Jeffery Harvey, DEL, CEM

Mayors worry about cybersecurity almost as much as substance use, mental health The National League of Cities’ State of the Cities survey found that 39% of mayors are very concerned about cyber, which is not far behind more traditional public health issues.

www.route-fifty.com/cybersecurit...

Years ago, I had the opportunity to serve as the technical writer on a project about #HazardMitigation and #LowImpactDevelopment. I was fascinated by the little things people can do.

Is it THE solution? Of course not. But I still like pushing ideas for things like this.

#Heat | #Heatwave

I've used various climate data sources in risk reduction and #HazardMitigation plans for years now. When this data disappears from the obvious sites, it puts the responsibility on us to find it via the lengthier means and accurately cite the path that remains available.

“If students don’t collaborate well, that’s your clue to do it more often, not less. But structure it. Teach them how to create norms, find consensus, and move on after a disagreement.” —Heather Wolpert-Gawron, Teacher

#EduSky #teachers

Definitely an interesting piece. Grist, the Daily Yonder, and AppVoices have produced some interesting (to read) and engaging work on Helene - and the recent KY tornadoes. Good stuff!

I've always been supportive of the decisions young folks make w/ respect to their vocation. It's the messaging of these things that gets under my skin. No nuance. No "weigh options." No "have a plan."

Very much to your point. It's "what you should do" or a cash grab - all benefit, no risk.

It's alarming to me how quickly the "aren't supposed to want to go to college" is becoming an identity. I see it in the "make more $ sooner in the trades rather than waste it on college" messaging. In WV, I see it in the resistance to any development that isn't at least obliquely related to coal.

As a consultant, it was natural to build on my frequent push for clients & stakeholders to build networks. To share #leadership of the effort.

To truly operationalize the whole community.

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Years ago, when the focus (rightly) turned to functional & access needs populations, there was a push within emergency mgmt. to "inventory" all the folks with potential needs.

My refrain at that time was to "find the service providers."

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‘Come Hell or High Water’: A Harm Reduction Team Amps It Up in Response to a Disaster | The Daily Yonder By noon Friday, September 27, 2024, downtown Marshall was pretty much washed under, but Ainsley Bryce was as yet unaware. Bryce lives on a communal plot

There's a line in the article that speaks to not doing something new, but rather to ramping up what the org. already does.

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#EmergencyManagement | #CommunityResilience | #Community | #CrisisManagement | #Disasters | #GreySky

dailyyonder.com/come-hell-or...

Happy West Virginia Day!

I know what you've heard about it. But, there are good people here, doing good things, and fighting for good things. One of these days, you'll hear about them, too.

No matter where in the country I am, I am always a West Virginian.

Great sentiment - it IS complicated, but it very much IS home.

How the Trump plan for the federal budget hurts Appalachia Late afternoon on Friday, May 30, President Donald Trump released his proposed fiscal year 2026 government funding budget, which includes steep cuts that would have serious consequences for Appalachians and people in coal communities across the country if enacted. 

President Donald Trump released his proposed fiscal year 2026 government funding budget, which includes steep cuts that would have serious consequences for Appalachians and people in coal communities across the country if enacted.
https://appvoices.org/2025/06/17/trump-budget-hurts-appalachia/

Cool...cool...cool...it's okay universe. I'm not going to think anything negative by starting the day spilling coffee down the front of my shirt.

Cuts to FEMA's storm prep program hammer communities that voted for Trump A CBS News investigation found two-thirds of counties that have lost funding from this FEMA program supported President Trump in the 2024 election.

In an era when people are consumed by "cost savings," #HazardMitigation is the only real option with a chance of reliably reducing long-term #disaster -related costs.

Another in a long list of articles revealing just how mind-numbing the decision to cancel BRIC was.

www.cbsnews.com/femagrantcuts/

Is Coffee Good for You? (Published 2020)

A little light reading...over your morning coffee, of course.

www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/s...

Wordplay tidbits and potential trivia notes...can't resist 'em.

Faced with rising temps, Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees Climate change is driving more dangerous summer heat across the U.S. Las Vegas, which reached 120 degrees last summer, is planting thousands of trees to help cool its hottest neighborhoods.

An interesting story, but please (please, please) read it as a #HazardMitigation strategy for extreme heat (rather than an *overall* climate change solution).

I continue to contend (like many others) that extreme #heat is far too-rarely considered as a serious #risk.

www.npr.org/2025/06/09/n...

Today in History: June 9, Secretariat wins Triple Crown in record time 1954: "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" 1986: Challenger disaster report released 2013: Nadal sets tennis major record

For full transparency/disclosure (I'm working to be more diligent on this!), here's the citation for the "day in history" note: apnews.com/today-in-his...

In other news for disaster-interested folks, see the 1978 flooding in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

On this day in 1986, the Rogers Commission released its report on the Challenger Disaster. A trivia tidbit for us disaster nerds.

I was too young to follow all of the hearings afterward, but the Challenger was the first (non-flooding) crisis I remember.

The report: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

I found myself digging this thread a little too much. Stats disguised as music trivia.

‘Trust is the currency’ in local government, and tech can help build it Leaders must think about programs and their goals first and then use technology to help them get there, but when done right, it becomes vital help, speakers at a recent conference said.

I would go so far as to say, "Trust is the currency" for any community-building (or sustaining) effort.

www.route-fifty.com/digital-gove...

Williamson School Becomes Focus Of After-Flood Recovery - West Virginia Public Broadcasting Colton Copley and Greg Williams are cousins and eighth graders at Williamson PK8 School in Mingo County. When the rain started, they were

Collaboration is nothing new for rural communities.

Who is there to lean on? They lean on one another.

The word "community" is what makes the whole community concept work - not just all agencies on the invitation roster.

#Rural | #EmergencyManagement | #Leadership

wvpublic.org/williamson-s...

I see overlaps, believe it or not, in current #cyber #preparedness efforts and #BusinessContinuity in the early/mid 2000s. There was a feeling that there was "software for that," and we then forgot about the people at the ends of all the loose strings.

Schools are ‘strikingly collaborative’ amid cybersecurity threats, K-12 leader says While it may appear tricky to get schools to share information across state and jurisdictional lines, one observer says there are reasons to be optimistic amid multiplying threats.

#Leaders of all ilk, another instance to resist looking for the all-tech solution. At some point, you'll need a plan to maximize the tech & educate your front line, and the wherewithal to stick with it & make it all happen.

#CrisisManagement | #Cybersecurity

www.route-fifty.com/cybersecurit...

Terrific quote from the article: "'There is not just one rural America,' Johnson told the Daily Yonder in a hone interview. 'There's really several rural Americas, and they're all different from one another.'"

International Immigrants Drive Rural Population Growth  | The Daily Yonder Nearly 300,000 people have immigrated from abroad to nonmetropolitan, or rural, counties since 2020, driving most of the growth in rural America during

This article both speaks to and hints at the richness of the rural population. How might local entities lead when balancing the depth of their own cultures with an infusion of the cultures of others?

#Rural | #Leadership

dailyyonder.com/internationa...

Jeffery Harvey's Review of Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler - Hardcover Read Jeffery Harvey's review of Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler on Hardcover

My review of "The Parable of the Sower," by Octavia E. Butler.

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The Kentucky tornadoes spur mounting anxiety over weather service warning systems Trump weakened the understaffed National Weather Service. Some in the storms' paths wonder if those cuts contributed to the death toll.

The Kentucky tornadoes spur mounting anxiety over weather service warning systems.

Trump weakened understaffed National Weather Service offices. Some people in the storms' path wonder if budget cuts contributed to the death and destruction.

grist.org/extreme-weat...

#Weather #Climate #Kentucky

Where Have All My Deep Male Friendships Gone?

Where Have All My Deep Male Friendships Gone? You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/m...