Still time to enter our student paper competition. Currently enrolled in flood risk management related college courses? Win cash & a trip to Fort Worth. Present at ASFPM conference in June. Abstracts due this Friday. @floodsorg

Win a trip to ASFPM Ft. Worth Conference in June

good for you Bill. Sleepers are the way to go

FEMA seems to be using updated disaster costs for the 2010 decade--very good and a huge number--almost $40 Billion/year. They then translate how much mitigation needs to be done to address that number, using the 6:1 B/C for mitigation

Today's hero is Siavash Beik, an engineer at @CbbelIndy who incorporates #climatechange projections and #resilient design in #floodplain and urban #stormwater management. #HRH2020

Siavash is a true professional, interested in helping people and communities be safer and more resilient. He has mentored many in our profession and we thank him for that Larry Larson

Take action today: Join @AmericanRivers in urging Congress to strengthen dam safety rules to better protect people and the environment. e-activist.com/encoded/url/wi…

The U.S. Senate voted 73 to 25 on Wednesday to approve the Great American Outdoors Act, a bipartisan move to permanently and fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund bayjournal.com/news/growth_co…

Retweet if you’d heard of Juneteenth.

Endorse: "Recommendation: Congress should direct FEMA to collaborate with industry experts to create a private all-hazards insurance program that would cover all natural hazards, be available directly from insurers, and meet federal purchase requirements" climatecrisis.house.gov/sites/climatec…

Lt. General who led Katrina evacuations warns of pollution risk from climate-driven extreme weather following Hurricane Laura | The Independent | Independent ⁦LDEQ⁩ ⁦LouisianaCPRA⁩ ⁦Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ)⁩ ⁦Gov. John Bel Edwards⁩ ⁦U.S. EPA⁩ independent.co.uk/environment/hu…

Rising spending on Social Security led to falling rates of poverty for the elderly go.epi.org/8Ip

Why the U.S. needs a $15 minimum wage: epi.org/publication/wh…

Paris Is Planning To Become A ’15-minute City’ weforum.org/videos/paris-i… via World Economic Forum

“Climate change is forcing us to face an uncomfortable truth: We’ve developed affordable housing in places that we previously hadn’t developed for a reason, like flood plains, and now we need to unwind that mistake.” njherald.com/story/news/202… New Jersey Herald #ClimateCentral

CALL TO ACTIVISM Joe Biden Forbes also released this.

FEMA has extended the deadline for comments on how the NFIP can be strengthened. You now have until Jan. 27. To have your comments included in ASFPM’s response, please send them to [email protected] by Jan. 12. federalregister.gov/documents/2021…

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Dumb "fill and build" development in St. Louis area will probably make recurring flood problems even worse. That's why members of ⁦@AnthropoceneAL⁩ have called on @FEMA to prohibit this practice. #FloodFEMA stltoday.com/opinion/editor…

Did you get the memo? A recent FEMA memo establishes the use of a pre-calculated benefit to demonstrate cost effectiveness for Repetitive Loss (RL) and Severe Repetitive Loss (SRL) projects located outside the designated Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA). floods.org/news-views/fem…