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2020 #disasters in review: January, Australian bushfires. Lesson: failure to plan for disasters (specifically, officials there failed to take advice to get more air tankers in country ahead of fire season) has an impact. https://twitter.com/RAAF_ACAUST/status/1213982043945570306
2020 #disasters in review: January, first global awareness of mystery SARS-like disease in Wuhan. Lesson: sometimes, you can see the bus coming, but you can't get out of the way. https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1214317652643962880?s=20
2020 #disasters in review: January, massive floods in Indonesia. Lesson: increased rainfall intensity combined with infrastructure failure will continue to get worse, we need to better prepare to deal with similar storms https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1214192396042260480?s=20
2020 #disasters in review: February, massive #locust swarms sweep across East Africa. Lesson: climate disruption (in this case, excessive rainfall) is not just a problem for your condo in Miami https://twitter.com/RobbieGramer/status/1233011090809872385?s=20
2020 #disasters in review: May, unusual number and intensity of wildfires in #arctic, particularly in #Siberia. Lesson: don't ignore what's going on in the Arctic, those impacts ripple to the rest of the world. https://twitter.com/tonyveco/status/1266406498252488711?s=20
2020 #disasters in review: May, widespread civil unrest in the United States over race and policing. https://twitter.com/RyanFaircloth/status/1266220318093389830?s=20
2020 #disasters in review: June, more extreme rainfall (Corsica). https://twitter.com/Mediavenir/status/1271046949555363841?s=20
2020 #disastesr in review: June, even more extreme rainfall (India, Bangladesh). https://twitter.com/jnmet/status/1277649466502328322?s=20
2020 #disasters in review: June, first of one of several California cities with major destruction due to wildfire (Niland, California - 40 homes) https://twitter.com/KESQ/status/1277598483395088384?s=20
2020 #disasters in review: June, Amazon fires at a 13-year high. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-53262565
2020 #disasters in review: July, massive rainfall and flooding in #Japan. Lesson: even industrialized countries can and will be impacted by extreme rainfall. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-floods/flood-death-toll-hits-20-as-japan-warned-of-more-rainfall-idUSKBN24604A?il=0
2020 #disasters in review: July, USS Bonhomme Richard catches fire in San Diego. (More recently, decided they will scrap the ship, too expensive to fix) https://twitter.com/USNavy/status/1283038584199614464?s=20
2020 #disasters in review: July, report says Arctic climate "going off the rails" https://twitter.com/capitalweather/status/1288573673818009603
2020 #disasters in review: August #derecho in the Midwest leaves Iowa families without communications, no power, no food. Lesson: political leadership matters, their local leaders failed to request aid from FEMA until weeks later https://twitter.com/DeanBakopoulos/status/1294344843452387328?s=20
2020 #disasters in review: August, #LakeFire is the first major wildfire in the Los Angeles area. https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1294386575187427328?s=20
