Does anyone know if NOAA/NWS is conducting a service assessment/report of the 2025 Hill Country floods?

If so - anyone know the status?

I PASSED MY COMP EXAM! 🥳🥳🥳

And I don't have to do corrections or an oral follow-up exam! 🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤

Next step- Doctoral dissertation proposal! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 I can't wait to study weather literacy in emergency management. ☺️

Confirmation Hearing: Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) Testifies to be DHS Secretary YouTube video by C-SPAN

FEMA News: Yesterday, Sen Mullin testified at confirmation hearing for DHS secretary as the nominee.

Recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMVL...

❤️🤍💙🇺🇲

Got some time with Alert Authority this month, and we chatted:

-Building Agency Social from scratch
-Interacting with community
-Being visible to community as a local EM
-Challenges of building alert programs.

If you aren't visible, you don't exist.
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Harris County OEM internship:

Took the first EM webinar with SPC today on their new intensity products.

We will see how it goes.

Give thanks to whole community partnerships who truly make disaster resilience, response, and recovery possible!

Emergency managers couldn't do it without them!
❤️🌍 #CommunityIsKey

YESSSSS!

WRECK EM TECH! Excited to see the TTU West Texas Mesonet expand into my county - AND a BRAND... NEW... RADAR!

Link: www.fredericksburgstandard.com/2026/02/11/t...

Happy Valentine’s Day. ☺️

A drone image of a volcano erupting. The plume of white gasses above the vent forms a heart-like shape. A red heart is drawn around them.

Happy Valentine's Day.

COLUMN: When Emergency Management Experience Walks Out the Door - HSToday Emergency management is, at its heart, a profession obsessed with the future.

It would be great if we could get folks to do a program exit interview, but include all of their past history, knowledge, and a program summary.

A key aspect of any program is having a process for any sort of turnover. Good to have for an EM program!

www.hstoday.us/subject-matt...

Thankful for Twin Cities Meteorological Society AMS/NWA Chapter for inviting me to host a virtual presentation to chat more about emergency management and how weather plays a vital role! ❤️

THANK YOU FOR THE STICKERS! 🤩

Have you heard of PRACADEMIC AFFAIRS?!?!
This is so excited. I am excited to read and maybe shoot to push for some publications.

I can't speak on the quality yet - but we need more journals like this! LOVE THIS! www.hstoday.us/pracademics/

This week in emergency management:

2 brushfires, our first after action review of the year, and hosted the first TDEM Public Officials class today for many officials who haven't had it yet! ❤️

When you find it, it makes you never want to stop pursuing a solution ❤️
And never wanting to stop talking about the need to fix it ❤️

This week in EM:

Flood workshop, EMAP assessor training, WX in EM webinar presentation, alert system testing and work, our monthly AMS EM committee meeting, and more!

Flood risk is changing faster than our maps. 🌊 State EM agencies need decision-ready intelligence—not just static visuals. Join NEMA's EMpowerment webinar to learn how high-resolution flood data and modeling can support prep, response decisions statewide. zurl.co/D0S4e

Happy #NationalWeatherpersonsDay!

Today, we celebrate all the members who make up our diverse membership - students, emergency management, retirees, broadcasters, government, military, academia, and private sector meteorologists!

"FEMA is a last resort."
-When describing a need for local to build capabilities and readiness.
#DisastersStartLocal

Visited Kerr County CERT today to observe before I Kickstart my own City/County team.

I am ready to C E R T AGAIN!!!

THRILLED TO BE OFFICIALLY STORM READY! 🥳🥳🥳

Gillespie County/Fredericksburg is the first locality in the Texas Hill Country to receive the designation from our good friends at NWS! 🥳🥳🥳 #WeAre

This was a goal of mine in the first 3 months! #BeAForce

#AMS2026 is different this year (and I am sad to not be there in person!)

But today we celebrate the FIRST EVER EM and Disaster Symposium track at AMS! Session 1 is below.'

This year, I've seen more EMs present and attend! We are combining the worlds of meteorology with EM!

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” #AMS2026

This should be a what of or RON style discussion where we come away with a white paper.

Better predictions = earlier warnings & healthier communities.

Learn more at #AMS2026! #Wildfire #AI #ClimateScience

I think the question is - the how.

MORE STUDENT PRESENTERS!

If you are a student, please submit! We want to hear your work!

Good grief: According to research from Brenda Philips, info in flash flood warnings don’t necessarily influence people’s response and reaction during a flood. It’s their immediate situation and circumstance and the pre-event warning information. This is incredibly challenging. #AMS2026