Village Voices - We don't write papers, we build scrapbooks

For municipal leaders and community organizers across the state, 2019 flooding presented a host of challenges that tested the capabilities of their emergency response systems and the plans that support them. According to the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, this was the fifth consecutive year that the U.S. experienced ten or more extreme weather events where the economic impact of each exceeded 1 billion dollars.

With a disproportionate number of those events impacting the Midwest region, it seems clear that time spent preparing for weather-related disasters improves a...