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*laughs in millennial*

Jamaica invested heavily in climate disaster insurance. It looks about to pay off | CBC News Jamaica’s decade-long effort to build layers of financial protection in case of natural disasters might help the country access millions of dollars in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Melissa — an...

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I have a deep and abiding curiosity in catastrophe bonds and how they work in disaster recovery. As the feds dial down their support and states and locals will have to front more of these costs...is this how we deal?

Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.

Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.

But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.

With @theassemblync.bsky.social

RECOVERY HAS A WHOLE SKILL SET THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM RESPONSE AND WEATHER REPORTING. THIS IS LIKE ASKING AN ENT TO DISCUSS THE RECOVERY OF A CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY. SURE THEY ARE BOTH DOCTORS BUT THEY SPECIALIZE IN DIFFERENT THINGS.

If I called an elder by their first name w/o an honorific of some kind, I'm pretty sure my entire ancestry line would lose their collective minds.

Jamaica reveals no electricity and destruction after Hurricane Melissa With communication networks in Jamaica crippled, the true scale of the disaster remains unknown.

Trying to get information about Jamaica. I am so interested to learn more about the catastrophe bond mentioned at the end of the article.

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I could help with debris removal but not property remediation.

I'm not going to be doing interviews about Hurricane Melissa because I'm not an expert on emergency management in Jamaica.

(If anyone has recommendations of disaster researchers with that expertise who are available now, I can pass their names along.)

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.

Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

But what does this mean when you're faced with this administration? All I want to tell my people is that trust between the states and feds is irretrievably broken and states need to build their capacity in ways heretofore unknown. It's like an abusive relationship at this point.

Jamaica is responsible for less than 0.03% of global CO₂ emissions but faces almost unimaginable loss and damage in coming days at the hands of wealthy nations.

It's heartbreaking and utterly damning.

The landslides, flooding, and infrastructure damage will be catastrophic. I don't see that the national emergency management office in Jamaica has started calling for evacuations on their site, but I surely hope they are in ways more likely to reach the population in and around the mountains. 😮‍💨

Can't believe I'm on Marketplace today.

Emergency Management is a weird job category.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Really thinking about how green and pink used to be Cosmo and Wanda and now it's Elphaba and Glinda and I feel like we - as a society - lost a lil' something.

I work with a lot of unincorporated areas and have personally seen the gulf between perception and reality. I'm lucky that at least in my county there are some ties between the county and the communities - but Lord knows they could be better.

No I looked it up, but I'm still wondering what in the language shift happened that flapjacks are synonyms for pancakes, but granola bars in the UK. Language man, wholly made up and so kooky.

We've infected you with our Americanness to make you think it's a pancake. I'm so sorry.

a man in a floral shirt holds his finger to his lips while standing next to a woman in an orange sweater Alt: a man in a floral shirt holds his finger to his lips while standing next to a woman in an orange sweater saying "it's carnage"

Watching the #GBBO and I realize that I have (had?) no idea what a British flapjack was. I thought it was a pancake but these folks are making granola bars. Estoy muy confudida.

I love my job. Today I got to work with conservation engineers to come up with a project that will have emergency management impacts. I was the *dumbest person* in the room and it was amazing. Emergency management is the best and cross-sectoral collaboration makes the days even better. Let's go!

The super cool part of moving from the feds to local government during an authoritarian government takeover is that everyone knows that there isn't any hope, but can't find their way to a new path with both eyes open.

I need census.gov data and I can't get my county's profile to pull up. Does anybody have a way to pull up the number of language speakers in a county that's reported on a census without using a government site? my state and county don't capture the data 😭.

Me today - and it culminated in forgetting to pick up a child! 🫠

"Is the President of the United States descent into authoritarianism a smash or a pass?"

Be so for real @npr.org

📢 I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR 4 YEARS AND RESPONSES RANGE FROM "WELL THE MARKET WILL CORRECT ITSELF" TO "INSURANCE IS A SCAM ANYWAY" AND HONESTLY BELIEVING THAT CAPITALISM WILL SAVE YOU IS THE DUMBEST TAKE OUT OF THOSE TWO OPTIONS.

Are we learning the right lessons from Hurricane Helene? • NC Newsline As we remember Hurricane Helene’s devastation, too many people and communities are just beginning to rebuild. Yet one year after this historic storm, decisions at both the state and federal levels are...

One year after this historic storm, decisions at both the state and federal levels are undermining efforts to protect lives and property from future disasters. ncnewsline.com/2025/09/24/a... (commentary) #ncpol

....none of the employees are in Congress but sure let's fire them anyway. 😒

It sucks the way the humanities are being eroded & labeled unimportant. For every rant against a “new identity,” there is an ancient poem or painting or song or or or that tells us there is nothing new under the sun

a bunch of beakers sitting on top of a table ALT: a bunch of beakers sitting on top of a table

Today I feel like I am a collection of broken glass shards walking around and doing my best imitation of being human. The grief of mourning a relationship fucking sucks because I feel like I am 16 again but instead I much older than that and feel like I should be handling this better? Ugh.