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#DisasterManagement

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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Climate Change Key Driver Of Catastrophic Impacts Of Hurricane Helene That Devastated Both Coastal And Inland Communities [technical report]
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alturl.com/5n38k <-- shared technical report
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #hurricane #hurricanehelene #spatiotemporal #risk #hazard #naturaldisaster #impact #climatechange #precipitation #seasurfacetemperature #Appalachia #damage #loss #infrastructure #deaths #rainfall #precipitation #flood #flooding #engineeringgeology #erosion #massmovement #mudslides #landslides #debrisflows #disastermanagement #prediction #mitigation #climatemodels #model #modeling #spatiotemporal #IRIS #winds #extremeweather #weather #storm #humanimpacts #costs #economy #SST #warning #weatherprediction #dams #reservoirs #loss #lossoflife

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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

It's a Little Piece of Normal [FEMA Waffle House Index]
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fema.gov/blog/its-little-piece <-- shared FEMA blog post
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_H <-- wiki page
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"... The index has three levels, based on the extent of operations and service at the restaurant following a storm:
• GREEN: full menu – Restaurant has power and damage is minimal or absent.
• YELLOW: limited menu – Power is either absent or delivered by a generator, or food supplies are running low.
• RED: the restaurant is closed – Indicates severe damage or severe flooding; Severe destruction to the restaurant…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #extremeweather #wafflehouse #wafflehouseindex #FEMA #disaster #hurricane #monitoring #appraisal #metric #informal #crowdsourcing #community #disastermanagement #disasterresponse #restuarant
@FEMA @WaffleHouse

FEMA graphic - details of Waffle House Index
graphic - Waffle house sign in flood water
photo - The remains of a Waffle House in Biloxi, Mississippi, after Hurricane Katrina
map example - the Waffle House Index plotted across Southern USA
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Jasper

Very good interview with Florence Gaub about our perception and thinking about #future and #anxiety management.

What I find to be especially important for preventative #Crisismanagement is that #institutions have to think about possible futures in an open and #creative way, instead of just #planning based on past #information.

For example: Not being able to imagine that #Russia would actually invade #Ukraine or that #Ukraine would mount a successful defence has cost several weeks, even months, that could've been used for #preparation and #contingency planning.

Same goes for many natural #disasters.

#DisasterManagement #CivilProtection #CivilDefense #catastrophe #Crisis #management #disasterrelief

spiegel.de/ausland/wird-putin-

DER SPIEGELSicherheitsexpertin über Militärtaktiken: Warum haben Sie keine Angst vor der Bombe, Florence Gaub?By Juan Moreno
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His & Hearse Press

National Titanic Remembrance Day 🚢🪦

It’s been 111 years since the Titanic sunk on April 15, 1912. Of the approximately 2240 passengers and crew on board, over 1500 died that day.

The White Star Line chartered four ships to help retrieve bodies of victims: the Mackay-Bennett, CS Minia, CGS Montmagny, and SS Algerine. They only managed to recover about 330 bodies, about 23% of the number who died.

The recovery ships were loaded with undertakers, embalming supplies, coffins, ice, canvas bags, and iron bars. First Class victims were embalmed and stored in coffins. Second and Third Class victims were embalmed (while they still had supplies), then wrapped in canvas. Crew members were put on ice. Some victims were misidentified as being from a higher class: in moments of desperation, they pillaged the abandoned First Class cabins for warm clothing.

Bodies that were unidentifiable, either from disfigurement or decomposition, were buried at sea in canvas shrouds weighted with iron bars. Others were buried at sea simply due to the shortage of embalming chemicals, as there were rules against bringing unembalmed bodies ashore (the rule was temporarily waived shortly after). Clergy conducted brief services for these unfortunates before casting them back into the water. Most were lower class or crew members, as the First Class were given preferential treatment. It was justified since they were “wealthy men with large estates to be settled.”

Of the 330 or so bodies recovered, 119 were buried at sea. The rest were taken to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The VIP bodies went to the local undertaker’s parlor. Everyone else went to the temporary morgue at the Mayflower Curling Rink. Bodies were embalmed in a screened area (a woman embalmed the deceased women and children), then placed on platforms for identification. One undertaker collapsed in shock as he discovered the body of his own uncle among the dead.

59 bodies were claimed by their families. 150 were buried in three Halifax cemeteries, including 42 who remain unidentified.

A purple damask frame around a blue ocean and sky background. A sepia photo on top shows two men in uniforms attending to a dead body on the deck of a ship. Text reads, “National Titanic Remembrance Day. Of the 2240 passengers and crew aboard, over 1500 died. Four ships were chartered to retrieve bodies. Only about 330 were recovered. First Class bodies were embalmed on deck and placed in coffins. Lower classes and crew were put on ice or sewn into shrouds. Some were weighted and returned to sea. Bodies were stored, embalmed, dressed, and identified at a temporary ice rink morgue in Nova Scotia. 59 were claimed by families, and 150 (42 unidentified) were buried in Halifax cemeteries.”
#HisAndHearsePress#Titanic#NationalTitanicRemembranceDay
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

How To Use Free Satellite Data To Monitor Natural Disasters And Environmental Changes
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theconversation.com/how-to-use <-- shared article
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H/T Quisheng Wu
“... [The author] work[s] with geospatial big data as a professor. [This article] is a quick tour of where you can find satellite images, plus some free, fairly simple tools that anyone can use to create time-lapse animations from satellite images….”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #Risk #Prioritization #Hazard #Assessment #EmergencyManagement #disaster #riskmanagement #planning #mitigation #threats #multihazard #EmergencyManagement #RiskAnalysis #gischat #RiskHazard #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #people #management #data #SMEs #planninganalytics #riskassessment #riskmitigation #monitoringandevaluation #disastermanagement #disasterriskreduction #remotesensing #imagery #landsat #opendata #openaccess #sentinel #environmental #changes #animation #timelapse #timelapsevideo #tutorial #satellite #satelliteimagery

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Pamela Cajilig

I recently had the pleasure of conversing with Philippine Coast Guard officers who are assigned the challenging task of implementing disaster response in coastal communities, particularly evacuation. This prompted me to share our research on non-evacuation decision-making during the 3-meter storm surge of Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan, which I'm also sharing here. This is a chapter from the book "Disaster Archipelago" edited by Carin Alejandria (UBD) and Will Smith (Deakin) which can be accessed here: tinyurl.com/mrx3ywz4

In this design anthropology x cognitive science piece we trace non-evacuation decision-making before & during typhoon impact. We resist the idea that non-evacuees are "hardheaded" and "irrational" by examining the cultural logic and embodied nature of their decision-making.

Two findings that caught our team's attention:
2 findings that caught our attention:
1. The gendered nature of non-evacuation: the decision to stay in many families was made by men who took pride in the craftmanship of their home. Leaving meant admitting their craftsmanship failed.
2. The importance of lateral thinking, frequently associated with formally trained designers. Many survived the storm surge by quickly spotting the alternative affordances of household items: TV stands = ladders, basin = lifeboat for infant, refrigerators and plastic water containers = lifebuoy.

The study also briefly traces the policy changes and improvements made in disaster management at the household and national level in the aftermath of the typhoon.

Epilogue: While significant strides have been made in disaster responsive, Philippine DRR remains reactive with an average of 60% of local government resources allocated for relief (Brucal, 2020). We're improving but still a long way to go in terms of shifting towards a proactive and long-term rather than a reactive and short-term orientation.

The first page of a book chapter titled 'Sanay Kami sa Bagyo (We Are Used to Storms): Unpacking "irrational" Evacuation Decision-making within the Sentient Ecology during Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)'
#research#disasterriskreduction#disastermanagement
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