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Wonder how Alpena County, Michigan is doing. They announced door-to-door welfare checks yesterday.... (ice storm from 4 days ago!)
Alpena County will be conducting door to door wellness checks of our residents. To request a specific location/person be checked, click this link and complete the form https://forms.gle/jryUmMKBNtiQXDx8A To speed the process of door to door checks, hang a white item on your door if you're ok or a red item if you need help. Also see Alpena County website.
The Eyewall: Potential for catastrophic flooding by the weekend in the Mid-South and near the Ohio Valley
"...The National Weather Service in Paducah, KY did not mince words this afternoon in their briefing on the upcoming rainstorm across the Ohio Valley: “Significant and potentially historic rainfall will begin Wednesday afternoon, with numerous rounds of heavy rain continuing into the first half of the weekend, leading to potentially catastrophic flash flooding.”
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The Eyewall · Potential for catastrophic flooding by the weekend in the Mid-South and near the Ohio ValleyThe National Weather Service in Paducah, KY did not mince words this afternoon in their briefing on the upcoming rainstorm across the Ohio Valley: “Significant and potentially historic rainfall wil…
A 63-year-old woman has been pulled out from under the rubble alive more than three days after an earthquake struck Myanmar. Read more from @ABCNews@flipboard.com
https://flip.it/_V14Fg
#Myanmar #Earthquake #Disaster #Aid
ABC News · Woman pulled alive out of Myanmar earthquake rubble after 91 hours: Officials
BBC: Mandalay was the 'city of gold' - now it reeks of death
"...So many corpses have piled up since a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck last Friday close to Mandalay, that they have had to be "cremated in stacks", one resident says...."
www.bbc.comMandalay was the 'city of gold'. Now it reeks of dead bodiesResidents in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city, speak of despair and sleepless nights since last week's earthquake.
The Guardian: Myanmar earthquake death toll tops 2,000, as health system ‘overwhelmed’
WHO warns there is urgent need for care capacity, while US agency says number of dead could eventually exceed 10,000
The Guardian · Myanmar earthquake death toll tops 2,000, as health system ‘overwhelmed’
Plea for aviation fuel as flooded outback graziers brace for huge stock losses
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-31/floodwater-outback-qld-helicopters-drop-supplies/105114730
ABC News · Plea for aviation fuel as flooded outback graziers brace for huge stock losses
म्यांमार में7.7 तीव्रता का शक्तिशाली भूकंप, दक्षिण-पूर्व एशिया में हलचल
https://www.newsfeedindia.in/2025/03/7-7-magnitude-earthquake-hits-myanmar-thailand.html
#MyanmarEarthquake #Thailand #Earthquake #BreakingNews #Disaster #RescueEfforts #SeismicActivity #NaturalDisaster #StaySafe
At least 24 dead, 1300-year-old #temple destroyed as worst #wildfires in #Korean #history rampage across areas of South #Korea: #news #Asia #disaster https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/world/video/south-korea-wildfires-temple-destroyed-digvid
CNN · 1,300-year-old temple destroyed in deadly South Korea wildfires | CNNAuthorities in South Korea are fighting what they call one of the country’s “worst-ever” wildfires. More than 20 people have died and a 1,300-year-old Buddhist landmark has been destroyed.
#DHS Secy #KristiNoem [dog killer] told a Cabinet meeting Monday that the dept would move to “eliminate” the govt’s #disaster relief agency, #FEMA, days after #Trump signed an EO directing state & local govnts to “play a more active & significant role” in responding to catastrophes.
#Noem, whose dept oversees FEMA, has previously vowed to “get rid of FEMA the way it exists today”; Trump has said he would close the agency entirely, which would require an act of #Congress.
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2025/dhs-sec-kristi-noem-says-administration-will-move-to-eliminate-fema
www.semafor.com · DHS Sec. Noem says will move to ‘eliminate’ FEMA, a long-time Trump target
Deadly Botswana rains made more likely by climate change, rapid urbanization
Mongabay Environmental News · Deadly Botswana rains made more likely by climate change, rapid urbanizationUnusually heavy rainfall struck southern Botswana and eastern South Africa from Feb. 16-20, flooding cities and killing at least 31 people. In Botswana, the government said nearly 5,500 people were affected, and more than 2,000 people evacuated. A new rapid study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA), a team of international climate scientists analyzing extreme […]
> Even if help is on the way, it may not come quickly. That has prompted people to step in, an informal response that has grown more organized with each crisis. “We all need to be our own first responders because these things are happening really, really fast,” Zegre said.
https://grist.org/extreme-weather/we-know-what-its-like-how-appalachian-towns-are-learning-to-help-each-other-after-floods/
#USPol #MutualAid #Crisis #Disaster
Grist · ‘We know what it’s like’: How Appalachian towns are learning to help each other after floods
The toll from a fire that ripped through a nightclub in North Macedonia hosting a locally popular hip-hop duo has risen to 59, the Balkan country's interior minister said on Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/16/world/macedonia-hip-hop-gig-blaze/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #northmacedonia #hiphop #disaster #fire
The Japan Times · Toll in Northern Macedonia hip-hop gig blaze rises to 59: interior minister
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I’m currently reading Saltblood by TC Parker—rather fitting for the Ides of March, don’t you think? What’s in your hands today? 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CGGWNX6
Bluesky: @tcparker.bsky.social
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The captain of the Solong cargo ship arrested after a collision with a tanker in the North Sea is a Russian national, the ship's owner has confirmed.
www.bbc.comFire on Stena Immaculate out after North Sea collision, says co-ownerThe cargo ship Solong and the tanker Stena Immaculate collided off East Yorkshire on Monday.
Today in Labor History March 12, 1928: The St. Francis Dam failed in Los Angeles, California, killing 431 people. It is the second deadliest disaster in California, after the 1906 earthquake, and one of the worst U.S. civil engineering disasters ever. A defective foundation and design flaws caused the failure. Yet, the inquest absolved chief engineer, William Mulholland, of all criminal responsibility, and he continued to earn a salary from the Bureau of Public Works (though his career was effectively ended). The authorities continued to find the remains of victims of the flood until the mid-1950s. Many of the victims were washed out to sea. Some washed ashore as far south as Mexico. Mulholland was also the designer of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct, which sucks water from the Owens Valley and is a major cause of the depletion of the fragile Mono Lake. As its water levels continues to decline, it threatens the world’s second largest gull rookery, home to up to 50,000 birds. The aqueduct’s construction, and the shady methods Mulholland used to acquire the water rights, led to the California Water Wars between L.A. County and Owens Valley farmers. Many of those same Anglo farmers (or their predecessors) usurped the land from Piute people during the 1863 Owens Valley Indian War, which was precipitated, in part, by the vast loss of human and cattle lives, and the displacements, caused by the Megaflood of 1861, which inundated much of the West, from Idaho and Oregon, down to northern Baja California. The corruption related to the construction of the aqueduct has been portrayed in the film Chinatown, and in the nonfiction book, “Cadillac Desert.”
For more on the Megaflood of 1861, please read my article, “Worse Than the Big One”: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2023/01/04/worse-than-the-big-one-californias-coming-megaflood-2/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #flood #dam #mulholland #monolake #owensvalley #disaster #nativeamerican #indigenous #piute #ecology #chinatown #indianwar #habitatdestruction #books #nonfiction #author #writer #losangeles @bookstadon
14 years since #Fukushima #nuclear disaster: #Greenpeace statement
March 11, 2025
Tokyo, Japan – "14 years have passed since the #GreatEastJapanEarthquake and the #FukushimaDaiichi nuclear #disaster devastated the northeast region of Japan. #GreenpeaceJapan extends heartfelt condolences to the victims and their families who are still suffering the aftermath of this devastating catastrophe."
Read more:
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/73383/14-years-since-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-greenpeace-statement/
#FukushimaIsntOver #RethinkNotRestart #WaterIsLife #NoMoreFukushimas #NoMoreChernobyls #Tohuku #Earthquake #StopNucléaire #Nucléaire #EnergiesRenouvelables #AntiAtom #NoNukes #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #Nucleaire #AtomkraftNeinDanke #Anniversaire311
Greenpeace International14 years since Fukushima nuclear disaster: Greenpeace statement - Greenpeace InternationalGreenpeace Japan extends heartfelt condolences to the victims and their families who are still suffering the aftermath of this devastating catastrophe.
Like most sequels, Trump 2 has become a predictable flop that has worldwide audiences wondering how it ever made it to the White House a second time.