anything as much as they do when someone suggests cutting EMPG funding.

So, we thought we should probably do a bit of research on it. #EMGTwitter

@Gerber_Chavez_ @amsavitt @tbcorbin & @DowneyDavia Image
The Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) is a ~$355 million annual grant program that gives a few million dollars to each state for preparedness-related needs.

This is not a perfect program but for now, it's what we have.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/Z…
EMPG funding is used for a range of things including upgrading equipment, funding education programs, plan development, and most importantly paying emergency managers salaries.

Practitioners and academics have been very clear that this grant must be protected. Image
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May 8
I want to highlight this Frontline from @yessfun.

A fire in New England (or the northeast, generally) is one of the future disasters that keep me up at night. It's not just the conditions changing but that we don't have the capacity to respond.

atmos.earth/wildfires-nort…
We've done very little to prepare. The population has no clue how to respond, we don't have the people, or equipment to fight effectively. We don't have people with a depth of knowledge. We're not mitigating.
One of Mainer's favorite phrases - "you can't get there from here" would single-handedly leave us dead in the water in large swaths of Maine.
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Oct 6, 2022
This disaster article is so terrible (and dangerous, frankly) that I'm going to use it as an example of what not to do in my media & disaster course.

nytimes.com/2022/10/05/us/…
First of all, it's immediately clear that they have zero understanding of what FEMA does or how the US emergency management system works. As a result they're just parroting what a random group of people think FEMA should be doing... okay???

The most egregious part for me is that NYT is just fully repeating looting claims, specifically by undocumented people, with no evidence when we know this is extremely unlikely post-disaster. This contributes to racist narratives that put people of color at risk post-disaster.
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Oct 3, 2022
🧵Here's a thread of important things to keep in mind as this disaster unfolds.

#EMGTwitter
1. This wasn't a "natural disaster". Disasters result when there is an *interaction* between a hazard and us to the point that the impacts/ needs overwhelm our communities. There's always more than one factor that creates our risk.

2. Everyone is NOT running around looting. People are NOT frozen with panic. Martial Law has NOT been declared. The vast majority of people are making the best decisions they can with the information and resources they have.

blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/t…
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Sep 30, 2022
Inspired by this NYT article -- What's the difference between "declaration cost-share" and "supplemental aid"?

We love an early morning disaster policy thread!

nytimes.com/2022/09/29/us/…
Declaration Cost-Share.

When a state gets a Presidential Disaster Declaration (PDD) from the White House (at governor's request, through FEMA and per the Stafford Act) the usual agreement is that FEMA pays 90% of relevant costs for Public Assistance...
... (think response costs, debris removal, rebuilding infrastructure, etc.). The other 10% of costs has to be covered by the state. In really expensive disasters, or when it's a poorer state, they will ask to eliminate the cost share and the federal government will pay 100%.
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Sep 18, 2022
Fiona is the latest reminder that storm category does not tell you what the damage will be -- it's the geography & vulnerabilities of the communities. Also, that when communities are kept from the resources needed to rebuild *quickly* they are more vulnerable to the next hazard.
This is why we need comprehensive emergency management reform at the federal, state/territory, and local levels. The Biden administration could do this. Members of Congress could *start* this conversation.
There are researchers, EM professionals, community activists, and survivors who are able to do this work and do it quickly but there HAS to be political support.

Every day this doesn't happen more communities are forced into the situation you see unfolding in Puerto Rico.
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