Recovery

County won't have to depend on cellphones and text messages for communication.

'Everyone thought the electric current was going to run through the water. Cars were floating in the street from the flooding … it was insane.'

FBI Director James Comey warned that encryption poses a monumental threat to public safety, as it renders court-approved search warrants generally useless.

Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett said last week the city faces a ;serious risk' that federal money for flood protection won’t come.

To earn the designation, the university had to meet seven criteria involving preparation to respond to severe weather conditions and weather emergencies.

Ten years from now, the worlds of public safety and emergency management will look like what’s on TV today.

Schumer worked with the city to convince FEMA of the importance of repairing the crumbling seawall. Tropical Storm Irene dealt a major blow to the wall in August 2011.

Plan to annex the city into a county fire protection district might be blocked.

'This is an opportunity to connect people to the right resource at the right time, so that they can get whatever services they might need.'

'We are simulating a wind event where we had people and animals displaced. Some have been involved in contaminated water.'

The ordinance replaces the city’s now-obsolete civil defense ordinance, which was written in the 1950s or ’60s.

The lack of information raises questions about water quality reports issued by utilities.

The ground isn’t expected to actually shake this spring. But nearly 6,000 emergency and military personnel will pretend it is during a four-day exercise to test response to a seismic event that will dwarf the 2001 Nisqually quake: A Cascadia megaquake and tsunami.

The book’s anticipated use might be as a classroom text for students pursuing degrees in emergency management, it also has broad application for practicing emergency managers at the local, state and federal levels.

The findings, summarized in a report published this week, join a growing body of research about the vulnerabilities in medical devices and health-care systems.