An article from Domestic Preparedness identifies five steps emergency managers can take to put their organizations on the path to weather and climate disaster resilience. As argued by the article’s author, the time is now to take these preventative measures given that 16 extreme weather and climate disasters had losses exceeding $1 billion in 2017. This compares to the annual average of $5.5 billion weather and climate disasters between 1980 and 2016. And more notable than the high frequency of these events is the cumulative cost, which exceeded $300 billion in 2017 – a new U.S. annual record. That shatters the previous U.S. annual record cost of $214.8 billion in 2005 associated with the impacts of Hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. Domestic Preparedness.