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Author: Nick Meacher
Nick Meacher learned preparedness planning from his extensive career in emergency services and emergency management. With over 25 years as an expert planner developing and teaching emergency response programs, Train-the-Trainer programs, developing a variety of exercises to include Emergency Operations Center and Continuity of Operations. He has worked on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team and in Emergency Operations Centers. He is an instructor for Continuity of Operations, Incident Management, Exercise Design and a number of other related courses.
He is a contributing author to several magazines and teaches preparedness, including developing family emergency plans, communications plans, Amateur Radio and other aspects of being prepared for the natural and man-made disasters that occur every year.
He has been a contributor to several Department of Homeland Security documents on encryption in public safety. He has presented at several state emergency management conferences, the American Association of Airport Executives Emergency Management conferences and Public Safety Communications Summits. He has appeared on a number of podcasts.
He runs a volunteer team that provides free Amateur Radio (HAM) classes and tests and has provided almost 2,000 test sessions in four years with over 1,200 new ham radio operators.
Daily Threat Report – 27 May 2026
What we are tracking today: – The US and Iran are reportedly close to signing an agreement that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz to shipping. The strikes from 25 May are now behind us with no new fighting reported. – Severe thunderstorms with damaging wind gusts are forecast for parts of the Mid-Atlantic this…
DTR 26 MAY – US strikes Iran near Hormuz; Garden Grove threat eased; Ebola doubles
Daily Threat Report – 26 May 2026 Good morning. This is a 72-hour rollup covering the Memorial Day weekend. Three developments lead the cycle: US STRIKES IRAN NEAR HORMUZ US forces struck Iranian missile sites and mine-laying boats near the Strait of Hormuz on 25-MAY, concurrent with an advancing negotiating framework. Iran is threatening to…
COMMS Watch Vol. 1, Issue 5
This week: • A CVSS 10.0 Cisco SD-WAN flaw escalated to a CISA Emergency Directive, with confirmed active exploitation • HF propagation has recovered from last weekend’s geomagnetic storm • A new pending-legislation tracker: CIRCIA, spectrum bills, and active FCC proceedings https://fortunefavorstheprepared.com/comms-watch/ Semper Paratus, Semper Gumby.
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Updates and new stuff
Some updates – nine new articles and reference pages are live on the site. Your support is what made the time to write them possible, and I wanted you to see them first. Weather has been the focus of the latest push. The Weather Awareness article anchors the new suite, with three companion references built…
Two new long-form articles are up on the site. They’re written as a pair.
Read them together if you have the time. They’re built to be read together. ARTICLE 1: Community Lifelines fortunefavorstheprepared.com/community-lifelines/ 22-minute read This is the framework piece. When the next disaster hits your area, the people running the response will be tracking eight things: Safety & Security, Food / Hydration / Shelter, Health & Medical, Energy,…
Today’s Full DTR is open to everyone, no paywall.
14 MAY 2026 │ PREP-CON 3 ELEVATED │ Trend: DETERIORATING │ Op Epic Fury Day 76 │ Blockade Day 32 │ LBN CF Day 29 EXTENDED DETERIORATING (T-3) Eight FLASH events this cycle: CYB-005 Linux Copy Fail CVE-2026-31431 — FCEB remediation deadline TOMORROW 15-MAY. URGENT for any Linux fleet operator. CYB-001 PAN-OS RCE CVE-2026-0300 —…
Todays Reports and new article
Todays DTR and other reports are up including the weekly Data Center and Infrastructure report – you can access them all here https://fortunefavorstheprepared.com/dtr/ I’ve re-organized the intelligence section, I’ve got some new landing pages to do yet but I also added an article on wireless recon devices here https://fortunefavorstheprepared.com/wireless-recon-devices/ I’m hoping the new home page…
Updates
Website Some of you may have noticed (because I’ve figured out how to see errors on the back end of the website 🙂 that in doing some major updates I broke stuff 🙂I’ve fixed them – I think – so if you noticed any broken links please let me know. As I mentioned, I’ve got…