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Just-In-Time Life – Riding the Edge of Disaster - John Allen
Our modern age of convenience makes just about everything we need or want available with a click on the computer, a phone call, or at worst a drive to the neighborhood store. There isn’t much we can’t have delivered or have done for us, and very few of our affairs we can’t manage online. And... Submitted 6 years 76 days ago.

Florida- Hurricanes and Safety. - - straight talk
Well by now we are all versed with the Gulf Coast disaster and Hurricane Katrina. We saw the result of inadequate response and we see the aftermath every evening on television. Well, regretfully, or unfortunately, the new buzz words of this century, what are you going to do if we experience a... Submitted 6 years 83 days ago.

Tornado Survival: What We Did When The Lights Went Out! - - Bob Alexander
The lights flickered once, twice, three times and then they went out entirely. No power, and later into the night, no water. Spring in the Deep South is tornado time and storms were springing up everywhere. EF5 tornados are a rare thing, but they struck all over the state of Alabama last week... Submitted 1 year 21 days ago.

Preparing For A Global Disaster - - Alan Detwiler
People might have to go back to living as people did a century or more ago. There are half a dozen events that could cause that to happen. Cataclysmic events have occurred before and it seems certain they will continue to repeatedly occur. Scientists say that a large asteroid impact during the... Submitted 1 year 51 days ago.

Australian Man Found In a Village Near Sendai After Japan Quake - Harry
An Australian, Jason Briffa, was reportedly missing after earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Reports say that he was sighted in a village near Sendai helping out other victims in the vicinity. However, her sister does not want to believe on false hope and she wanted to speak with him directly and... Submitted 1 year 73 days ago.

Nuclear Radiation Leak Rise After New Explosion, Death Toll Surprass 10,000 In Japan - - Dakhsh Jain
Death toll in Japan has been estimated to surprass the ten thousand deaths mark. New explosion (hydrogen blast) at Unit 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Monday, raising new fears of a possible nuclear meltdown and higher nuclear radiation leak. NISA officials reported that reactor No.... Submitted 1 year 73 days ago.

Volcanic Eruption In Japan: After Tsunami,Nuclear Radiation-Volcano Erupts Again - - Dakhsh Jain
Volcano in Japan erupts again in the Southern part of the country. Japan was already shocked and horrified by a 8.9 magnitude quake, 30 foot high tsusnami waves, nuclear power emergecy state . Nuclear crisis in Japan has led to dangerous nuclear radiation which is feared that it can spread... Submitted 1 year 73 days ago.

Japan Tsunami 2011: Quake Death Toll Rises Above 1000,Govt Calls Nuclear Power Emergency - - Dakhsh Jain
Both Reuters and the Los Angeles Times are reporting that at least 1,000 people are presumed dead in Japan after Friday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake. 2011 Japan earth quake is the worst hit in more than 100 years which triggered the devastating tsunami claiming lives of thousands and tsunami death... Submitted 1 year 75 days ago.

New Madrid Fault & Arkansas Earthquakes Spur Fears In The Midwest - - Kevin Baum
Recently, we have seen a dramatic increase in sales of SurvivalOutpost products to customers in the Midwest. The reason for this increase in sales would seem intuitive -- Midwestern states have been getting routinely hammered by the epic winter snows of 2011; and indeed, this is partially the... Submitted 1 year 95 days ago.

Does God Send Calamities and Judgments? - - John Waddey
Much of our daily news has to do with disasters. Some of them are natural and others are man-caused. Both of which bring suffering, death and destruction on mankind. When disasters occur, it is common for religious people to assume that the disaster was a judgement sent on man by God because of... Submitted 1 year 118 days ago.

Higher Degree of Fractals - M E Reza
It was a study of fractals in Elliot Wave Principle and its applicability to the Theory of Chaos that brought me back from a hiatus of putting my thoughts on disaster management and related issues. Reflecting on natural disasters, the destruction they wreaked over the years, and the emerging... Submitted 1 year 293 days ago.

ASEAN's Evolution in Disaster Management. - M E Reza
A new milestone has been reached by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the evolution of disaster management for the region. Recently, the Philippines' Senate ratified the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER), and with that the agreement is... Submitted 2 years 212 days ago.

Flash Floods Nature's Vengeance - M E Reza
In the nature of things, sometimes reaction follow only when disaster strikes, i.e. when it is too late. As disasters leave their mortal impact, and after so many innocent people lost their lives, there will be finger-pointing and clamor for blood. Such was the case with the recent flash floods... Submitted 2 years 234 days ago.

Are Tents Adequate Shelters For Disaster Recovery? - - Richard Grabowski
I do not believe so . I believe there was a time when tents were adequate: in the past. The problem I have is failing to understand how, in this modern age, we can have so many people who do not have adequate shelter in our world. With new technology and material, vast global distribution... Submitted 2 years 271 days ago.

Shelter In Place During a Disaster? - Cory Doggett
I hear a lot of people talking about wilderness survival in case of disaster. I was close to Houston during the Hurricane Rita evacuation. The hurricane didn't hit, but 2.5 million people evacuated from the area. This is just a fraction of the population. It was taking up to eight hours to drive... Submitted 4 years 105 days ago.

Still in Hell: Two years after Hurricane Katrina! - - Deadly Intellect
It's been two long years since my life along with hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents were changed by the fury of Hurricane Katrina. As a New Orleans native and someone that was "racially put in my place" by numerous Federal and State officials, I must say that not much has changed. I... Submitted 4 years 270 days ago.

Hurricane Katrina - Enduring the Pain - Avis Ward
The devastation caused by this disaster: loss of life, separation from family, loss of animals, income, property, and loss of innocence is something I am incapable of handling emotionally. No, I am not a survivor of this continuing nightmare. It grieves me to think about the magnitude of the... Submitted 5 years 268 days ago.

Unison Smile and the whole world smiles with you - Kacycarr
What is wrong with the world today, we have war torn countries battling it out against each other and the shocking sad part about it all is these people are neighbors. Then we have terrorism where we are forced to suspect everyone or anyone around us. Talk of paranoia. Muggings and murders now... Submitted 6 years 255 days ago.

Tsunami Alert,Warnings Issued: Japanese Quake Effects On India's Economy,Companies List In Japan - - Dakhsh Jain
Japanese earthquake, Tsunami alert widens and spreads to 19 other countries including Indonesia, Jakarta, Hawaii etc all are on Tsunami high alert. Government authorities have issued tsunami warnings and have evacuated people to safer higher areas as the tsunami waves are expected to be... Submitted 1 year 76 days ago.

Queensland Is Suffering From Yet Another Disaster Brought By Cyclone Yasi - Harry
Cyclone Yasi which is a category 5 super storm hit Australia, specifically Queensland, and destroyed millions of properties and lives. Prime Minister Julia Gillard said that Yasi is probably the worst cyclone to ever hit Australia. Just about three weeks ago, the government of Australia... Submitted 1 year 113 days ago.

Climate Change Triggers La Nina to Cause Widespread Flooding in Australia - - Harry
Extreme weather patterns as manifested by the El Ni ~ o and La Ni ~ a phenomena are deemed as major factors that may initiate unusual climate changes resulting to potential environmental damages. An evident of this is the most recent flooding incident in Australia, which has brought severe... Submitted 1 year 127 days ago.

Communication After a Disaster - Matthew Zornes
There are many methods of communication after a disaster. It's a complicated subject, so in this article we'll just cover some of the basics. After most disasters, the power is going to be out and phone lines/cell phone towers will be overwhelmed. But if you prepare ahead of time, you'll be able... Submitted 1 year 139 days ago.

Wildfires - A Growing Natural Hazard. - M E Reza
Wildfire/forest fire, whenever it's raging, spreads fast and furious, covering vast areas extensively. With the exception of Antarctica, wildfires occur on every continent, causing extensive damage, to both property and human life. Even though some wildfires burn in remote forested areas, they... Submitted 1 year 230 days ago.

Landslides' Avalanche of Mud. - M E Reza
When China observed a day of mourning on 15th August 2010 for the victims of the previous week's deadliest mudslide in Zhouqu, Gansu province, similar calamities of varying scale occurred elsewhere in various parts of Asia Pacific region. Landslides are common occurrences closely connected with... Submitted 1 year 266 days ago.

Tsunami of Mud, Rocks, and Water. - M E Reza
Never have we seen so many occurrences of landslides/mudslides over a short period of just a few months (May-August 2010), albeit happening in different locations. In late May 2010, heavy rains brought flooding and landslides which killed 53 people in China's south-western Guangxi region.... Submitted 1 year 281 days ago.