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Jay Roorbach, PhD

@jarthree.bsky.social
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East Aurora, NY Emergency Manager, Higher Ed Faculty, Dad, Cyclist. Go Bills

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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Let them win to keep Tua and Mike Mc around for a while longer?
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
DOGE - 2 minutes for cross checking
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Whatever the money line is on total FEMA Admins during this administration, I'll take the over. 🤦
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Go run FEMA and assess its viability. OK, FEMA should not be eliminated. You're fired, wrong answer. What a joke....
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Thanks in advance to our current administration. From Western NY.🤦❄️
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Cutting pre disaster programming will make disasters worse. Just a reminder that there are no "natural" disasters. The real disaster is caused by human actions or lack of action, even policy.
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Ignorance. Also referring to FEMA as a "disaster relief agency."
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Classes are turning into current events studies...
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Fundamental changes forthcoming...goodbye "all hazards approach"
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Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We have started teaching the processes and the science. Instead of "the plan" or doctrine, break down the methodology for strategies for infrastructure protection or other missions. The responsibility and ethics still exist even if gov abandons them.
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Rotation of styles plus Scotch Eggs too
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
That's better than my experience of a slew of requests for extension on the due date...sigh
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Who will head resilience agencies? May be a way to break out of the ex first responder double dip cycle running EM. (Trying to find positive in everything going on, it's hard)
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Make FEMA Grant Again
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Typical to have at least 4 fiscal years of funding active at once
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
As a former EM practitioner, waiting to respond was the hardest habit to break. I still shoot replies from mobile on weekends from muscle memory...
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Let's start using their terms and names to describe disasters...I wonder if a tabletop exercise where Hurricane Donald destroyed our Capital region would get flagged?
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
www.fema.gov/about/office... Nobody listed and updated Jan 24...
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National Advisory Council Members
Individuals of FEMA's National Advisory Council.
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Let's hold our own symposium!
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
At least acknowledge risk even if you plan to accept it without action.
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
We are a week into the semester. Good experience aiming for moving targets I guess.
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Will make EM curriculum development interesting....
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Philadelphia Eagles @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Go Birds.
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
In other (good) news, my son has committed to study Sports Management and play D3 volleyball at Hartwick College.
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Sigh as I upload my crisis communications course for the Spring semester. I'm going to need my students to really meet the critical thinking learning objectives...
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
If it is the large chain based in Seattle, check out their EOP...it's actually impressive
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Practitioners do the same thing for resume fodder, unfortunately
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Greetings from Western NY! 2+ feet overnight
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Check out Thunder Island Roasters. Indigenous tribe in NY sources beans from tribes in S. America and roasts on Long Island.
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
What if our society didn't have an addiction to instant information (and misinformation)?
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Here are 10,000 brutal words on how Project 2025’s changes to FEMA would create a near-term future in which death tolls increase, more people become homeless & the future of entire communities is threatened. It would be a bloodbath. We must stop them. #GreySky www.disaster-ology.com/blog/2024/12...
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Project 2025 & Emergency Management: Direct Impacts to FEMA — Disasterology
If we have not met, here are my credentials: I have been involved with disaster work for nearly 20 years beginning with the recovery of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and the levee failure. I wor...
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This is an excellent initiative. Too bad something like this will never exist in the US... www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n....
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Spain introduces paid climate leave after deadly floods
Government approves up to four days of paid leave so workers can avoid travelling during weather emergencies
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Alerts from NWS Buffalo NY (UNOFFICIAL) @buf.nws-bot.us · 28/11/2024
BUF issues Area Forecast Discussion (AFD) at Nov 28, 4:12 PM EST ...LONG DURATION, HIGH IMPACT LAKE EFFECT SNOW TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND... via IEMbot Additional Details Here.
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
#GreySky... sigh
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Better than the traditional "victims" that was used for years?
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If someone were born on Nov 18 in Japan at 3:15 am and they now live in NY, are they allowed to celebrate on Nov 17 at 3:15 pm? Asking for a friend.
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Low 50s
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Anybody find Bette Midler here? She was one of my favorite follows on the other platform (I feel like we should treat it like Voldemort and not speak it's name)
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The resolution of this fight on Netflix is the same as watching Mike box in 1987...
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The emergency management/ disaster community on Blue Sky is growing!! 😭😭😭 This website might actually work out. I'm adding people to the starter pack as I see them. We're using #GreySky for EM-related content. go.bsky.app/DsHYNgg
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Philadelphia Eagles @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
sWeet dreams 😴
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Or PhatGPT for another generation...
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
With P25 cutting the US Dept of Ed, what will happen to the very valuable REMS-TA programs and resources? #greysky
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
The best thing about attending DOD schools was traveling for athletics!
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
So AI defined a "blue sky day" as a non-disaster period. The opposite is a "grey sky day." In emergency management terms, this app is appropriately named so that makes X the opposite?
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
That was my first search too. How do we get it trending here?
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Jay Roorbach, PhD @jarthree.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Since I'm designing a class to study the disaster film genre, I will list some I just recently discovered: Deluge (1933) The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) The Hurricane (1937) Krakatoa: East of Java (1968) The Big Bus (1976) Airport (1970) Avalanche (1978)
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