Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood

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This is very, uh, not great. Just fyi. Especially for those of us in the direct path of a major tsunami from Alaska. 🙃

🧵 on how the dismantling of USAID may affect the US search and rescue teams deployed to Jamaica.

This is actually part of what I want to do my dissertation on! Why do almost all of our fictional portrayals of disaster not show recovery?

Also, have you read “The Titanic Survivors Book Club”? Delightful fictional look at how some people who missed the boat tried to cope.

I think all sub sites are redirecting to the main ones from what I’ve seen.

Uggggh. Stickers are so easy and cheap to get professionally done these days. Yet people still do this.

Or the film on top peels off. 🥲

I am! Perhaps a little too much if you ask my wallet. 😂

Ugh, same. My career is going really well right now, this week specifically,which is WEIRD given I work in fire with the Forest Service.

So many things that could’ve prevented this from happening. It’s infuriating.

I’d be interested in this too. I can understand the pressure of feeling like you HAVE to answer concerned family, and wanting to try and contact family, but there’s obviously issues there. 🤔

What the fuck? Screw this shit.

Same. So much same.

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Now is a good time to call your members of Congress & tell them the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (under NOAA) needs to be funded. Without it, communities will face extreme funding cuts, have their ability to prepare for events like this one (and much worse) deeply affected.

He was in extreme danger for sure.

Please enjoy thirty seconds of a moose calf having EXTREME beef with my wishing well.

Oh this is fantastic.

As Trump Shrinks FEMA, State and Local Emergency Managers Say They’re Barely Getting By - Inside Climate News In a government survey, state and local officials said they were overworked, underpaid and underappreciated.

Thrilled to see @insideclimatenews.org reporting on the findings of the new Argonne survey of local and state emergency management capacity. This is a great summary.

insideclimatenews.org/news/2807202...

We’ve really gotta do more modern studies on wildfire prevention efforts, because a good majority of the literature is from the 60s and 70s. (And don’t even get me started on Smokey Bear…)

It took more than 72 hours after the flooding for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network.

I think this is obvious but I just want to highlight it in case it isn’t.

Taking 72 hours for Noem to personally approve search and rescue teams can be a literal death sentence.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...

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Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

Bluesky finally has notifications? DELIGHTFUL. Maybe it can start to finally fully take the place of Twitter in disaster communications. Just need to get more official accounts on here.

Trump Says FEMA Phaseout to Begin After Hurricane Season President Donald Trump said his team will move forward with winding down much of the Federal Emergency Management Agency — but not until after a hurricane season that some projections show could be pa...

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I would like to exit the bad place now please.

A digital illustration of three wildland firefighters watching a distant wildfire in the mountains at sunset. The fire is burning in a forest and putting up a thick, dark column of smoke. Everything is lit in warm, orange sunset light. The person in the foreground is sitting next to a chainsaw and among wildflowers. The other two figures are in the midground.

A detail shot of the foreground figure. She has her back to the camera and she is sitting with one knee pulled up, her arm draped over it. Next to her legs is a chainsaw.

A detail shot of the body of the chainsaw and some of the flowers.

A detail shot of the second midground figure, her back to the camera as she stares out at the fire, which is visible in the distance just above her head. The woman is sitting and leaning back on her hands.

New illustration! :D So happy with this one.

And I'm doing a special edition print run to fund a Spanish translation of my Emergency Evacuation Poster!

Preorder: www.aspenandcopper.com/product-page...

See the evac poster: www.katy-l-wood.com/posters?pgid...

#Wildfire #Illustration

A digital illustration of three wildland firefighters watching a distant wildfire in the mountains at sunset. The fire is burning in a forest and putting up a thick, dark column of smoke. Everything is lit in warm, orange sunset light. The person in the foreground is sitting next to a chainsaw and among wildflowers. The other two figures are in the midground.

A detail shot of the foreground figure. She has her back to the camera and she is sitting with one knee pulled up, her arm draped over it. Next to her legs is a chainsaw.

A detail shot of the body of the chainsaw and some of the flowers.

A detail shot of the second midground figure, her back to the camera as she stares out at the fire, which is visible in the distance just above her head. The woman is sitting and leaning back on her hands.

New illustration! :D So happy with this one.

And I'm doing a special edition print run to fund a Spanish translation of my Emergency Evacuation Poster!

Preorder: www.aspenandcopper.com/product-page...

See the evac poster: www.katy-l-wood.com/posters?pgid...

#Wildfire #Illustration

FEMA Has Canceled Its Four-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another in place.

SCOOP: Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned.

Warning Sirens Were Silent Ahead of Deadly Tornado in St. Louis, City Says

In St. Louis, the sirens to warn people of a tornado threat were not activated by the City Emergency Management Agency before a deadly tornado hit on Friday, and a backup to activate the mechanism that is operated by the Fire Department was broken.

Missed that this got mentioned! Neat! :D