#Disaster

elishadacey

elishadacey

Good morning Winnipeg.Got a message overnight that I'm not going to respond directly to (because it was mean and unnecessary) but a bit of a thread, if you'll permit me.

Alok Bhatt

alok_bhatt

The natural disasters in Himalayas are simply unavoidable. Initial casualties will happen as soon as disaster strikes. It is just like case of terror attack- where those at the gates

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

World needs to know. A text this evening from colleague in middle income country. "We have a disaster here. Hospitals overwhelmed, critical oxygen shortages, soaring COVID numbers. New variant SARS-

Purple Row

PurpleRow

In retrospect, the Rockies’ handling of Arenado is a masterclass in organizational failure. *Develop a generational talent. *Make him the face of your franchise. *Sign him to a big contract

Irène DB

UrbanFoxxxx

An extreme form of 'kamikaze loggias', informal structures characteristic of post-Soviet Tbilisi. Anarchic, vernacular extensions of Soviet buildings have been created since the 1990s, and now preside over the collective

Christopher Flavelle

cflav

One interesting point about Biden’s climate team: so far it lacks anybody with a strong background in adaptation policy, despite the rising toll of disasters. (1/x)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/climate/biden-cabinet-mccarthy-granholm

Andy Kopsa

andykopsa

#Derecho2020 thread - NERD EDITION - I will eschew my bona fides as an Iowan and get right to it: There is nothing precluding Governor Reynolds asking for a federal

Derek Thorne

dfthorne1

Interesting paper on the Rana Plaza disaster, photography and accountability from @nomhossain and Ismail Ferdous. https://accountabilityresearch.org/publication/picturing-accountability-what-we-learned-from-the-photography-of-the-rana-plaza

Awais Azhar

Awais_CRP

Lets be clear on what’s happening here: in the middle of severe snow storms & power outages Texas Republican officials are making a move to bolster the oil/gas industry and

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

1. So, I think reasonable people can agree that Trump was one of the worst presidents in American history, totally unfit for any position of authority and he presided over

Jacob Dickey, 7News

jacobdickeywx

Hurricane Zeta and the Oklahoma Ice Storm happened around the same time.Zeta knocked ~3 million customers outIce storm knocked ~ 300,000 customers outToday's numbers;Southeast: ~155,000Oklahoma: ~142,000Oklahoma has been forgotten about

Matt Glassman

MattGlassman312

People who think the job of a member of Congress during a local natural disaster is purely performative have definitely never been around a member of Congress during a local

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

For anyone curious it's a complete misstatement/misunderstanding of the how the government operates to claim that only Govs and Mayors are hands on players in a major disaster. Reps and

Melissa Noriega

MelissaNoriega

It took Houston a while to get organized after Hurricane Harvey, but we did it, w #lessonslearned. We had committees at the city & county level that set up neighborhood

Michael Foster

thisisfoster

Megathread...Would you run for your life or just stand on the beach as a gigantic tsunami rushed towards you?You’d run, right? Don’t be so sure.During the Boxing Day Tsunami, many

Shelley Kath 🌊 🇺🇸 🌊 🇨🇦 🌊 🌎 🌊

SLKath

#OVEarth will be highlighting the Trump administration's environmental rollbacks with the hope that @Transition46 takes notice and reverses all of them once @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris take office. We will highlight

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