
by Michael Knight Hats off to Tom Banse of the Northwest News Network. He has just written an excellent piece on “Northwest States Mapping Liquefaction Susceptibility.” And that means if you live in Oregon, Washington or Idaho, you may be living on ground that will turn to sludge and rock your world in a big [...]
July 5 2012 Portland Preparedness Center With three thousand temperature records broken in the past week alone, hundreds of thousands still without power, drought conditions affecting 50 per cent of the country, massive solar flares on their way, and the price of wheat, corn, soybeans and meat set to soar this summer, America is under [...]
Another Bow Shot June 04 2012 Because of the latest blast of solar wind from the sun, NOAA is forecasting significant disturbances in Earth’s magnetic field between June 5 – 7. They say there’s a 60% chance that these will be severe in high latitudes, and a 40% chance they’ll be “active” at mid-latitudes. You’d [...]
May 18 2012 Immediately after Japan’s Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant was destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami, releasing untold amounts of radiation into the soil, air, ground water and the ocean, US Secretary iof State Hilary Clinton is reported to have signed an agreement saying that the US would continue to import foodstuffs from Japan. [...]
They might say hope for the best, but sometimes it’s best to Prepare For The Worst Hundreds of thousands of ticked off people are taking to the streets and the polling booths in Europe to show their rage at the austerity measures being planned by those who got their countries into debt in the first [...]
Posted on 21 February 2013
Fast Growing Sunspot, AR1678 NASA is reporting that “The bottom two black spots on the sun (image at left), known as sunspots, appeared quickly over the course of Feb. 19-20, 2013. These two sunspots are part of the same system and are over six Earths across.” Spaceweather advises CHANCE OF FLARES: New sunspot AR1678 has developed a delta-class [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 21 February 2013
From Bosnia - The Real Deal Much as we’d all like to believe that it’s going to be a year of perfect weather, perfect political harmony, and perfect love of our fellow man throughout the world, all of which are worthy ideals, current events and history itself tell us otherwise. Therefore, this week I am passing on [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 18 February 2013
Po odkupie następnego domu normalnie nadchodzi termin na wybranie szafek do niego, wiele osób głowi się nad tym jakie szafki wyłowić do kuchni czy też pokoju , mają to być meble kuchenne Warszawa na zamówienie czy też może jakieś powszechne meble z dużego sklepu. Jest to kłopot w kwestii większości ludzi bowiem meble kuchenne świadczone [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 18 February 2013
Stolica polski jest jednym z najaktywniej rozrastających się miast w Polsce, działanie na to ma nie zaledwie trzymanie statusu stolicy ale również wielce zaradni mieszkańcy. Większa część osób pracujących w warszawie prowadzi własną aktywność ekonomiczną, są to osoby pracujące cyklicznie przez co niemiara godzin codziennie, dominującymi cechami osób tego rodzaju jest pracowitość oraz pilność i [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 17 February 2013
Poprawnie urządzona kuchnia to podstawa w mieszkaniu. Powinno się, chociaż zdawać sobie sprawę z tego, że zakupienie tanich urządzeń wcale nie musi być prawdziwą ekonomicznością. Faber to przedsiębiorstwo, które tworzy i wciela w kuchniach naprawdę błyskotliwe funkcje elektroniczne ułatwiające zwykłe bytowanie, ale również funkcjonowanie w większych kuchniach takich jak między innymi restauracyjne. Decydując się na [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 15 February 2013
Updated: 9:10AM 2/15/13 A nine-tonne meteor streaked across the sky above Russia’s Ural Mountains Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and injuring hundreds, possibly nearly a thousand people. An even bigger chunk of space rock about the size of a jet plane is set to zip between the Earth and our weather satellites on Friday afternoon, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 15 February 2013
UPDATED: 11:49PM This amazing video records the explosion and impact of the meteor. ON the eve of the closest Astroid flyby in recorded history a series of explosions in the skies of Russia’s Urals region, reportedly caused by a meteorite shower, has sparked panic in three major cities. Witnesses said that houses shuddered, windows were blown out and [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 14 February 2013
Oregon’s Earthquake Commission has released a report on what it will mean when the next Cascadia Earthquake lets go and the Pacific Plate diving below the North American Plate gives way. See The Oregon Resilience Plan It points out what we emergency managers know. It will be a day etched in our brains, life changing in [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 09 February 2013
When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, one victim was political scientist Daniel Aldrich. He had just moved to New Orleans. Late one August night, there was a knock on the door. “It was a neighbor who knew that we had no idea of the realities of the Gulf Coast life,” said Aldrich, who is now [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 09 February 2013
We often talk at the Portland Preparedness Center with people who just do not understand how long we will be with out services, most expect the federal government to be there in the next 72 hours, but this is just not the case. A 9.0+ earthquake could affect the entire subduction zone, as we saw [...] Continue Reading
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