Leap Day

Barton Dunant
4 min readFeb 4, 2024

Every four years we get an extra day. What will you do with it, to help you become more disaster ready or resilent? Here are some tips from Emergency Management.

1904 — Public Domain
in 1904, the mayor of Severance, Kansas announced that a "bachelor tax" would be imposed on all residents of his town who were not married by the end of the year. Here, E. A. Bushnell combines that with the tradition that, on February 29, women were "allowed" to propose marriage to men. Public Domain. Retrieved from https://picryl.com/media/bushnell-cartoon-about-kansas-and-leap-year-2ff620

February 29th — What will you do with an extra day this year?

2024 is a leap year, so there is an extra day this month, which comes around every four years. Here are some ideas from professional Emergency Managers, to help increase your ability to be more ready…

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