Teachers at a New South Wales (NSW) south coast school thought their young students were coping well after the Black Summer bushfires–until wild winds swept through the playground. Royal Far West chief executive Jacqui Emery was at the school after the catastrophic fires as part of the rural children’s charity wellbeing program in disaster-affected regions….
ADF Disaster Response May Be Impacting Recruitment
Senior defence officials concede the increased assistance of Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel during natural disasters may be impacting recruitment and retention. Air Vice Marshal Stephen Chappell has told a parliamentary inquiry into the country’s disaster resilience ADF responses to events like bushfires and floods are becoming unsustainable due to their increasing frequency. As well…
Your Pets Need an Emergency Plan, Too
Preparing our homes and families for natural disasters and severe weather is a well-known subject here at Everyday Cheapskate. We talk about it a lot because it’s so very important. But what about your pets? Are your pets prepared to face and survive disaster? According to ServiceMaster Restore, 83 percent of pet owners live in…
Electric Vehicles May Present Major Problem During Natural Disaster Evacuations: Experts
August 9, 2022
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The push to transition the national road fleet to electric vehicles (EVs) is on and while increasingly popular with buyers, experts in the transportation space are examining potential problems with mass EV adoption. One such issue involves EVs and evacuations during natural disasters. A report from Transportation Research published in ScienceDirect headlined “Can we evacuate from…
Natural Disasters Caused $145 Billion in Damages Across US in 2021
By Brian K. Sullivan From Bloomberg News Natural disasters killed 688 people across the U.S last year and caused more than $145 billion of losses, the third-highest tally in records going back to 1980, a government report showed. There were twenty disasters that exceeded $1 billion of losses each, according to the National Centers for…
Los Angeles County Is Riskiest Area in the US: FEMA
Los Angeles County has been named as the riskiest county in the United States, according to a new Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) index that examines 18 types of natural disasters, including earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes, floods, volcanoes and tsunamis. Of the more than 3,000 U.S. counties surveyed, Los Angeles County ranked highest in FEMA’s…
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