with ?️ Nick Shufro - Deputy Assistant Administrator, Federal Insurance & Mitigation Administration, Resilience, FEMA 
 ? The Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) manages the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and a range of programs designed to mitigate against future losses from all hazards, including floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters.

What we covered:

? How only 9 million insurance policies have been set in the US to protect people from flood risks, and how it's been a slow uptake to achieve that number. 
? How Ben Franklin's advice is still very actual in today's context 
? How the US federal administration set rules to enforce pre-disaster mitigation, even after a disaster has happened. 
?? How funding availability drastically evolved under the current US administration. 
? How Nick's team comes in and meets people on the worst day of their life 
? How it's all about reducing disaster suffering, be it with pre-disaster mitigation or post-disaster remediation
? … and of course, we concluded with the ????? ???? ????????? ?   
      
➡️ Send your warm regards to Nick on LinkedIn; 
➡️ Visit FIMA's Website 
➡️ A big THANK YOU to Sciens Water for enabling this episode!
➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on how Pre-Disaster Mitigation shall be further developed on the website!