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Oceanport, New Jersey Mayor Michael Mahon cuts a ribbon celebrating borough employees' service to the community during Superstorm Sandy. May 2013

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Bemidji Pioneer – Bemidji Mayor Jorge Prince receives leadership award, shares it with the community

KAXE- 91.7 – Bemidji Mayor Accepts Disaster Leadership Award for Disaster Response

Lakeland PBS – Bemidji Mayor Given National Leadership Award for 2025 Storm Response Efforts

The Acadiana Advocate – Louisiana mayor of “America’s Most Weather-Battered City” defends FEMA’s assistance

The Paducah Sun – Mayfield Mayor Receives Disaster Leadership Award

KFVS-TV – Mayfield Mayor Kathy O’Nan Honored for Tornado Recovery Leadership

WCBI-TV – Leaders Gather in Louisville to Share Storm Recovery Ideas

Tuscaloosa Thread – Mayor Walt Maddox Receives Nationwide Disaster Leadership Award at State Leadership Conference

BGE – Seventy-three Local Nonprofits Now Able to Purchase Vital Equipment and Programs Thanks to $270,000 in BGE Emergency Response and Safety Grants

Sun Herald – Near Death, Former Mayor Longo Brushed Off His Pain. He was Worried About Something Bigger

KCRG-TV – Mississippi Mayor Visits Marshalltown to Offer Disaster Advice

Time-Republican – Mississippi City Leaders Visit Marshalltown

Daily Journal – Tupelo Leaders to Offer Tornado Recovery Advice

Hattiesburg American – CNN Reporter Saw Katrina First-Hand & Now Leads Others Through Disaster Response

Sun Herald — Lessons from Katrina

NJ.com — Mayor of Katrina-Ravaged Town in Sea Bright to Advise on Sandy Recovery

NJ.com — Belmar Mayor Learns Post-Sandy Recovery Lessons on Gulf Coast

"It's a great idea. The lessons learned and experiences gained through a disaster are so helpful to instruct or guide people. It's just so valuable that experience, and so helpful. There's an art to this."

Mayor Joe Riley / Charleston, SC
"I would love to have had someone saying 'for the next 3 weeks here's what you need to focus on'. That would have really helped me. There really wasn't a lot of information passed on to us about what was coming in the weeks and months ahead. We did our best to anticipate a lot of issues."

Mayor Walter Maddox / Tuscaloosa, AL
"A website would be really helpful. The ability to link to somebody, talk to somebody in a city of 10,000 or 300,000. There is just some consolation to hearing affirmation. Truthfully, the emotional support means a lot."

Mayor Ted Ellis / Bluffton, IN / Former Pres., National League of Cities
"There's a lot of people sit back and say, 'Oh my God! What am I going to do?' At times, you just need someone to talk to about what you need to be doing next."

Mayor Gregg Kennedy / Smithville, MS
"You're going to get the first call. So you'd better have some answers. You have five minutes! You need to know what you're going to do."

Mayor Harry Lewis / Rayville, LA
"If we keep educating folks - however it needs to be done - but if we can keep educating and letting them know what we know now and wished we had known back then, I think we'll all be better off."

Mayor Eddie Favre / Bay St. Louis, MS
"I think it's very important. It gives us an opportunity to take lessons learned and mistakes made and pass them forward and help people make the right decisions and keep from making the wrong ones."

Mayor Brent Warr / Gulfport, MS
"Anytime you tap on experience, that's a whole lot better a lot of times than a bunch of books. If you have somebody that lived it say, this is what you need to do. Especially if it worked out."

Mayor Billy Skellie / Long Beach, MS

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