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New Reality: Innocous High Tide Floods Street [video]
Delaware Sea Grant has released a great short video showing how a little (offshore) storm plus a high tide can affect a seemingly safe street. Take a short break and watch. Expect a lot more like this as we see more sea level rise., »read more
What’s the Relationship Between Climate Change and Extreme Weather?
Some scientists give us the rundown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmJfsjYfVNU
(From Climate, »read more
Tags: adaptation & mitigation, climate change, hazard identification, planning, sea level rise, video, weather & climate
No Budget? No Problem. Mississippi Group Makes Hurricane Safety PSAs on a Shoestring
With no funding (and a little help from the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium), Mississippi's C-HOST (Coastal Hazard Outreach Strategy Team) group has created some great quick public service announcements.
Below is one example, see the C-HOST videos page for more. (Does your group or community want its own StormSmart.org site? Let us, »read moreTags: case study, hurricanes, technology, training & outreach, video
Trying to Drive Climate Change Adaptation? Focus on Social, not Environmental Vision
Like most of us, I'd like to think that getting people the best information will drive them to make the right decisions. Certainly that's been a big drive behind StormSmart Coasts.
Unfortunately, the evidence suggests that things aren't that simple. It's easy to find examples in our own lives of knowing better but still making less than logical decisions, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, climate change, research, sea level rise, training & outreach, video, weather & climate
Horrible and Terrifying (Japanese Tsunami)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4w27IczOTk
Wow. If you live anywhere near the ocean and this doesn't scare you, it probably should., »read more
Tags: emergency services, hazard identification, planning, video
Why and How Businesses (and Municipalities) can Prepare for Disasters
The folks over at the Education Disaster Education Network (EDEN) have come up with a brief video explaining why it's so critical that businesses develop a business continuity and disaster preparedness plan. Easy enough to translate most of it for municipal offices/departments, too.
Worth a quick watch, and a good outreach tool you can use to help your, »read more
Tags: emergency services, Insurance, planning, training & outreach, video
Quick Proof that Building Codes Work [video]
The Institute for Business and Home Safety built a proper hurricane making machine, then constructed two homes in front of it. One was built to standard building codes, the other to their "Fortified for Safer Living" code. They turned the hurricane on and, well, you can see the results.
Wow. Show this the next time your community (or state) is reviewing, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, building, regulations, research, technology, training & outreach, video
Gulf Spill Oil Coming to Atlantic?
What's the real worst case scenario for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill? What it the oil keeps gushing all summer?
The New York Times is reporting that a team of scientists has run the models, and that the results aren't pretty. Nearly all of the simulations show oil heading into the Atlantic, and, perhaps, even making it over to Europe.
However, the, »read moreTags: emergency services, hazard identification, oil spill, technology, video
FEMA Releases New Mobile Website
Want FEMA assistance from your iPhone, Blackberry, or other smart phone? FEMA head Craig Fugate announced the launch of FEMA's new mobile website, m.fema.gov. FEMA says that the "mobile website makes it easier to access critical information regarding emergency preparedness and what to do before and after a disaster right on a smartphone." So far, it looks, »read more
Tags: emergency services, technology, video
High Tech (and generally free) Tools for Disaster Preparation
Mashable has written a short article outlining some of the many ways that people can take advantage of the technology they already own (computers, smart-phones, etc) to help prepare themselves for natural disasters. Some of the ideas:
Using Google My Maps to create evacuation maps (see video below for an intro on how to do this)
Storing medical information, »read moreTags: emergency services, hazard identification, technology, training & outreach, video
