gettingtoresilience

Surfacing resilience with data; advocate of merging resilience & sustainability. Views are my own.

[gettingtoresilience @Get2Resilience]

Bipartisan legislation for a Federal Chief Resilience Officer. Would love to see similar support for local governments

[Sen. Lisa Murkowski @lisamurkowski]

Alaskan communities are facing an increasing number of damaging weather events bringing flooding, coastal erosion, severe winter storms, permafrost melt, and wildfires. A single clear and coordinated federal approach to disaster preparedness and climate resilience is the right thing to do for communities in Alaska and across the country.

https://t.co/OGq53VEBNA

[gettingtoresilience @Get2Resilience]

@GGBridge Will Golden Gate Transit bus routes be impacted by APEC next week? Most interested in 172 bus. Do you recommend SMART to Ferry instead?

[gettingtoresilience @Get2Resilience]

@SFMTA_Muni I catch MUNI after I get off @Caltrain at 4th and King and ride to Embarcadero Station. I wait at station on King @ 4th St but many mornings watch many trains on 4th @ King head out ahead of mine. How do I know which station to stand at to make my transfer efficient?

[gettingtoresilience @Get2Resilience]

Big news from earlier in 2023, @CalQuake expanded their retrofit offerings to include soft story -- they have a pilot $13k grant program to support a seismic retrofit. Without a retrofit these homes are likely to have significant damage in the next quake. https://t.co/etF17YEtgo

[gettingtoresilience @Get2Resilience]

@CaltrainAlerts What's the hold up for 412? We're still stopped.

[Enterprise Community Partners @EnterpriseNow]

Today we are proud to announce that @ShaunDonovanNYC, former @HUDgov secretary and affordable housing leader, will be our next CEO and president. https://t.co/iLYjNykx6v

[gettingtoresilience @Get2Resilience]

@MaxCRoser Berat was the highlight from my one week Albania trip earlier this year. Was very doable to get there after landing in Tirana.

[gettingtoresilience @Get2Resilience]

@allafarce There are lessons from '94 Northridge and the creation of the CEA. The core challenge is the price of the risk is high -like earthquake. People are going to need to pay a lot more for insurance until landscape and community scale investment decrease the risk.

[Michael Wara @MichaelWWara]

State Farm is stopping the sale of new home-insurance policies in California effective Saturday, because of wildfire risk and rapid inflation in construction costs https://t.co/Ob63c2X0og

[Michael Wara @MichaelWWara]

The right move here is not to throw up your hands and say the models suck (or could be better). It is to limit the forecast duration. Make them at most for the decade ahead - because nobody knows (and so can't model). That's good policy advising.

[Michael Wara @MichaelWWara]

The approach taken by @EIAgov (NEMS) developed in a more-or-less static technological world with much slower rates of change is fundamentally misleading for the decision makers who will rely on the AEO or derivative products for shaping their thinking. We need another approach.

[Dave Guarino @allafarce]

I first started advocating for a mandatory soft story earthquake retrofit ordinance for Oakland in 2014.

9 years later, the building is starting to be retrofitted.

Feels good.

Thank you @DanKalb @LibbySchaaf @ABAG_Resilience @HudnutKen @ronlin and so many others.

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

@emilydolhansky As I keep pointing out, and what seems to be getting lost in the noise over and over again, is that there's a lot of space between "no big deal" and "worst case scenario." Lots of harm can happen in between! But it's also important to reserve Big Words for the real Big Ones...

[gettingtoresilience @Get2Resilience]

@StarkKev Any CALFIRE very high fire hazard severity zone in a community where historically the richest residents have lived in the hills...most of the Bay Area and LA metro come to mind. That trend doesn't often play out in the Sierra's.

[gettingtoresilience @Get2Resilience]

I think CA planning is getting closer by adding a number of new requirements to the safety element of the general plan which needs to be consistent with all the other elements. As with any plans, success is reliant on good process and implementation.

[Andrew Rumbach @AndrewRumbach]

What I am reminding myself of this morning: the goal is not to have stand-alone climate and hazards work, but to see everything through a climate and hazards lens.

[Dave Guarino @allafarce]

As we process the devastating 7.8 #earthquake in Turkey, there's something we need to look at:

While the CA Leg/AB 1721 put $250m into the new budget for #softstory retrofits, the most recent Governor's proposal for a budget REMOVED this funding...

https://t.co/vNt3gX4256

[gettingtoresilience @Get2Resilience]

"We should stop building buildings that may not kill us but that we know will have to be torn down after a big earthquake. Sacramento should give us what most of us thought we already had."

[Lallemant Disaster Analytics for Society Lab @ NTU @davidlallemant]

Every single official and planner in high seismic areas NEEDS to read this article by ⁦@DrLucyJones⁩. “If you think the earthquake damage you see in Turkey can’t happen here, think again.” https://t.co/71P4pEeqKA

[Lallemant Disaster Analytics for Society Lab @ NTU @davidlallemant]

Every single official and planner in high seismic areas NEEDS to read this article by ⁦@DrLucyJones⁩. “If you think the earthquake damage you see in Turkey can’t happen here, think again.” https://t.co/71P4pEeqKA

[Tom Frank @ByTomFrank]

Good news: 5,200 homes were removed from North Carolina floodplains through buyouts since 1990s.

Bad news: 59,000 homes were built in NC floodplains.

"We’re adding things to the top of the mountain as we’re trying to climb it," @_miyukihino says.

https://t.co/KfqtkGyaZJ