Emergency Management El Niño On Track as One of the Worst December 15, 2015 by Julie Reynolds The November data for the Oceanic Niño Index is now in: this year is surely going to match the worst El Niños measured. As if the data needed any validation, the weather patterns associated with El Niño have now showed up- a marked decrease in hurricane activity in the Atlantic and increased activity in the Pacific. Read more »
Emergency Management State vs. Local Emergency Operations Technology Needs October 28, 2015 by Julie Reynolds Interacting closely with various municipal, county and State Emergency Operation teams over the years has revealed that significant differences exist in their technological needs. Read more »
Emergency Management El Niño, El Desastre: Part 3- Preparation October 14, 2015 by Julie Reynolds Our latest update (the yellow dot on the graph below) on El Niño from NOAA confirms earlier concerns; 2015-16 is going to be an extreme El Niño year and may equal or even exceed the devastation from the 1997-98 season. Read more »
Emergency Management El Niño, El Desastre: Part 2- UPDATED October 6, 2015 by Julie Reynolds El Niño 2015- a graph that says it all: be prepared. Read more »
Emergency Management El Niño, El Desastre: Part 1 September 22, 2015 by Julie Reynolds If you've spoken to a Californian lately or have been following the exceedingly weather-related news from the West Coast, you've heard about El Niño. El Niño has emergency managers along the West Coast worried. Read more »
Emergency Management Healthcare Is Your Hospital Ready for Hurricane Season? July 21, 2015 by Julie Reynolds While is it that time of the year again, the good news for 2015 is that the National Hurricane center predicts a below-average hurricane season with zero to two Category Three hurricanes. Read more »
Emergency Management Veoci Excels in Emergency Mass Dispensing Exercise June 22, 2015 by Julie Reynolds It is difficult to forget what became of the worst biological attacks in U.S. history as letters laced with anthrax began appearing in the U.S. mail very shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Read more »
Emergency Management Healthcare The 21st Century Playbook for Hospital Response to Crises June 3, 2015 by Julie Reynolds On Tuesday, June 2, 2015, Yale New Haven Health System - Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response (YNHHS-CEPDR) teamed up with Veoci to present their "Playbook for Disasters" to an audience of 78 from across the country. YNHHS is a nationally ranked hospital system with 3 acute care hospitals, including a level 1 trauma center, level 1 burn center and offsite locations throughout the state. Read more »
Emergency Management Infographic: Winter Storm Losses – $35 per Resident per Day April 28, 2015 by Veoci Staff Team Contribution Warmer days are finally here as we head towards summer and away from the record-breaking winter of 2015 with its blizzards, storms, massive snow accumulations, and various lingering effects (have you counted the number of new potholes in your neighborhood?). Read more »
Emergency Management Winter Storm Losses: $35 per Resident per Day March 5, 2015 by Sukh Grewal The Blizzard of 2015, which in January inaugurated a series of winter storms across the northeastern US that continue to this day, is estimated by various experts to have cost the economy between $500 million and $1 billion. Read more »
