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By Michelle R. Matisons
 As 2018 kicked off with most of the East Coast enveloped in freezing temperatures, news about the West Coast's fires provides some reprieve as Southern California's Thomas Fire is contained. However, new concerns of flash flooding and mudslides replace fires as the primary threat. Fires allow residents to prepare to some degree, but floods can happen quicker and cause massive damage. With up to six inches of rain in the forecast, massive debris flow is likely in the upcoming days.
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The Washington Post
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria combined with devastating Western wildfires and other natural catastrophes to make 2017 the most expensive year on record for disasters in the United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported.
The disasters caused $306 billion in total damage in 2017, with 16 events that caused more than $1 billion in damage each. The bulk of the damage, at $265 billion, came from hurricanes in particular.
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USA Today
It was not until 1970 that Congress, under President Richard Nixon, passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act. There were 14,000 workplace fatalities that year. As part of the act, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, was established to set and enforce safety standards in the workplace. Since then, standards have improved and workplace fatalities have declined to less than 5,200 in 2016. Still, some jobs remain far more dangerous than others.
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Route Fifty
California’s rainy season last year may have replenished reservoirs in most parts of the state after a long, crippling drought, but the precipitation largely bypassed an area northwest of Los Angeles, in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Santa Barbara is now in its seventh year of drought and there are worries that similar conditions will return elsewhere in the Golden State.
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Governing
The specter of Oso 2014 can't help but loom in the thoughts of those dealing with the potential slide here at Rattlesnake Ridge. Most of them work in the fruit industry here -- picking apples in the orchards, pruning the trees, packing in the warehouses.
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Domestic Preparedness
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) announced that the Center will resume using nerve agents and biologicals in some of its hazardous materials training courses on Jan. 11.
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By Mark S. Miller
 Scholars have written numerous articles on leadership. Many of these articles center on the traits of a leader, actions or responses of a leader or even why some consider one individual a great leader over another. Was it their time in history — being in the right place at the right time? Was it their extensive training, or lack thereof, that enabled them to persevere through the challenges they faced? Or was it plain old "good luck" that helped them through?
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University College London via Phys.org
Mapping common pathways along which the effects of natural and man-made disasters travel allows more flexible and resilient responses in the future, according to UCL researchers. Naturally occurring extreme space weather events or man-made cyber security attacks affect critical infrastructure through shared points of vulnerability, causing disasters to cascade into scenarios that threaten life and the global economy.
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University of Minnesota
Armed with 1940s-vintage flu vaccine technology and supported by only anemic funding for developing truly revolutionary vaccines, the world is woefully unprepared for the next influenza pandemic, and the Trump administration is ignoring the problem, two experts wrote in a New York Times op-ed piece yesterday.
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