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Be a Force of Nature.

Every year, people in this country and in many others are killed or seriously injured by all kinds of extreme weather, despite previous warnings. 

In StormCatcher we develop community resilience in the face of increasing vulnerability to extreme weather and water events. As part of the Weather-Ready Nation iniciative, NOAA and along with its parrtners wants to motivate individuals and communities to take actions that will prepare them in the event of a weather disaster.

However, NOAA and its partners can´t do it alone. A key member of the team is the public. That is why we are encouraging everyone to do their part. We ask everyone toBe a Force of Nature“.

Be a Force of Nature by knowing your risk, taking action and being an example in your community.

 

KNOW YOUR RISK

Hurricanes, droughts, tornadoes, snowstorms, flooding - severe weather impacts every part of the country. The first step to becoming weather-ready is to understand the type of hazardous weather that an affect whaere you live and work, and how the weather could impact you and your family. What you can do.

  1. Stay informed of the latest CONAGUA weather forecast.
  2. Follow official information media such as the National Weather Service Facebook  y Twitter.
  3. Develop an eviction plan.

TAKE ACTION

Be a Force of Nature by making sure that you and your family are prepared for severe weather. This includes creating a disaster supplies kit and making sure that you can receive emergency messages. 

  1. Prepare a supply kit. Make a list of items to replenish your hurriane supplies and start getting them before hurricane season begins. 
  2. Get verification of your insurance. Keep inmind that homeowne´s insurance policies do not include flood coverrage. Flood policies require a 30-day waiting period!
  3. Strenthen your home. Make sure it is under lical building codes. Remember, the garage door is the most vulnerable part of the house, and it needs to be able to resist strong winds. 

BE AN EXAMPLE

Be a positive influencie on your community b sharing your weather preparedness story. "Be a Force of Nature" by letting your friends and family kwon what you did to become weather-ready it is very important to ask your friends and family if they are already prepared. What you can do.

  1. Ask your friends and family if they are ready. On many occasions it happens that our close relatives have not prepared, so it is important to share your actions to take.
  2.  Help your neighbor. Many people, and especially the elderly, depend on the assistance of their neighbors before and after the hurricanes.
  3. Complete yout written plan. Writing a plan will help you avoid mistakes when you face an emergency and will ensure that everyone in your home is prepared for the next storm.

Credits: NOAA

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uncapped heroin from Hurricane Dorian.

Chella Phillips saved 97 dogs from dying.

As everyone knows The Bahamas has been viralized by that intense hurricane Dorian , a hurricane that will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the most devastating hurricanes so far in the Hurricane Season 2019 . You know now that the passage of the hurricane destroyed people's homes, flooded the streets and caused the death of at least five inhabitants.

Given the authorities' warning that the weather phenomenon would hit the Caribbean islands, residents prepared as best they could, bought groceries, and took refuge in shelters or their homes. But a woman named Chella Phillips worried not only about keeping her safe, but about street dogs that would have no place to shelter.

He opened the doors of his home to 97 ownerless canines so that they could be safe during hurricane storms.

CHELLA PHILLIPS.

Chella Phillips had to share her room with 79 dogs, but that was the easiest part of having rescued them. Keeping them and their brother who accompanied her in their shelter safe was difficult. The first night Dorian's eye fell on the Bahamas, rain began to flood his home. They used three pumps to drain the water but it was not enough and the liquid exceeded them . After an hour of relentless trying, all of the machinery had overheated and burned, so they had to try to scoop the water out, but they failed entirely.

They ran out of services and their TV broke down from the lightning of the storms that hit the area, so she couldn't use the cartoons to entertain the dogs that were inside her house, and she won't be able to do until you get a new one.

Despite the complications experienced, the Chella was able to keep the 97 dogs safe, with food and water.

Phillips is the director of The Voiceless Dogs of Nassau, a dog shelter in the Bahamas. "I am not affiliated with the Humane Society nor do I receive any kind of government aid. Only me and my love for these homeless dogs is what I do ", he says in the description on his Facebook page.

For eleven years, when she moved to the archipelago, she has been dedicated to helping street animals and four years ago she opened the refuge. During that time, with his own money and donations, he has managed to help 1,000 street dogs.

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Hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters

Hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters obey the same mathematical patterns.

Taking note of the magnitude of various catastrophic natural phenomena and plotting on a graph how many episodes of each of them have occurred throughout history, the result is not unpredictable. Quite the contrary, it follows a very well-defined curve in which, luckily, the greater their devastating capacity, the less frequently they convert.

For example, very few earthquakes become catastrophic, while numerous small earthquakes or earthquakes continually occur that most of them are so weak that they go unnoticed by people and can only be detected by very sensitive instruments. But this information is essential to calculate the associated risks.

However, this dependency is not always the same or conforms to the same mathematical function, particularly with respect to larger events. Álvaro Corral and Álvaro González, researchers from the Center for Mathematical Research (CRM) and the Department of Mathematics of the UAB, have carried out an accurate statistical analysis of a whole set of natural phenomena that can cause disasters: Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Forest fires, Meteorite impacts in the atmosphere, torrential rains and subsidence of the ground.

After analyzing the data of thousands of episodes of different intensity of each one of these phenomena, these researchers have managed to describe with the same mathematical technique the functions that relate the frequency of these phenomena to the value of their magnitude or size. Most of them follow the so-called power law , according to which the events are more and more abundant the smaller they are, without having a “normal” or typical size

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Disappearance of El Niño, with it will come strong cyclonic activity: specialist

The peak of the hurricane season begins in late August

The current season has behaved weakly, but it is not necessary to let your guard down , since the phenomenon of El Niño is close to disappearing and with this it will begin to take more forces cyclonic activity in the Atlantic Ocean.

The meteorologist of the Institutional Committee for the Attention of Extreme Meteorological Phenomena of the UADY, Juan Vázquez Montalvo, pointed out that, so far, the hurricane season has developed very weakly, presenting only one event in advance, in May, with the formation of the Hurricane Andrea and Barry, this month.

Danger

Vázquez Montalvo recalled that it is precisely in September when the Yucatan Peninsula has been vulnerable to major cyclones such as Gilberto and Isidoro, which hit the State in September.

“Since we no longer have the El Niño phenomenon, we will be in neutral conditions with tendencies for La Niña to form. During this period, the trend is to have explosive cyclone growth, which has not happened until now, "he insisted.

In this sense, he explained that El Niño with its cutting winds does not allow cyclones to form and there is an erratic behavior as it happened with Barry, which did not allow it to develop.

source: sipse.com

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2019, A YEAR WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF EXTREME METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA

The rainy season and tropical cyclones will begin on May 15, according to experts.

 

Mexico.- This year in the Pacific seas a weak El Niño phenomenon will be registered, which will generate a large number of extreme weather events and we must be ready to face them, warned Blanca Jiménez, director of the National Water Commission (Conagua).

During her participation in the inter-institutional meeting held at the National Center for Disaster Prevention (Cenapred), the environmental engineer stressed that we must be prepared for the imminent rainy season and tropical cyclones, which will begin on May 15 and end on November 30.

In order to establish the most appropriate lines of action to be applied before, during and after of a possible emergency, the proposal is to work, in a coordinated manner and putting aside any partisan affiliation, between the three levels of government , as well as establishing closer and closer communication with the population, added David León Romero, national coordinator of Civil Protection.

According to UNAM Global, to consolidate this strategy, the so-called Inter-institutional Analysis and Coordination Group for Tropical Cyclones was established, consisting of:

  • Ministry of Public Security (SSP)
  • Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT)
  • Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT)
  • Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA)
  • Secretary of the Navy (SEMAR)
  • Federal Electricity Commission (CFE)

“We are working together and in a preventive way before the next season of tropical cyclones and rains. Therefore, in addition to operating as a team, we are reviewing the coordination, information and communication mechanisms between institutions in order to respond to any emergency before, during and after, ”they reported.

On May 15 the number of hurricanes that are calculated in the country will be announced in a meeting in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero.

The coordinator explained that in order to face these contingencies and lessen their impacts, a plan articulated in three axes is contemplated: prevention, preparation and communication.

 

source: SIPSE.COM