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Outages are not fun.  Have you ever been the last one picked when choosing up sides for a team?  Or the last in line to get tickets for the new blockbuster movie or playoff game?  Or the last in [...]

How do you approach your relationships with your regulators? Are they best kept at a distance? Do you see them as an unnecessary nuisance? As adversaries? Or as not-so-silent business partners? [...]

As we head into peak storm season for many companies, this is a great time to think about how you might be able to supplement your day to day resources with an often overlooked pool of [...]

Warning: Some of the following text was copied directly from the lead paragraphs on actual electric utility “Outage Information” websites. Seek and find the real [...]

Think being overprepared is always going to be well-received?  Well, check out this true story: The forecasters were predicting a major snow storm, two to three feet of snow, heavy winds, [...]

In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, public and private officials, as well as the media have gone to great lengths to describe how unprecedented the weather conditions were. Yes, for a good [...]

One of the things we do here at Emergency Preparedness Partnerships is to write scenarios for disaster drills, to pressure-test preparedness and emergency response plans. Sometimes, we take a [...]

Whether we’re talking restoration communications or something else, the complaint is universal, applicable to just about any situation where people work together on a process or task but [...]

Rampant wildfires swept through the Southwest. Then millions of people from the Midwest to the Atlantic learned the word Derecho the hard way. Along came Superstorm Sandy, the Nor’iccane or [...]

We’ve used a lot of analogies in the past to try to help people understand and appreciate how sound emergency planning and the Incident Command System should work. Sports analogies have [...]