Around here we’re pretty focused on the 3 step emergency preparedness process Get a kit Make a plan Stay informed but if you think about it, we prepare for all sorts of life events every day. Just this morning I moved some chicken from my freezer to my fridge because I was preparing for dinner. [...]
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Check out this amazing data visualization tool some smarties at MIT came up with. They call it Personas. Try putting in “American Red Cross.” The results are incredible. Hat tip: @momanmars
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Find Hurricane Bill water safety tips and keep an eye on our Disaster Online Newsroom through the weekend. Court Ogilvie explains how the American Red Cross is preparing for Hurricane Bill how you can stay safe while the storm is off our east coast how to prepare for it yourself
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Have you seen Bandslam? It’s a new movie whose IMDB plot summary says: A new kid in town assembles a fledgling rock band — together, they achieve their dreams and compete against the best in the biggest event of the year, a battle of the bands. We’ve seen one of the stars of this [...]
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I’m a fan of blogging so you can imagine my excitement last month when Meg Hourihan, one of the people who invented blogging, tweeted that she was in a Red Cross CPR/AED class. As if that wasn’t enough, the Megnut writer used her newly brushed-up skills today when she helped a woman named Emily. I [...]
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Welcome to the Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you… [The place names link to maps so that you can get a quick idea of the region.] TAIWAN: Red Crossers continue to support search and rescue efforts after Typhoon [...]
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From The Muse in Music comes news that on August 18, 1959 Dave Brubeck and his Quartet recorded Take Five, an eternally cool sonic tonic for an endless summer night. Desmond left his royalties from the song, the first million-selling jazz single in Billboard’s Hot 100 history, to the American Red Cross.
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One of our favorite blogs, Urlesque, celebrates every Tuesday with a time-lapse post. Yesterday he featured this lightning storm in Toronto. Toronto Lightning Storm from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo. Do you know how to stay safe during a lightning storm? Check out this info: Thunderstorm
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While we were in a meeting discussing Hurricane Bill (who our Facebook friends have dubbed Wild Bill) this morning, I noticed Ann Curry’s tweet: She’s right on. We don’t know exactly what Wild Bill is going to do out there, but he’s a big storm and will most likely cause rip tides and crazy coastal [...]
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The Sun Journal in Lewiston, Maine, got some video from a Red Cross shelter yesterday:
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