Getting my kindergartener ready for bed last night, I was overcome with sadness, anger, grief, frustration. I’m an emergency manager. I work to protect communities from ALL hazards and reduce our shared risk. Also, disasters are not natural. 1/ Disasters are the result of policy decisions, often how and where we build, and the investments we choose to make. Or not to make. We develop mitigation strategies and make recommendations to policymakers to reduce our risk from fires, floods, earthquakes and other hazards. 2/