Disaster Preparedness Blog

• The Major Things I am Doing Now To Up My Preparedness
  Food Storage for PreparednessIn the last month, I have stepped up my preparedness efforts in a major way. I have always been well prepared. I keep a nice stock of many things. From Food, Water, Medicine, and other items. Below are the major things I…
  - 13 days ago 5 Jan 21, 5:17pm -
• If There Was Ever A Time To Prepare, The Time Is Now!
  I have been putting a call out to Prepare for a while now. The time is short, and, if there was ever a time to prepare, the time is now! We were well prepared before and I recently began scaling up our family preparedness efforts and put out the wor…
  - 14 days ago 4 Jan 21, 8:17pm -
• 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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Emergency Management

• University of Colorado Boulder Preps for In-Person Spring Term
  
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• Biden Selects NYC’s Deanne Criswell as FEMA Administrator
  
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• Some COVID-19 Solutions for Women Proposed by Melinda Gates
  
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• First Responders Balk at New Ambulance Until City Ordinance Changes
  
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• Lack of Vaccines Prompts West Palm Beach to Curtail Events
  
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Relief Web

• Indonesia: Earthquake - Jan 2021
  Affected country: Indonesia Glide: EQ-2021-000003-IDN A strong earthquake of 6.2 M hit the Western part of Sulawesi on the early morning of 15 of January. The epicenter of the quake was…
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• Indonesia: Floods and Landslides - Jan 2021
  Affected country: Indonesia Glide: FL-2021-000005-IDN Indonesia’s Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency predicts the peak of La Nina to occur in December 2020 and Janu…
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• Malaysia: Floods - Jan 2021
  Affected country: Malaysia Glide: FL-2021-000001-MYS Significant heavy rains which began on 2 January 2021 have caused flooding in five states in Peninsular Malaysia – Johor, Pahang, K…
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• Mongolia: Dzud - Dec 2020
  Affected country: Mongolia Glide: CW-2020-000243-MNG The Mongolian Red Cross Society (MRCS) has activated its Early Action Protocol for Dzud on 18 December 2020 based on the dzud trigger…
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• Tropical Cyclone Yasa - Dec 2020
  Affected countries: Fiji, Vanuatu Glide: TC-2020-000238-FJI The newly formed Tropical Cyclone YASA is moving in the South Pacific Ocean, between Vanuatu and Fiji Islands...On 14-16 Decem…
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Almanac

California Weather Blog

• Topsy-turvy weather pattern to bring record warmth and strong winds, but then big shift to colder/wetter conditions
  Wet season precipitation to date: far below average Few readers will be surprised by the fact that the 2020-2021 Water Year to date has been rather dismal, precipitation-wise, throughout California. Nearly the entire state (with the very localized ex…
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• Semi-active winter pattern likely across NorCal, but magnitude of pattern change uncertain (and good riddance to 2020)
  2020 in California weather, wildfire, and otherwise: good riddance! Let’s just face it: 2020 has been a truly awful year in California–weather-wise, and otherwise. California suffered its worst wildfire season on record, by an enormous margin, in…
  - 18 days ago 31 Dec 20, 7:35pm -
• Welcome precipitation across NorCal, but not enough to keep pace; SoCal remains dry
  Record-dry start to “wet season” in some places It will come as a surprise to absolutely no one in California that 2020 has brought a pretty abysmal start to the rainy season. The formal stats certainly bear that out: most of NorCal has experienc…
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Capital Weather Gang

• newLos Angeles, San Francisco brace for damaging winds, rare January fire threat
  An unusual weather pattern is set to bring damaging winds and "critical" fire weather risk to Los Angeles and San Francisco beginning late Monday.
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• newInauguration Day has a cold but seldom snowy history in Washington
  The 2021 presidential inauguration is predicted to be dry but blustery and cold.
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• newD.C.-area forecast: Chilly weather all week long but little precipitation
  It’s not often you’ll see a 7-day forecast in mid-January this quiet.
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• newPM Update: More sunshine but a bit windier for MLK Day
  Tame and seasonable conditions continue for the start of inauguration week.
  - 19 hours ago 17 Jan 21, 9:30pm -
• Fact or fiction? Putting seven top weather sayings to the test.
  You’ve heard that a “red sky at morning” foreshadows stormy weather, or that a ring around the moon means rain. But how much are such sayings steeped in science?
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