On Tuesday, Rebecca Williams and I are presenting “Whole Community Digital Communications Planning” and “The Proper Tool is Everything: Affordable Social Media Tools” at #APCO2017. These are critically important topics for any local government. It’s no longer a question of whether your jurisdiction will face a crisis. It’s a question …
Disaster Info Team and Stormzero LLC have been accepted as NOAA Weather-Ready Nation Ambassadors. What is this program and what does this mean? According to NOAA, “The Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador™ initiative is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) effort to formally recognize NOAA partners who are improving the nation’s …
Living my entire adult life in northern (and not coastal) NJ, my experience with severe weather emergencies revolved around snow, ice, flooding, and the associated power failures that could last weeks. We typically had time to prepare for a weather-related event. Professionally, at county government, we’d put out preparedness information relating …
On September 16, 1999, Carol A Spencer was the mayor of Denville Township NJ when Hurricane Floyd, then Tropical Storm Floyd, slammed New Jersey. Six people died in NJ. Denville suffered its worst flooding in more than 20 years. An IT professional, Spencer had put Denville on the web in 1996, …
