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Month: August 2012

Disaster

Isaac Through Your Lens: After the Storm

by Kristiana Almeida August 31, 2012

Some of the pictures we have seen from the ground in the wake of Hurricane Isaac have been jaw dropping, mind blowing, and heart breaking. We’ve shared that we’re on …

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Disaster

Social Media and Mobile apps motivate people to prepare

by Wendy Harman August 31, 2012August 31, 2012

We’ve just released our 3rd annual social data survey that asks the American public how they use social platforms during emergencies. 2011 survey ; 2011 infographic     Error happened.

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Disaster

Isaac Through Your Lens

by Kristiana Almeida August 30, 2012September 4, 2012

As we were watching the Isaac start to make landfall on the Gulf Coast, we noticed you started to post a flurry of photos. Here are a few of the …

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Isaac: 2 landfalls in my first deployment

by James Williams August 28, 2012

As the regional communicator for the Wichita, Kan. area, hurricanes aren’t something I normally have to worry about. In three days, I will have been through the landfall of a …

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Health & Safety

West Nile Virus 101

by Erin Ferris August 28, 2012

Like most people, I can’t stand mosquitoes. My kids and I are both mosquito magnets and extremely sensitive to mosquito bites, so we spend the majority of our time outdoors …

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Disaster

Hurricane Camille

by Susan Watson August 28, 2012

Forty-three years ago, on August 17, 1969, Hurricane Camille made landfall on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama as a Category 5 storm, causing extensive damage and fatalities. …

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Disaster

Isaac Update

by Wendy Harman August 24, 2012

We are in full-forward leaning mobilization for Isaac now. Here’s what’s happening in Haiti, and here’s how we’re readying people and supplies in Florida and the Gulf Coast. We offered …

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Disaster, Health & Safety, International

Surfing Report

by Wendy Harman August 23, 2012September 8, 2016

Stuff we’ve found while looking around the internet. Some of it is Red Cross related, some of it isn’t.

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Disaster

Isaac

by Wendy Harman August 23, 2012August 23, 2012

We’re closely following the social conversations around Isaac.

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Military Support

Honoring One of the 2,000

by Suzy DeFrancis August 22, 2012August 22, 2012

Editor’s note: The New York Times reported yesterday that the war in Afghanistan has now caused 2,000 deaths of US military personnel. The news hit like a thud. My son, …

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