Disaster Preparedness Blog

• 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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• WHY YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE A THREE DAY SUPPLY OF WATER
  Water is Life by Williami5 via FlickerHaving water is essential for survival. This we know. Over the years however a massive campaign was launched to get ALL Americans to have At Least three days of water stored for emergencies. This then become 72…
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• Ebola Virus - Major Issues Coming to Light on Containment
  Source: CDC Ebola VirusWhile I took some downtime for my birthday major things were going on in the world that I missed. One of these events surrounds some major developments regarding the containment of Ebloa or the lack there of.Though current re…
  - 13 Aug 14, 5:14pm -
• Ebola Virus - Why Has It Spread So Far, So Fast?
  Source: CDC - Ebola VirusThe Ebola outbreak in the West African Countries of Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone has so far caused Suspected Case Deaths: 961, with Suspected and Confirmed Case Count: 1779 as of this writing.The spread of the…
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• Where are the Safest States to Live In 2014?
  According to the study, Massachusetts is the safest State to live and New Hampshire comes in at number two. Overall the entire North-East of the United States is pretty safe overall based on this study.The study used the following safety factors…
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Emergency Management

• FEMA Wants a Piece of the PG&E Wildfire Victim Settlement Pie
  
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• Employees Worked as Virginia Beach SWAT Trained at Mass Shooting Site
  
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• Locals Probably Won’t Be Reimbursed for Hurricane Imelda Costs
  
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• Conserving the Floodplains Could Save Billions of Dollars
  
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• Florida Senate Addressing Proposal to Tackle Rising Sea Levels
  
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Relief Web

• Madagascar: Tropical Cyclone Belna - Dec 2019
  GLIDE number: TC-2019-000164-MDGDisaster type: Tropical CycloneAffected countries: Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte (France), MozambiqueTropical Cyclone TWO formed over the southern Indian Ocean on 1 December, moving south-west towards Madagascar. On…
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• Burundi: Burundi: Floods and Landslides - Dec 2019
  GLIDE number: FL-2019-000167-BDIDisaster type: Flood, Land SlideAffected countries: BurundiIn the night of 4 to 5 December, 26 people died and over 500 people were affected by torrential rains and landslides which caused devastation in the northwe…
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• Philippines: Typhoon Kammuri - Nov 2019
  GLIDE number: TC-2019-000159-PHLDisaster type: Tropical CycloneAffected countries: PhilippinesAccording to the Philippines Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) as of 10:00 local time on 29 November 2019, Tropic…
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• Malaysia: Malaysia: Floods and Landslides - Nov 2019
  GLIDE number: FL-2019-000162-MYSDisaster type: Flash Flood, Flood, Land SlideAffected countries: MalaysiaSignificant heavy rains from 26 November 2019 have caused flooding in four states in Peninsular Malaysia, namely, Johor, Kelantan, Pahang and…
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• Albania: Albania: Earthquake - Nov 2019
  GLIDE number: EQ-2019-000157-ALBDisaster type: EarthquakeAffected countries: AlbaniaThe 6.4 magnitude quake struck just before 4 a.m., 34 kilometres northwest of Tirana, Albania’s capital, and has killed 16 people and injured more than 600, acco…
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Almanac

California Weather Blog

• Classic winter storm to bring rain, wind, thunderstorms to NorCal
  Finally looks like the wet season in California Following what turned out to be an exceptionally dry autumn in California, especially in the north, winter-like weather arrived in fairly dramatic fashion around Thanksgiving–and the active pattern ha…
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• Wild weather week in California: fire risk, rain/wind, low snow levels
  Brief window of elevated wildfire potential today in NorCal To start off what will ultimately become a pretty wet and wild weather week throughout California, the first item to contend with will be…briefly critical fire weather conditions across mo…
  - 16 days ago 25 Nov 19, 4:27pm -
• Dramatic shift to active weather in SoCal; very late season wildfire risk persists in NorCal
  Sudden shift from record heat to localized downpours in SoCal A fairly dramatic weather pattern change will take place today across Southern California. Following several days of record heat nearly statewide (including temperatures that approached al…
  - 22 days ago 19 Nov 19, 3:57pm -

Capital Weather Gang

• newPM Update: Cold and mainly clear tonight through Thursday
  Temperatures should make it into the 20s tonight.
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• newParade of storms to target eastern U.S. starting Friday, as unsettled pattern kicks in
  The first of several systems will be mainly rain. Then things could get a little more interesting.
  - 6 hours ago 11 Dec 19, 8:15pm -
• new'We are deeply concerned’: House Science Committee seeks investigation of how 5G could hurt weather forecasting
  The disagreements between government agencies on the risks that 5G technology poses to weather satellites has prompted the House Science Committee to request a GAO investigation.
  - 9 hours ago 11 Dec 19, 5:45pm -
• newThe Washington region saw its first snow of the season. Here’s how much fell.
  In most locations, it amounted to just a coating or so and mainly stuck to grassy surfaces and car tops.
  - 10 hours ago 11 Dec 19, 5:02pm -
• newThe decade’s last full moon will occur at 12:12 a.m. on 12/12
  Wednesday night's full moon is the last of the decade and is known as the "cold moon."
  - 10 hours ago 11 Dec 19, 4:31pm -