Hugh Deeming

‘Mud on our hands; blood on his’: fury lingers one year after Spain’s deadly floods Survivors in Valencia call for consequences, particularly for regional president, after country’s worst natural disaster this century

"...if there had been warning, that huge mass of water – that catastrophe; that apocalypse – would still have come down, and all those cars would have been swept away and all those houses would have been flooded. But there wouldn’t have been as many deaths."

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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth Welsh voters have rejected Labour and Starmerite managerialism. By offering hope and not division we showed the populist right can be beaten, says Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru

How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth

Pedantic I know, but there should have been an 'Unaffiliated/Other' group in the graph (i.e., mean 'Very Negative' for the groups shown is 48.2% not 41%)

Goodbye FEMA, Hello Disaster Consultants Pushing more responsibility for disaster response onto the states will mean depending more on private contractors.

@zoeschlanger.bsky.social from the @theatlantic.com with an under appreciated dynamic in the discussions swirling around FEMA reforms - the role of private sector consultants. Read with this gift link:

Thousands evacuated in Spain amid deadly wildfires and new heatwave Temperatures of 44C predicted as blazes rage across Europe

When you see these pictures, remember that the exiting civil servant Chair of the UK Climate Change Committee said, not long back, that 2050 would be very much like today

As I said at the time, utter, irresponsible, bollox

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See my LinkedIn post Guy

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I visited the museum two weeks ago. The whole place was dark, tired, and uninspiring.

And to realise it was an actual body on display…I don’t know what to say.

…except, Yes! The answer is Yes!

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20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…

Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%

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Watching the shocking imagery of tourists running off the slopes of Etna ahead of a collapsing pyroclastic cloud is making me think of Galeras, Chouet's harmonic tremors...and most importantly, how we need to continue to develop effective warning systems to keep people safe...even adventurous ones

Alan. Great insight, thank you…that is going into a paper I’m writing right now (adding to @LucyGoBag’s ‘needs’ perspective)

My first word search in tomorrow's #SDR will be "Article 3"

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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Crowd behaviour in emergencies has previously been explained in terms of either ‘mass panic’ or strength of pre-existing social bonds. The present paper reports results from a study comparing high- v...

Other work I did with @profjohndrury.bsky.social on mass emergencies also found that people co-operate with each other & the idea of selfish 'panic' is a myth. This is shown in the way that #Liverpool has come together after this terrible incident
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Vehicle As a Weapon (VAW) Detection Guidance This guidance is primarily focussed on Vehicle As a Weapon (VAW) detection technology as part of NPSA’s wider Vehicle Borne Threats, HVM and MTA programmes of work

All I can take from this NPSA guidance, is the immense challenge involved in countering vehicle-as-weapon threats.

Please, beware the 9 o'clock jury with 'easy' answers.
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Come What May: Book Review When I first read Professor Lucy Easthope’s first book When the Dust Settles we hadn’t met, and yet I suddenly felt like I knew her so well. She wrote candidly and honestly about her life in disast…

It is a book I have been waiting for and here is my review of @lucygobag.bsky.social 's latest book Come What May.

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@selyst2023.bsky.social have a read of this, and imagine where I'm thinking these findings' application may be useful? 😉

Graphic showing rainfall intensity increasing in the UK from 1891 to 2024

When it rains, it now rains more

Same reason C-17 ELVIS33 was over mine two days running?

The Amber Book - Managing Crisis in Central Government The Amber Book provides a framework for how UK central government collectively responds to crises that require co-ordinated action across government

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So, I've just read the new HMG 'Amber Book', and have to admit I'm impressed. It is comprehensive and IMO provides a more encompassing - 'Whole of Society' cognizant - structure than the old CONOPS.
I find it reassuring that Cabinet Office 'get's it'.

Also, only 3 typos

Some thoughts on strengthening national resilience, by increasing… | Hugh Deeming Some thoughts on strengthening national resilience, by increasing highway-sector preparedness for emergencies

And I use NATO Art3 and EU Preparedness Union strategy as context for ned to improve our ‘lifeline’ Highway resilience here: www.linkedin.com/posts/hugh-d...

Debate: How can we better understand and communicate flood risk? | New Civil Engineer NCE and Fathom brought experts together for a debate about how we achieve a better understanding of flood risk, and what can be done about it

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"Using checklists rather than relying on memory" There we go again 💯

AI can only analyse the data it’s given…apparently

News of the #IceStorm in #Ontario, got me reaching for Murphy's ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️forensic analysis of leadership following their 1998 disaster.
One of the themes he discusses will be familiar to people here, but it also made me think about direct parallels with the Valcencia floods.

UK: recommended from @hasisd.bsky.social. Linking the EU Preparedness Union strategy back into a UK framing, but also highlighting complementarities across approaches. The operationalisation of WoS is not just LGD-led, but from within sector & then cross-lifeline. Key point on #militarymobility...

Find out more about our ESRC-funded project ‘Perceived threats and “stampedes”: a relational model of
collective fear responses’ in our accessible report:

Public behaviour in response to perceived hostile threats: An evidence base and guide for practitioners and policymakers
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Some thoughts on strengthening national resilience, by increasing… | Hugh Deeming Some thoughts on strengthening national resilience, by increasing highway-sector preparedness for emergencies

Following the publication of the EU Joint Communication on Preparedness, I've written a piece on how strengthening highway sector preparedness could increase national resilience...
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