Severe
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Here’s a notice of the upcoming Severe Weather Preparedness Week from our friends at the NWS office in Peachtree City: Beginning next week (Monday, February 5), with support from our state emergency management partners (GEMA), we will recognize Severe Weather Preparedness Week for the state of Georgia. Each day (through Friday, Feb 9) will address…
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While you might know that PTSD, or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, is a result of being in stressful situations like combat under fire, you might not know that it can also occur in people who have lived through a traumatic event like a tornado, hurricane or fire. Politico has an interesting story about the psychological toll…
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If you’ve watched the news at all this morning you know about the almost incomprehensible tragedy that is unfolding in Texas today. The remains of Harvey have brought 2 feet (yes FEET) of rain to the Houston area in the last day, and since Harvey is forecast to remain and spin over Texas for at…
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Here’s an interesting story from the Capital Weather Gang on Ronald Reagan’s near-disastrous Air Force One landing at Andrews AFB on August 1, 1983. A microburst hit the airport with winds of up to 149 mph just six minutes after Reagan’s plane landed. Microbursts, which once were considered to be fictitious, have been known to…
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For those of you who like sailing and exciting stories, here is a story from Smithsonian magazine I ran across today on the Mobile Bay sailing disaster of 2015, when hurricane-force winds “swept more than 100 boaters into one of the worst sailing disasters in modern American history.” Surprisingly, it is a story I don’t…
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Nine out of every ten people that get hit by lightning survive, according to a post today by The Week magazine. But their health afterwards can be significantly changed, and even their personalities can be affected by the trauma as well as the rewiring of their internal electrical circuits (which is really what the nervous…
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Since we are now entering the heart of hurricane and flood season, when evacuations may become necessarily, it’s a good idea to think about your evacuation plans. FEMA is a great source of information on how to plan for an evacuation (for example, see https://www.ready.gov/evacuating-yourself-and-your-family), but I thought this article in Little Things did a…