Disaster Preparedness Blog

• Want to know the top three things that scare me?
  The Top Three Disasters That Scare MeAs a prepper and a preparedness professional there are still things that scare me. Few things do, but there are some things that even if you’re prepared for can still be a nightmare. What are those three things…
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• Disaster Tip of The Week: Prepare to Adapt to Changes In Your Life
  Sometimes, life causes us to make changes. One's we didn't really plan for. In the last few years I have had to change my plans and the way I prep. I went from being a Bug-Out person to one of Bugging-in. Let me share the story.I started “preppin…
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• Scenario of the Month: An Ice-Storm Wrecks Havoc
  Melted Fiber-optic CableIt is Mid-November. After a week of above-average temperatures and some heavy rain. A massive cold front has moved into your area causing an ice-storm and covering everything in layers of ice. The Mayor has declared a local…
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• Disaster Tip of The Week: Set Meeting Points to Reunite With Family and Loved Ones
  Meeting PointsIt's hard to believe I wrote a brief post about this over ten years ago - Have a Designated Meeting Place For Your Family. Today, I'd like to expand on this a bit more.Odds are when a disaster or other unexpected event occurs you are…
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• Medicine and Preparedness: The 22 Medications You Need in Your Personal Stockpile
  Mdeicine for SurvivalMedicine and Preparedness: The 22 Medications You Need in Your Personal Stockpile NOW!I have seen and read many posts over the years about adding or using medicines meant for pets during preparedness or survival situations. Now…
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Emergency Management

• EDITORIAL: Everyone Must Pull Together to Beat COVID-19
  
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• A Linn County, Ore., Emergency Shelter Offers Lessons Learned
  
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• Areas With COVID Clusters to Get Asterisk on Health Reports
  
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• County Sheriff’s Department Partially Shut Down Due to COVID
  
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• Kansas and Missouri Decide Who Will Get COVID Vaccine First
  
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Relief Web

• Syria: Wild Fires - Oct 2020
  Affected country: Syrian Arab Republic Glide: FR-2020-000208-SYR At the time of writing, large scale fires across the coastal regions in Syria have caused at least three deaths and dozen…
  - 17 days ago 8 Oct 20, 12:00am -
• DR Congo: Floods - Oct 2020
  Affected country: Democratic Republic of the Congo Glide: FL-2020-000206-COD Floods have affected North Kivu Province (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo) following heavy rain on 2…
  - 23 days ago 2 Oct 20, 12:00am -
• Cambodia: Floods - Oct 2020
  Affected country: Cambodia Glide: FL-2020-000212-KHM Since October 1, Cambodia has experienced heavy rainfall across much of the country. As of October 12, seven provinces have been affe…
  - 24 days ago 1 Oct 20, 12:00am -
• Ecuador: Sangay Volcano - Sep 2020
  Affected country: Ecuador Glide: VO-2020-000205-ECU In the early hours of 20 September 2020, the Sangay volcano, located in the central Ecuadorian province of Morona Santiago, registered…
  - 35 days ago 20 Sep 20, 12:00am -
• Viet Nam: Floods and Landslides - Sep 2020
  Affected country: Viet Nam Glide: FL-2020-000210-VNM Tropical Cyclone NOUL made landfall in Viet Nam over the coastal area between Dong Ha and Hue cities (Thua Thien Hue Province) on 18…
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Almanac

California Weather Blog

• Very strong offshore wind event to bring extreme wildfire risk Sun/Mon, esp. NorCal
  Still no relief in California: bone dry conditions persist .This section will be very short: it still hasn’t rained. For the most part, it has still been warmer than average since the last blog update. Vegetation remains at peak summer-like dryness…
  - 3 days ago 22 Oct 20, 10:13pm -
• Swing and a miss: anticipated October rain evaporates, and more adverse fire weather on horizon
  September: record warm in California It was a September to remember across California, and not in a good way. Following an extraordinary lightning fire siege and record heat in August, September brought…an even more destructive second surge in wild…
  - 17 days ago 8 Oct 20, 6:41pm -
• Increasingly extreme autumn wildfire conditions in California due to climate change
  Note: This special Weather West article focuses on new peer-reviewed scientific research, led by Michael Goss, that my colleagues and I recently published in Environmental Research Letters. I originally intended to publish this post earlier in the…
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Capital Weather Gang

• newD.C.-area forecast: And now for something totally different
  A dreary, damp and cool Sunday is a dramatic shift from recent days. More rain possible by Wednesday night and Thursday.
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• newDeadly Colorado wildfire tears through Rocky Mountain National Park, threatens Estes Park
  Colorado's second-largest wildfire on record is expanding Saturday before an expected snowstorm.
  - 9 hours ago 25 Oct 20, 12:44am -
• newCalifornia’s devastating wildfire season may worsen Sunday, power shutoff could eclipse 1 million
  Northern California faces what could be its biggest offshore wind event of the season, prompting power cuts to nearly 1 million.
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• newPM Update: Big temperature drop overnight. Raw and cool conditions Sunday.
  Gusty winds overnight usher in some much cooler (and wetter) weather on Sunday.
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• D.C.-area forecast: Another warm one today, but it’s much chillier Sunday
  A cold front is moving through, and there could be a couple brief showers as it passes. It could be as much as 30 degrees cooler tomorrow!
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