Disasters

Seth’s Blog: Disaster tolerance

10 June 2011

Not all disasters can be avoided.
Not all disasters are fatal.
If you accept these two truths, your approach to risk will change. If you build a disaster-tolerant nation or project or lifestyle, you will be more willing to challenge the fates and won’t hide out.
via Seth’s Blog: Disaster tolerance.
That’s what it comes down to. Disasters come [...]

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Water Water Everywhere

10 May 2011

And it’s all dangerous.
The Mississippi flooding is a big deal. Hopefully New Orleans will be okay but it’s best to get away sooner rather then later. Especially if you are in a low lying area.
Water is big and water is heavy. Fortunately the river is moving slow enough that most things the water gets just [...]

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The Aftermath of the Tornados

4 May 2011

The horrible outbreak of tornados last week has been overwhelming. So many dead and so much property destroyed. The stress of it all is terrible too. Last year we had a much smaller outbreak in our area, but for over a week the weather radio was blaring ever afternoon. And when you are in an [...]

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How To Prepare For A Tornado

19 April 2011

A tornado is a very scary kind of disaster they come fast and can destroy your home in an instant.
What is a Tornado
A tornado is a rotating column of air that touches the ground which forms during a thunderstorm. Since they can only form during thunderstorms you do have some warning about when they might [...]

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Fragile Supply Lines and Disasters

30 March 2011

It looks as though certain people are finally figuring out that Just-In-Time (JIT) delivery, lean manufacturing and other cost saving measures are coming to bite them. But to say that they were unanticipated is ludicrous. Many people have been warning about systemic fragility since the run up to Y2K.
It also not as if we don’t [...]

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Kevin Rose – blogg – Apple’s Role in Japan during the Tohoku Earthquake

15 March 2011

1. Because the trains and phones were down, almost everyone who worked in Tokyo was stranded deep in the city.  All the hotels were booked, the roads were jammed, so hundreds of people were instantly homeless.  Apple told all of their staff – Retail AND Corporate – that they could go sleep at the Apple [...]

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More on the Japanese Earthquake

14 March 2011

What we’re seeing in the wake of the Japanese Earthquake is that being prepared saves lives. Japan is the best prepared country for earthquakes and tsunamis. They have always had respect for earthquakes as they are very common there, but they upgraded their codes after the Kobe earthquake in 1995 to an even higher level. [...]

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Earthquake Preparedness

11 March 2011

With the recent earthquake in Japan it is time to check your earthquake preparedness, if you live on the West coast of North America, along the Wasatch Fault in Utah and Idaho, or near the New Madrid fault along the Mississippi River in the Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas border region.
The worst thing about an [...]

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Hundreds killed in tsunami after 8.9 Japan quake – Yahoo! News

11 March 2011

Hundreds killed in tsunami after 8.9 Japan quake – Yahoo! News.
It looks like Japan has gotten a Big One.
New Zealand had a big one just weeks ago.
If you live in an earthquake zone tonight is the time to make sure your family’s emergency kit is up-to-date.

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The Middle East and Mediterranean Basin are on fire

10 February 2011

The Middle East is on fire. There are riots in:
Lebanan
Tunisia
Egypt
Algeria
Jordan
Yemen
United Arab Emirates
And then there’s the Mediterranean Basin
Greece
France
Britain
and
Spain, Portugal, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Libya, Italy, Albania, Turkey and Chile
Notice a lot of the protesters are college students. And some of the people calling for similar unrest here in the US just happen to be college professors. Isn’t that interesting?
Colorado [...]

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