Emergency management teams have had their hands full in 2018 and it looks like 2019 might be another year for an increased number and severity of natural disasters. Accordingly, emergency management has become a hot topic in regard to budgets and responsibilities....
Over the past ten years alone, we have seen an increase in natural disasters across the nation, from the fires on the west coast to the tornadoes in the midwest. It is not only the first responders that have many responsibilities, but also the Federal Emergency...
Natural disasters aren’t known for their convenience. They don’t cater to our schedules; instead they often strike with little to no warning. They can defy predictions and deviate from historic patterns. Disasters — like the damage they cause — are pure...
Over the past 20 years, 7,000 natural disasters have killed 1.35 million worldwide. Around 90% of those deaths occurred in lesser developed countries which lack the resources to protect vulnerable populations from flooding, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other disasters....
In 1947, meteorologists in Washington, D.C. repurposed World War II military radar dishes to detect the formation of thunderstorms. Throughout the following decades, that technology was refined into sophisticated Doppler radar, which–by bouncing microwave...
