Category: preparedness
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Be the Help Until Help Arrives
Years ago I had several threads on disaster preparedness on Twitter. I have been slowly working on converting them into posts here, which has been going… very, very slowly. So instead of trying to do that, I’m going to leave the text mostly intact and check it for readability. Just remember these used to be…
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Making a plan
Note: This is adapted from a thread I posted on Twitter a few years back. I have been migrating information like this over to my blog since it’s become Birdchan over there. I originally wrote this in the month of September, which is Disaster Preparedness month. I was encouraging my friends to take a little…
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Tornado Watch vs Warning
Awhile back I had someone who recently moved to Texas from a place that doesn’t really get tornados express that they were confused between Tornado Watches versus Tornado Warnings, so I created a thread on Twitter with a bit of an explainer & what to do when you are under a Watch or a Warning.…
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You should have a go-bag
I live in Texas, where the sky regularly tries to kill us. If it’s not thunderstorms, it’s hail, and if it’s not that, it’s tornados. Folks to the south have hurricanes, and to the west and southwest have wildfires to contend with as well. Disasters can cause homes to be uninhabitable until repairs can be…