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Posted on November 29, 2011 Comments Off

New Reality: Innocous High Tide Floods Street [video]

Delaware Sea Grant has released a great short video showing how a little (offshore) storm plus a high tide can affect a seemingly safe street. Take a short break and watch. Expect a lot more like this as we see more sea level rise., »read more

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Posted on October 6, 2011 Comments Off

What’s the Relationship Between Climate Change and Extreme Weather?

Some scientists give us the rundown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmJfsjYfVNU (From Climate, »read more

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Posted on September 6, 2011 Comments Off

No Budget? No Problem. Group Makes Hurricane Safety PSAs on a Shoestring Budget

With no funding (and a little help from the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium), Mississippi's C-HOST (Coastal Hazard Outreach Strategy Team) group has created some great quick public service announcements. Below is one example, see the C-HOST videos page for more. (Does your group or community want its own StormSmart.org site? Let us, »read more

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Posted on April 21, 2011 0 Comments

Trying to Drive Climate Change Adaptation? Focus on Social, not Environmental Vision

Like most of us, I'd like to think that getting people the best information will drive them to make the right decisions. Certainly that's been a big drive behind StormSmart Coasts. Unfortunately, the evidence suggests that things aren't that simple. It's easy to find examples in our own lives of knowing better but still making less than logical decisions, »read more

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Posted on March 11, 2011 0 Comments

Horrible and Terrifying (Japanese Tsunami)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4w27IczOTk Wow. If you live anywhere near the ocean and this doesn't scare you, it probably should., »read more

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Posted on June 3, 2010 0 Comments

Gulf Spill Oil Coming to Atlantic?

What's the real worst case scenario for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill? What it the oil keeps gushing all summer? The New York Times is reporting that a team of scientists has run the models, and that the results aren't pretty. Nearly all of the simulations show oil heading into the Atlantic, and, perhaps, even making it over to Europe. However, the, »read more

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Posted on May 6, 2010 0 Comments

FEMA Releases New Mobile Website

Want FEMA assistance from your iPhone, Blackberry, or other smart phone? FEMA head Craig Fugate announced the launch of FEMA's new mobile website, m.fema.gov. FEMA says that the "mobile website makes it easier to access critical information regarding emergency preparedness and what to do before and after a disaster right on a smartphone." So far, it looks, »read more

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Posted on April 15, 2010 0 Comments

High Tech (and generally free) Tools for Disaster Preparation

Mashable has written a short article outlining some of the many ways that people can take advantage of the technology they already own (computers, smart-phones, etc) to help prepare themselves for natural disasters. Some of the ideas: Using Google My Maps to create evacuation maps (see video below for an intro on how to do this) Storing medical information, »read more

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Posted on March 10, 2010 0 Comments

Hindsight: Video of Galveston After the 1900 Hurricane

The Caffeinated Politics blog has chased down some fascinating old video footage of the famous 1900 Galveston Hurricane. This storm made landfall as a Category 4 Hurricane and caused somewhere between 6,000 and 12,000 deaths (the current population was 42,000), making it the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States. The footage below was, »read more

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Posted on February 10, 2010 0 Comments

Small-Town Cape Cod Also Losing Beaches VIDEO

Like California, eroding beaches on Cape Cod are threatening utilities, roads, and homes. (click on picture to watch video on NECN's site). Erosion Concerns on Cape Cod (via, »read more

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