March 30, 2009 Emergency Management Higher Education Program

Notes of the Day

(1) Flood Cleanup – Not A New Publication But Still Relevant:

Federal Emergency Management Agency. After a Flood: The First Steps Website. Washington, DC: FEMA, March 28, 2006 modification.

Accessed at:

National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (CDC). Storm and Flood Cleanup Website. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NIOSH, September 4, 2008 last update. Accessed at:

(2) Homeland Security Advisory Council Teleconference Meeting Transcript Released:

Homeland Security Advisory Council. Summary of Public Teleconference Held on September 11, 2008. Washington, DC: HSAC, March 25, 2009, 11 pages. Accessed at:

(3) Infection Prevention and Control for Shelters During Disasters:

APIC (Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology). Infection Prevention and Control for Shelters During Disasters. Washington, DC: 2008, 52 pages. At:

(4) National Flood Insurance Program – GAO Letter Report Released:

Government Accountability Office. Information on Proposed Changes to the National Flood Insurance Program. Washington, DC: GAO Letter Report, February 27, 2009, 33 pages. Accessed at:

(5) NORTHCOM in North Dakota:

CNN.com/US. “Red River Reaches Record Level, Floods Fargo with Uncertainty.” March 27, 2009. At:

The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO). “NorthCom will Help With Flooding in North Dakota.” 26 March 2009. At:

(6) Risk Management Review, Spring 2009 – Nest Phase of Extreme Events Project (p. 6):

(7) Social Networks in Flood Fights – and other Hazard and Disaster Situations:

Associated Press. “Fargo Uses Social Networks to Fight Floodwaters.” March 26, 2009. Accessed at:

(8) Washington Times DHS-Related Editorial – On What’s In A Name:

Washington Times (Ed.). “Napolitano Tells It like It Isn’t.” March 29, 2009. Accessed at:

(9) Weapons of Mass Destruction:

Department of the Army. The United States Army Concept Capability Plan for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction for the Future Modular Force, 2015-2024, Version 1.0. Washington, DC: TRADOC Pamphlet 525-7-19, March 25, 2009, 106 pages. Accessed at:

See, also:

(10) This Day in Disaster History – March 30/31, 1933 -- Tornadoes in the South:

The Daily Democrat-Times (Greenville, MS). “Southern Tornado Death Toll Mounts to 68 With 38 Dead in State, 6 in Washington County,” April 1, 1933. Accessed at:

A mad spring storm which for two days battered the South from Texas to Alabama left sixty-eight known dead, hundreds of injured, wreckage and threat of floods in its wake today.

Mississippi suffered the heaviest loss of life with thirty-eight reported killed, Texas counted its dead at twenty, Louisiana, nine, and Arkansas, one. The list mounted steadily as reports trickled in from communities cut off by tangled communication lines and flooded highways and winds moved northeastward.

The storm broke in East Texas Thursday. Then it nicked the southwestern corner of Arkansas and drove full force up the MississippiValley with tornadic winds and a deluge of rain that blew in horizontal sheets.

In Mississippi, Sandersville, in the south, near Laurel, reported fourteen dead, eight children under school age. Seven were killed at Raleigh in Middle Mississippi, and the same number at Harmony, near Meridian. In Washington county up in the Delta six were dead as the storm moved steadily onward and began to diminish into strong winds and heavy rains over Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia.

See, also: Grazulis. Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991. 1993, p. 325.

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B. Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM
Higher Education Program Manager
Emergency Management Institute
National Preparedness Directorate
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Department of Homeland Security
16825 S. Seton, K-011
Emmitsburg, MD 21727

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