Rare opportunity to access an insider view of commercial banking asset valuation and emerging risks. This is a 6-hour workshop over two days, and we really get into some deep and challenging issues. $250 but DM me for a great discount code! www.envirobank.org/page/Managin...

Big Meadows was dammed to form Lake Almanor with Kohm Yah-mah-nee (now called Mount Lassen) in the background, with its first layer of snow for the season.

I'm realizing that I really need to understand the grandfathering provisions for post-catastrophe rebuilding in California. I do not understand why rebuilt homes in Greenville are not built to the WUI code and exactly which elements they were exempted from. Putting this on my homework list.

California insurance town hall this afternoon - just catching it after getting home from inspecting homes for wildfire risks. But not only do I talk about preventing home ignitions, I share the good news that home hardening increases your home's chance of surviving by a whole lot!

Why banks’ credit risk models are blind to climate 18% of banks integrate climate risk into their internal ratings-based models credit risk and climate risk models are built on different logics Unless supervisors adapt, these models will remain blind.. www.thebanker.com/content/1f61...

CA FAIR plan seeks 35.8% rate increase. #climaterisk www.latimes.com/business/sto...

This is 21st Century Fire: Maine is the Nova Scotia of the US: historically, foggy, soggy #wildfire

Wildfire-smoke-related deaths in the US could climb to 70,000 per year by 2050 due to climate change, study finds www.livescience.com/health/virus... #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Heatwave #Wildfire #Particulates #America

How to track disaster spending in your community. grist.org/accountabili... #Disaster #Weather #Climate #Money #Contracts

Terrific investigation by the @houstonchronicle.com finds that 20% of residential properties built since Harvey in greater Houston are in a mapped floodplain, 57,000 in-all. www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...

This is center stage in the ladies room at work, about 6 feet by 8 feet big. I am a RCRA-CERCLA gal, not a NEPA gal, but I venture to say this is harder.

Here’s a great summary of how things are going in the world of forest fire mitigation at scale. I can confirm that reporter Jane Braxton Little did her homework on this one. plumassun.org/2025/09/21/u...

I was invited to provide the entertainment at the annual luncheon for my mom’s service club. I’m working on a short routine that involves the history of the violin and how both my sister’s ex-husband and current husband happened to be right where the Fly Fire started and merged with the Dixie Fire.

I've been monitoring FEMA's processing of disaster declarations after a long pause in the spring. This is the time of year when we start to get an uptick.

Watching: Hurricane Kiko projected to weaken as it passes north of the Hawaiian Islands.

Keeping an eye on: Hurricane Kiko; impacts to the Hawaiian Islands; FEMA's planning and response

Lightning storms in Northern California - my cozy vibes consist of nonstop scanner traffic over the Tahoe, Plumas, and Lassen National Forests while I monitor @weatherwest.bsky.social Daniel Swain’s livestream. And I’m glad I jumped on my bike to get home before things got crazy.

The Los Angeles Fire Human Exposure and Long-Term Health Study continues to share good insights into physical and chemical conditions post LA Fires. Hexavalent Chromium data release aligns with my experience around hazardous waste incineration and ash management. lafirehealth.org/new-la-fire-...

Author Lyndsey Gilpin did a great job with this guide! A fire burned nearly a million acres in my community, and I volunteered to set up a long-term recovery committee as part of the FEMA major disaster declaration. I was new to the entire bewildering process; learned all this from scratch!

#NTSB hearings today are as interesting as ever. But has anyone else noticed the snazzy new NTSB staff shirts being sported by everyone from Chair Jennifer Homendy on down? It definitely gives a very different vibe to the proceedings. Interesting #fashion choice to signal “we are public safety."

Wow—there are reports on Japanese television of at least four whales having washed ashore on the coast of the Chiba prefecture following the earthquake in the western Pacific:

Explaining the difference between a 3-foot tsunami wave and a 3-foot coastal wave is one of the hardest things to explain to island folks. I didn’t truly understand it either until I watched on live TV the tsunami inundating the Japanese coast in 2011. Unstoppable. Inundation. #tsunami

Water levels measured by the buoy at Sand Island, Midway Island, is showing the initial arrival of tsunami waves

Here’s the Midway bouy data link (it’s on the other side of the dateline): www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page...

My brother lives at 1200 feet above sea level in Hilo, just off the Saddle Road, and he finally got home with his kids. He says there are a number of people just parked next to the road camping out, waiting for this tsunami to pass. #tsunami

Maui Mayor Richard Bissen says the county has opened up the temporary road they’ve been using to move debris from the Lahaina debris storage area to help alleviate traffic in central Maui. I like this proactive approach. #tsunami

Big Island Mayor Kimo Alameda has the best quotes by far among all the political and public safety officials during this tsunami. But the residents being interviewed on air are bringing their talk story A-game. #tsunami #evacuation

Honolulu Civil Beat does a great job of covering extreme weather and disaster in Hawai’i. Here’s their tsunami page. www.civilbeat.org/2025/07/tsun...

Tsunami advisory update: revised peak wave heights slightly lower with the latest update as of 8pm, still highest for Crescent City, Port San Luis and less than 1 ft. around the Bay Area. Observed max tsunami heights have been low so far. #CAwx 7/29/2025

Josh Green, Gov of Hawai’i, is explaining that the immediate response from ocean buoys indicated that a wave was coming. But it’s really hard to estimate the size of the waves that will hit the 8 major Hawaiian islands until the waves pass Midway Island, which is over 1000 miles away from Honolulu.

I love Big Island mayor Kimo Alameda saying, hey it’s cool, just take your time and gather your family and make your move. Hilo families still remember the tsunamis during the 20th century, the kupuna who remember those events.

Right now the projections for Hawai’i are that initial waves will be 1 meter but secondary waves could be 2 or more meters. Quite a bit less than what we saw at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant - GE engineers videotaped 30+ meter waves in 2011.

My dad worked in the Hawai’i governor’s office during the 1961 tsunami that impacted Hilo, and I heard a lot about the aftermath from that when I was growing up. I wasn’t alive for that one, but I was living in Tokyo in 2011. #tsunami

I’m having a lot of flashbacks to 2011, those minutes between the earthquake and the tsunami. Checked in with family and some friends, things are pretty good on outer islands but Honolulu…. #tsunami

Whew, glad I'm not keeping track of lightning strikes in NE California today.

And another shocker, again from Milliman. Double yikes!

Get a load of this slide from Milliman. Yikes!

How can we maintain situational awareness during a wildfire? I put together a guide for my local VOAD (voluntary organizations active in disaster) that can easily be adapted for other communities. www.plumasdisaster.org/situational-...

I see that PG&E is starting to use their alerts more strategically. I really appreciate not only the additional insight into why an outage occurred, but also a link to their EPSS page that has been a game changer for quickly cutting off energy to distribution lines in high wildfire risk areas.

I just realized that I've finally converted all my news and streaming subscriptions over to non-authoritarian sources. 🗑️ Washington Post, NY Times, Amazon Prime 🍾 PBS, NPR, Center for Investigative Reporting, local public radio station Capital Public Radio

I am so thankful when a friend in my network writes an analysis of a regulatory development that I haven't had time to even read yet. The California Safer Consumer Products law is geared toward safety rather than being constrained or tied to federal definitions of what is a hazardous chemical.

Good reminder today from Scott Popilek about the degree to which private industry doesn't just rely on NOAA data but absolutely, critically depends on it for inputs to catastrophe models that are critical to the insurance industry. www.rmmagazine.com/articles/art...

Juan Browne recorded @calfire.bsky.social Grass Valley air operations sandbox training, and it’s such a great way to connect what we hear on the scanner to what’s going on visually on the scene of a fire. Great perspective for us local yocals. #CAFire youtu.be/86VT0D3DLDg?...

Which exactly why we should never allow any space program to proceed at the expense of our environment. SpaceX flouting our permitting rules and polluting our wetlands and our oceans and our shorelines is not a fair price for these stupid space fantasies.

NPPTL: National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory. Housed in Pittsburgh, PA and Morgantown, WV. The staff at this center research PPE worn by military personnel, first responders, medical staff, miners, and numerous other industries not to mention the general public.

Quincy California NO KINGS march🪧 🇺🇲 #june14th #indivisible #nokingsday #flagday #quincy #california

Hey y'all, we need a WatchDuty style app for situational awareness about ICE and protests. Anyone working on something like that?

This morning I was having thoughts about the market and how my weird new life is starting to feel normal, and I see that M Gessen captured my subsequent deep sense of foreboding very well in this op-ed (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

Exposure to climate risk could affect your ability to get a mortgage + insurance when/if you go to buy a new home, a new report shows. It shows that climate risk is a credit risk for lenders, and a growing one at that. www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/c...