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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

When people get upset with younger generations for posting videos in the middle of an emergency/ disaster I think about photos like this. You might not like it, but documenting your disaster experience is not unique to one generation -- we've always done it to the extent that technology allows.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Starting to worry about what’s going to happen when we don’t have our emotional support astronauts to go check in on every day.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

There is sadly an extreme lack of training available for wildland fire and emergency management workers who want to create graphics for outreach & education, so last year I made a 25 page guide to design basics for people in those fields! It also goes into why good graphics matter. Free to download!

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Graphics Creation Guide for Non-Artists | Katy L. Wood

A guide for emergency managers, wildland fire personnel, and others on how to create outreach art and graphics even without an art background.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Recently I was struck by a visual of wildland fire mitigation but make it Chutes & Ladders. It seemed like a potentially good educational aid, so I decided to make a poster! You can download the poster for free, including a playable version, from my payhip: payhip.com/KatyLWood. #WildlandFire

A poster that looks like a game board with 49 numbered squares. On the squares is an isometric forested neighborhood. There are a variety of houses along several streets, surrounded by various trees. Some of the houses are connected by yellow fences that go across multiple squares. There are also wind gusts that go across multiple squares. The game is half played with four pieces that look like little fires having left a blackened trail across the board. At the top of the poster and above the board is the heading, "Don't play games with mitigation." Below the board is the game title "Winds & Embers" along with the rules of the game, which are the same rules as "Chutes & Ladders." Below that is a short blurb about wildland fire mitigation and why it is important. There is also an illustration of a game spinner on the bottom right of the poster. Everything is in a flat, simple style.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

My new @kickstarter.com campaign has launched! If you're an author with ADHD, this one's for you: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat... This plotting tool is designed to be flexible, tactile, and adaptable to your writing style.

A mockup of a box of Novel Navigation Notecards on a desk. The cards are coming out of the brown box to show each of the card types, all in pastel colors. To the right are the words "Novel Navigation Notecards." Below that is a box with the words "A writing tool by a neurodiverse author for neurodiverse authors."

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Holy shit...

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The TikTok algorithm knows me well enough to suggest lots of disaster videos, but it does not understand disaster videos well enough not to suggest I save them as places I want to travel. Like, yes, this was posted from a very pretty country, but in this video it is in fact underwater.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Pssst! All my books are 15% off in my shop right now, including special editions! And you can get free shipping on orders over $25 with code "WINTER25" too! (Sadly only shipping within the US right now due all the nonsense, but ebooks are available everywhere!) www.aspenandcopper.com/shop

A graphic featuring a mockup of the paperback of the novel "Camp Daze" on the left side, and text about the novel on the right side, with three queer pride flags below the text. The first flag is the queer pride flag, the second is half the aromantic flag and half the asexual flag, and the third is the lesbian flag. The text reads as follows:
Camp Daze
Adult | Survival | Summer Camp
A helpful take on the apocalypse.
Conifer was raised to survive the end of the world, any end of the world. Except this one.
When the bombs drop, she finds herself stranded in the mountains with over a hundred young campers and only a handful of other young counselors to help her.

A graphic featuring a mockup of the paperback of the novel "Lie Down in the Ashes" on the left side, and text about the novel on the right side, with three queer pride flags below the text. The first flag is the queer pride flag, the second is the trans flag, and the third is the lesbian flag. The text reads as follows:
Lie Down in the Ashes
Young Adult | Survival | Thriller
Short Book | Epistolary
Five teens go out for one last camping trip before school starts, only for one of them to accidentally start a wildfire that risks all of their lives, and the lives of many others. Their only hope is an old friend who dropped out of school to work at the local mine, in a truck he stole.

A graphic featuring a mockup of the paperback of the novel "Poison in the Blood" on the left side, and text about the novel on the right side, with three queer pride flags below the text. The first flag is the queer pride flag, the second is the asexual flag, and the third is the bisexual flag. The text reads as follows:
Poison in the Blood
Adult | Fantasy | Adventure
Post-Post Apoc. | Characters you love to hate
Ten years ago, Dustin Lockwood's little sister Shae went missing as their family fled across the desolate abandoned portions of North America to escape the coven that wanted them dead. He would do anything to find her, even now.
Shae Lockwood, living it up as a rare human actress, would do anything not to be found.

A graphic featuring a mockup of the paperback of the novel "The Pits" on the left side, and text about the novel on the right side, with three queer pride flags below the text. The first flag is the queer pride flag, the second is the gender fluid flag, and the third is the lesbian flag. The text reads as follows:
The Pits
Adult | Adventure | Fantasy
Weird Western | Illustrated
When Clarabella's girlfriend goes missing, she seeks out the only person who might be able to help: her outlaw older sibling Royal, who she hasn't seen in years.
Royal knows more about the strange magic of their world than anyone. More than they should. More than the magic wants them to know.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I’m surprised the IAEM conference hasn’t broken out in cheers. 🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

👇👇

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

This is very, uh, not great. Just fyi. Especially for those of us in the direct path of a major tsunami from Alaska. 🙃

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🧵 on how the dismantling of USAID may affect the US search and rescue teams deployed to Jamaica.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

🚨👇🌊

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Now is a good time to call your members of Congress & tell them the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (under NOAA) needs to be funded. Without it, communities will face extreme funding cuts, have their ability to prepare for events like this one (and much worse) deeply affected.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Please enjoy thirty seconds of a moose calf having EXTREME beef with my wishing well.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Thrilled to see @insideclimatenews.org reporting on the findings of the new Argonne survey of local and state emergency management capacity. This is a great summary. insideclimatenews.org/news/2807202...

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As Trump Shrinks FEMA, State and Local Emergency Managers Say They’re Barely Getting By - Inside Climate News

In a government survey, state and local officials said they were overworked, underpaid and underappreciated.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

We’ve really gotta do more modern studies on wildfire prevention efforts, because a good majority of the literature is from the 60s and 70s. (And don’t even get me started on Smokey Bear…)

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I think this is obvious but I just want to highlight it in case it isn’t. Taking 72 hours for Noem to personally approve search and rescue teams can be a literal death sentence. www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...

It took more than 72 hours after the flooding for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Bluesky finally has notifications? DELIGHTFUL. Maybe it can start to finally fully take the place of Twitter in disaster communications. Just need to get more official accounts on here.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

New illustration! :D So happy with this one. And I'm doing a special edition print run to fund a Spanish translation of my Emergency Evacuation Poster! Preorder: www.aspenandcopper.com/product-page... See the evac poster: www.katy-l-wood.com/posters?pgid... #Wildfire #Illustration

A digital illustration of three wildland firefighters watching a distant wildfire in the mountains at sunset. The fire is burning in a forest and putting up a thick, dark column of smoke. Everything is lit in warm, orange sunset light. The person in the foreground is sitting next to a chainsaw and among wildflowers. The other two figures are in the midground.

A detail shot of the foreground figure. She has her back to the camera and she is sitting with one knee pulled up, her arm draped over it. Next to her legs is a chainsaw.

A detail shot of the body of the chainsaw and some of the flowers.

A detail shot of the second midground figure, her back to the camera as she stares out at the fire, which is visible in the distance just above her head. The woman is sitting and leaning back on her hands.

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WIRED @wired.com · 21/05/2025

SCOOP: Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned.

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FEMA Has Canceled Its Four-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season

Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another in place.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/05/2025

In St. Louis, the sirens to warn people of a tornado threat were not activated by the City Emergency Management Agency before a deadly tornado hit on Friday, and a backup to activate the mechanism that is operated by the Fire Department was broken.

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Warning Sirens Were Silent Ahead of Deadly Tornado in St. Louis, City Says

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

*waves in emergency management policy*

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 22/04/2025

I honestly hadn't had this realization, despite saying in virtually every public talk, interview, and class lecture about how moving around outside a car will "radicalize" you, and how electeds and upper management need to do it. But we are going the opposite way in transportation data and analysis.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Titanic kids are an eternal phenomenon. The ship calls us from across time and space. You don't choose to be obsessed with the Titanic - the Titanic chooses you.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The four main characters from my book, THE PITS, a weird western. They're a fun bunch. #OriginalArt

A digital pen & ink illustration featuring a portrait of a young white woman running and looking behind herself in fear, her eyes wide. Her hair is braided, the braid trailing behind her. The background is a simple gray watercolor wash.

A digital pen & ink illustration featuring a portrait of a young black woman holding a revolver and looking off the left side of the image. She has thin dreadlocks capped with bullet casings. She is wearing a thick coat. The background is a simple gray watercolor wash.

A digital pen & ink illustration featuring a portrait of a young white person of indeterminate gender. Their back is to the viewer and their arm outstretched to fire an intricately engraved revolver off the right side of the image. They are wearing a black duster and a black cowboy hat with a silver rim on the brim, the brim only turned up on one side. The background is a simple gray watercolor wash.

A digital pen & ink illustration featuring a portrait of a young white man with his arms crossed and one eyebrow raised high. He is strongly built with curly hair down to his chest and a curly beard that tapers to a point at about his collarbone. His mustache is curled up at the ends. The background is a simple gray watercolor wash.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

My book, THE PITS, has an illustration in every chapter. This is the one from the first chapter, and it is one of my favorites. I used the Rusty Nib brush set in Procreate and it is the brush set of my DREAMS. The sort of inking set I'd been looking for FOREVER. #DigitalArt

A digital illustration done in a pen and ink style. A group of people are sitting in a dusty, run down corner of a bar, everything a bit scuffed and faded. On the left are two people cut off by the edge of the frame, only their legs visible as they sit on a couch. To their right is a man on a different couch, one foot up on a coffee table covered in an abandoned poker game and some bottles and glasses. He is talking with a woman sat at a nearby table with another man. On the right side is another woman, sitting alone.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Another illustration from my book, THE PITS. I had a lot of fun coming up with Little Mountain's signs for the story she's telling. Their group uses a very weird mix of different types of sign language, so I had a lot of freedom with the signs. #OriginalArt

A digital pen and ink style illustration of four people eating a meal while sitting on a patch of dirt on the prairie, short grasses surrounding them and thin clouds hanging overhead. The woman on the right is a Ute (Native American) woman and is using sign language to tell a story. To her right is a young white woman, also dicussing the story. Her clothing has some dried blood stains on it. To her right is another person looking vaguely contemplative of what's being discussed. The fourth person, a white man, is listening to the other three.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Preachers are a group of characters from my novel, THE PITS. They are made up (according to the myths) of scorned women who now guard the mysterious, magical portions of the world. #DigitalArt

A pen and ink style digital illustration of three women against a starry backdrop. The women on the right and left are nude save for a thin veil that covers them from head to toe, tied around their necks and waists to hold it in place. The woman in the center is nude, save for a strange mass of swirling, ink like substance roiling around her body. All of them have no irises or pupils, just scleras, but they all still look directly at the viewer.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

A mysterious little coyote from my book, THE PITS. He eats light. #OriginalArt

A pen and ink style digital illustration of a coyote sitting with its mouth wide open and eyes glowing. A starscape swirls out of its open mouth.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I did this illustration, hated it, started over, loved it, accidentally deleted the file, and had to do it all from scratch again. Worth it, though. Another one from my book, THE PITS. #OriginalArt

A digital pen and ink style illustration of two women rappelling down a cliff with just ropes and no modern equipment. The viewer is looking down at them from above as one falls, the snapped rope visible at the top of the image. The other woman is reaching out to try and catch her. There are small, trinket items scattered all over the cliff face, including a necklace with a heart charm.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Another illustration from my book, THE PITS. This one is from one of my favorite scenes, and the location is inspired by the giant crystal cave in Mexico that is so hot it will kill you if you go in without special gear. #OriginalArt

A digital pen and ink style illustration of a cave full of giant, glowing crystals that are all tangled together as they criss-cross the cavern. In the foreground, their backs to the viewer, stand four people on a stone ledge, looking out at the crystals (that dwarf them) with awe.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I now have an easy order form on my website if you would like to license use of/order my disaster posters! Been getting a few inquiries lately, so I wanted to make it simple. They're great for community events, community displays, fire/police/emergency, etc.! www.katy-l-wood.com/posters

An informational poster titled "Evacuation Prep" which breaks down different levels of evacuation preparedness in case of an emergency, depending upon how much time you have.

An informational poster titled "Stay Prepared" showing a diagram of a way to organize all your preparedness supplies and important mementos in an easy, aesthetic way in case of an emergency.

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The ENTER HERE kickstarter has hit the 75% mark! We're just ahead of schedule! Now is a great time to support an anthology of marginalized authors. 💙📚 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ent...

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Update 5: We hit the 75% mark thanks to you! · Enter Here: An Anthology of Portals

We have crossed the 75% mark! We are so close to our fundraising goal, and it's all thanks to you, amazing backers. As a thank you for getting across the 3/4 line, here's the final story teaser from o...

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 06/04/2025

Please read and share. Most people have never heard of NIOSH (the National Institute for Occuptional Safety and Health), but the work they do is critically important for our essential workers and frontline safety professionals. www.firerescue1.com/niosh/soundi...

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Sounding the 5th alarm: We must save firefighter health research

Vital firefighter-focused programs are coming to a screeching halt as a result of the recent NIOSH layoffs, undoing thousands of hours of work by dedicated researchers

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Everytime someone brings this up and says "but isn't this how it should be/wouldn't this be better" I go into a rage state of which my Italian ancestors would be proud.

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I was doing research for a different project the other day, and I realized that wildland firefighters never get fun children's museum exhibits like structure firefighters do. Since I've got a background in wildland fire AND museum work, I figured I'd design one! #Wildfire #MuseumExhibit

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Wildland Firefighters Deserve Fun Children's Museum Exhibits Too!

A post exploring a potential design for a children's museum exhibit based on wildland firefighting.

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Wildland Firefighters Deserve Fun Children's Museum Exhibits Too!

A post exploring a potential design for a children's museum exhibit based on wildland firefighting.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This should be THE story for US coverage of the earthquake.

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Andrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This piece has better details on the nature of the conversations…effectively, dramatically shrink FEMAs role re: mitigation and recovery. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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Noem outlined major restructuring of FEMA in private meeting

The Homeland Security secretary expressed support for eliminating long-term disaster recovery efforts under the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It's the time of year when I see articles telling folks to put pet fur out for bird nesting. The Cornell ornithology lab does not recommend this! Flea/tick treatments & shampoos can be toxic, long fur can entangle chicks, etc. There are much better alternatives: www.allaboutbirds.org/news/providi...

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Providing Nest Material for Birds: Dos & Don'ts

Rufous Hummingbird by Penny Hall/Birdshare. Most birds build some kind of structure to contain their eggs and nestlings. A bird's nest may be as simple as a nighthawk's or Killdeer's depression on ...

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