As we get ready for the new year, the sources for information on emergency management are a bit thinner with the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) website shuttered during the budget impasse over the border wall with Mexico. It is one of the many impacts that will begin to be felt immediately in the new year as people try to access federal services that are shuttered.
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.