{"id":29130,"date":"2025-08-31T19:41:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29130"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:41:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:41:57","slug":"are-you-prepared-for-a-weather-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2025\/08\/are-you-prepared-for-a-weather-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you prepared for a weather disaster?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although we are currently in a quiet period as far as severe weather goes, the chance that a weather disaster will occur in the future are very high. The New York Times produced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/25\/well\/climate-change-survival-quiz.html\">a quiz<\/a> that tests your ability to make the best decisions to keep yourself and your family safe. Take it and see how you do. Then you can use the <a href=\"https:\/\/fieldreport.caes.uga.edu\/publications\/B1585-01\/three-must-have-emergency-kits-to-pack-before-a-hurricane-or-flood\/\">UGA list of three must-have emergency kits<\/a> to pack before you have to evacuate for a hurricane or flood to help your family get ready for that future disaster. You are much more likely to stay safe and to recover quickly from a disastrous event if you have prepared ahead of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/FEMA_-_1341_-_Photograph_by_Dave_Gatley_taken_on_03-03-1998_in_California.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/FEMA_-_1341_-_Photograph_by_Dave_Gatley_taken_on_03-03-1998_in_California.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/FEMA_-_1341_-_Photograph_by_Dave_Gatley_taken_on_03-03-1998_in_California.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/FEMA_-_1341_-_Photograph_by_Dave_Gatley_taken_on_03-03-1998_in_California-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/FEMA_-_1341_-_Photograph_by_Dave_Gatley_taken_on_03-03-1998_in_California-208x138.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flooding from El Nino, CA Mar 1998.  Source: Dave Gatley, FEMA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although we are currently in a quiet period as far as severe weather goes, the chance that a weather disaster will occur in the future are very high. The New York Times produced a quiz that tests your ability to make the best decisions to keep yourself and your family safe. Take it and see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":3117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29131,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29130\/revisions\/29131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}