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…
  - 42 days ago 26 May 20, 2:27pm -
• 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

• How Diseases Like the Coronavirus Jump from Animals to Humans
  
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• After 4 Months, Coronavirus Cases on the Rise in Iowa Again
  
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• Key to Quality Health Care for Communities of Color Is Tech
  
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• Community Health Program Should Eliminate Unnecessary ER Trips
  
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• COVID-19 Outbreaks Shift from Nursing Homes to Retail, Restaurants
  
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Relief Web

• Cote d'Ivoire: Floods and Landslides - Jun 2020
  Affected country: Côte d'Ivoire Glide: FL-2020-000154-CIV Heavy rain has been affecting southern Côte d'Ivoire (particularly the area of the capital Abidjan) over the past 48 hours, tr…
  - 20 days ago 17 Jun 20, 12:00am -
• Tropical Cyclone Cristobal - Jun 2020
  Affected countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Glide: TC-2020-000146-SLV Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall in west of Ciudad del Carmen (Campeche State, eastern Mexico…
  - 34 days ago 3 Jun 20, 12:00am -
• DR Congo: Ebola Outbreak - Jun 2020
  Affected countries: Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo Glide: EP-2020-000144-COD The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced today that a new outbreak of…
  - 36 days ago 1 Jun 20, 12:00am -
• Tropical Cyclone Amanda - May 2020
  Affected countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Glide: TC-2020-000142-SLV Pacific Tropical Storm Amanda struck El Salvador and Guatemala on 30 May, unleashing flooding and l…
  - 37 days ago 31 May 20, 12:00am -
• Cuba: Severe Local Storm - May 2020
  Affected country: Cuba Glide: SS-2020-000143-CUB On 25 to 26 May, a severe local storm brought tornados, hail falls, waterspouts and linear winds over 92 km/h. A tornado event was regist…
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Almanac

California Weather Blog

• Another NorCal heatwave next week, but progressive pattern continues
  A very warm spring across California and Southwest California has experienced an unusually high number of early-season heatwaves already this season. More commonly a season of “May Gray” and “June Gloom” due to a persistent and chilly marine…
  - 17 days ago 19 Jun 20, 6:08pm -
• Unusually intense and prolonged early-season heatwave developing across California
  Following recent NorCal rains, a dramatic shift to hot/dry conditions It has been an unusually warm spring so far across nearly all of California, but it has also been a pretty wet spring in southern California. Recent rains finally brought some temp…
  - 44 days ago 23 May 20, 6:21pm -
• After hot start to May, spring storm to bring rain & some thunderstorms to NorCal
  Return to comfortably cool conditions following early season heatwaves Late April and early May were very warm and occasionally hot across most of California. This was especially the case across the south and the interior, where quite a few new daily…
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Capital Weather Gang

• newHeavy storms lingering across parts of the D.C. area
  Up to 3 to 5 inches of rain has fallen east of town, and areas of flash flooding may linger overnight.
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• newPM Update: Heat index approaches 100 again Tuesday, with some afternoon storms possible
  We're stuck on a bad cycle of repeating high heat and humidity.
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• newFlash flood emergency in Philadelphia as storms dump half a foot of rain in two hours
  The flow rate of Frankford Creek increased 35,000 percent.
  - 8 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 8:57pm -
• newLong-lasting, far-reaching heat wave to swallow much of Lower 48
  In some areas, that heat may not relent for weeks..
  - 11 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 5:58pm -
• newInside the storm that injured 19 people in Anne Arundel County on Sunday evening
  Hot, extremely unstable air triggered the storm blasted the community of Pasadena.
  - 14 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 3:25pm -