From June 6-10, FEMA's National Hurricane Program will host a five-day HURREVAC training for emergency managers. Each day, sessions will start at 2:00 p.m. EDT and run 60–90 minutes. The webinars will cover a specific theme introduced by guest speakers from FEMA, NOAA National Hurricane Center, or the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. Webinar topics include:

• Introduction to HURREVAC and Overview of the National Hurricane Program: June 6.
• Wind Forecast Features: June 7.
• Evacuation Timing Features: June 8.
• Storm Surge and Other Water Hazards: June 9.
• Exercise Tools and Applying HURREVAC: June 10.

HURREVAC is a free web-based decision-support tool that assists emergency managers by providing information and tools to inform hurricane response decisions in advance of a threatening storm. Interested emergency managers can register now for this annual HURREVAC webinar series.

Agnes 50^th Anniversary Virtual Seminar Series 
FEMA Region 3 and Silver Jackets partners are presenting a series of virtual seminars as we approach the 50^th anniversary of Hurricane Agnes. In June 1972, Agnes spread destruction across 12 states, including major flooding that still holds records to this day across our region. Tragically, more than 120 people lost their lives to Agnes and the storm caused $3.1 billion in damage.   

Agnes changes the way the United States deals with tropical cyclones. While we have had our share of storms more recently, the stories of Agnes from 50 years ago still resonate and can help us be better prepared for the threats of the future. With climate change, extreme weather is becoming more common, and lessons learned after events like Agnes will be even more valuable. 

For more information on the impacts of Agnes, visit the Agnes 50^th Anniversary webpage. 

Learning from Disaster: The Environmental Impacts and Lessons of Hurricane Agnes 

Wednesday May 18, 12:00pm - 1:00pm  
Hosted by the Chesapeake Research Consortium 
Register at https://chesapeake.org/crc-roundtable/  

Hurricane Agnes was a formative event in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The scale of the devastation was unparalleled and caused the Bay community to take a long look at business as usual and determine how we could better prepare for extreme events. The Chesapeake Research Consortium was born out of this desire to understand the environmental impacts and build resilience after Agnes. We've had 50 years since the storm shifted the conversation - what have we learned about the Bay watershed and responding to the environmental impacts of intense storms? 

Moderators: 

• Denice Wardrop, Executive Director, Chesapeake Research Consortium 
• Tom Horton, Longtime Chesapeake Bay Writer, Environmental Studies Professor at Salisbury University 

Speakers: 

• Andrew Dehoff, Executive Director, Susquehanna River Basin Commission 
• Elizabeth Andrews, Professor of the Practice and Director, Virginia Coastal Policy Center, William& Mary Law School 

Mitigation Coffee Breaks
May 18, 2022 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET

The time to plan for future conditions is now. In this training, participants will learn about the four factors that FEMA includes in ‘future conditions’: climate change, population change, demographic change, and land use/development change and how to integrate them into a Hazard Mitigation Plan. This webinar will highlight examples of how future conditions can impact risk assessment and the development of effective mitigation strategies in order to respond to a changing world. Register here.