Be sure to follow the progress of Hurricane Florence at TalkWeather.com . Our dedicated members of weather enthusiasts and metrologists provide updates and tracking information as the hurricane approaches the United States. As residents of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia are bracing for the impact of category 4 Hurricane Florence later this week, some are finding that store shelves are already becoming barren of essential items. The fact that this storm was so quickly identified and tracked means that people are taking the warnings seriously and are already preparing for the damaging wind and possible flooding that can occur with a storm
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Why The Zello App Is NOT A Good Idea During Or After A Storm
As Irma approached Florida this past week, I’ve seen numerous tweets and facebook posts about downloading the Zello app for emergency communications if you are trapped after the storm hits. If you did not evacuate or need help for #Irma, download the Zello app and follow the “Hurricane Irma” channel. — Rogue NASA (@RogueNASA) September 9, 2017 Worse yet are now a flood of posts and tweets saying that Zello will work without data service. This has caused so much of an issue in Puerto Rico that the app developer had to post out a warning. There is a massive
Continue readingBuilding A Kit For Emergencies
As a resident of the southeast, you can often be surprised with what Mother Nature has around the corner. Many of us learned that lesson the hard way with the tornado super outbreak of April of 2011. A lot of people including myself were caught off guard with the power outages that lasted for weeks in some areas. With Hurricane Irma making landfall in Florida and eventually making her way north to my home near Huntsville, I decided to spend Sunday checking my emergency kit. A lot of times people over think an emergency kit and suddenly the list of
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