Disaster Response is on the Verge of Failure

Matthew Woodall
10 min readAug 21, 2020

Now is the time to transition to a more stable model

Photo by John Middelkoop on Unsplash

Last week, a storm caused $4 billion (USD) in damages in one U.S. state alone, and nobody talked about it.

Tens of thousands of people were without power for over a week, and still nobody talked about it.

This storm moved 55mph (100 km/h) and had winds equivalent to a Category Two…

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