#natural disaster

[lifewithchronicpain]

Climate change has made many natural disasters worse than they were before, especially hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, and flooding. So I am curious:

Please reblog for more votes!

In the Tags: you answer + general area you live in. No need to be too specific.

[without-ado]

Hurricane —Lisa and Martin l CIRA

[barnesandco]

My country, Pakistan,

is one-thirds underwater and over 30 million people have been displaced, the largest amount since partition. Over 1000 people have died, hundreds of them children. Countless more are left without shelter, food, water, and healthcare. The climate disaster is real and achingly tragic, right in front of my eyes. It's swallowing my country up and I don't know when it will stop. Even when the flooding stops, its consequences won't be over. People have lost their homes, their loved ones, their livelihoods. Pakistan is doing its best which is not even close to enough, so donations are much needed.

Personally, I am not donating to any politically-affiliated flood relief funds, and given the political corruption in this country, I advise others against it. But there are good people, good charities and NGOs doing their best to mitigate the effects. They are on the ground (and in the water) delivering crucial aid to those that need it. It's important to note that at the time of writing, 1 USD = 220 PKR, which buys a lot more than you know, so every dollar really does count. Here is are some trustworthy organizations that I recommend, if you can contribute:

1. Alkhidmat Foundation Pakistan

2. Doctors Without Borders Pakistan

3. Pakistan Red Crescent

If you can, please donate whatever possible. If not, please signal boost, and keep Pakistan in your prayers. Thank you ❤️

[conspiring-limabean]

I'm surprised I haven't seen any info posts about it yet but please have your hearts out for the wildfires in Hawaii. Towns have been abruptly destroyed in fast-moving fires and resources/firefighting aid have been difficult to deliver due to hurricane winds. When I wrote this 6 people were confirmed dead and within a day that count has already climbed to 36 (Thurs, 8/10/23).

I haven't been able to find any places to lend support to except some sources saying that the Maui Mutual Aid Fund is responding (but that may be because it's too soon for groups to organize support funds since afaik these wildfires sprouted out of nowhere in the span of 2 days), so please keep an eye out and share if you know of places to lend support

[ramgodd]

for some reason i havent seen a single person talking about this so far but

California is suffering from extensive power outages right now.

This is an estimated 14.7 million people without power

This is an outage map of nothern (Sacramento, San Francisco) and central (San Luis Obispo, Bakersfield) california.

Southern california (Los Angeles, San Diego) seems largely unaffected for now. This may change in the coming days.

This could mean days without power for many people, on top of severe flooding and wind speeds. The current expectations are wind speeds of ~60 mph, waves of 25 feet, landslides, and there's the potential for a coastal tornado.

This number may continue to grow.

Not to be all 'have us in your thoughts and prayers'-y, but the impact this storm could be catastrophic. This is going to devastate local communities. it's already flooding freeways and rivers, and some are being asked to evacuate.

* Direct Relief CA provides support to emergency services [x]

* GFM has a category for those affected by California's storms. In the coming days, this will likely be more active [x]

* NBC San Diego provides grants and emergency preparation for those affected by flooding [x] and you can donate to support victims here [x]

more resources TBA

[noctumbra]

Earthquake

On February 6th, 2023, on Monday morning, around 4:15AM (GMT +3), an earthquake happened in Turkiye, and a lot of people were caught off guard since they were asleep. 

The magnitude of the earthquake has been announced as 7.5, but later in the day, around 14:15PM, another earthquake has happened and this time it was 7.7. These earthquakes were the strongest that has ever happened in the southeast of Turkiye since 1939, and as I said above, many people were caught off guard. 

There had been many search and rescue operations, and still happening, but there isn’t enough people to help everyone who had been injured and trapped under the destroyed buildings. After these two (2) big earthquakes, there had been a lot of aftershocks, at least M4.4 and highest M6.0. These aftershocks had demolished whatever left from the damaged buildings and made the search and rescue operations even harder to proceed. 

The weather isn’t helping, either, because since the 1st of February, the snow has taken over the country and is more effective on the region where the earthquake happened. There are many, many cities where the search parties still could not reach and God knows how many dead. 

The current toll is:  1.541 dead, more than 10K wounded and more than 5K bulding are destroyed. 

People are in need of blankets, food, tent to stay in through the night as the buildings are very dangerous and there are still aftershocks happening, and diapers, water and hygenic peds. 

Please, if you are able to, consider helping my people by donating. You can donate money through the photos I will add below. Please reblog, so that this post can reach many many people. Thank you. 

[michinaaa]

the way 2024 just started and this is already happening

stay safe everyone, let's all send our hope to the people in affected areas :|||

[katy-l-wood]

GUESS WE’RE DOING THIS EARLY THIS YEAR. (Though, honestly, we never really stopped, did we?)

So. Let’s talk evacuation bags. This is specifically in relation to wildfires, but it can translate easily to other disasters.

A great resource is the Ready for Wildfire website. But I want to expand on their list just a little bit.

For your “grab and go we need to run in the next three minutes” bag you should have:

Face masks of some sort.

Snacks that you can just open and eat. More food if you have specific allergies and such that will make it difficult to eat at a shelter. At least a couple bottles of water. (Water is probably easier to just keep in your vehicle, if you have one, due to weight.)

A PAPER map marked with multiple evacuation routes. (Drive them ahead of time to get a feel for them.) Your phone could die or lose signal at any time. You need paper, and you need to know how to read it.

Prescriptions and other medications. Things like ibuprophen, tums, etc.. Some other general first aid supplies like bandaids and wound ointments are good to have as well. I also tossed one of my free C*VID tests in there this year.

Change of clothing. Try and have two if you can, one set of day clothes and one set of comfy night clothes. Plus several days worth of socks and underwear.

Extra glasses or contacts if you wear them.

An emergency creditcard and/or some cash.

Phone chargers including wall plugs. Even if cell towers go down/get overwhelmed your phone will still provide a flashlight, music, any documents you have saved on it, etc.

A jacket. Light or heavy, depending on the season at hand. Gloves and a hat if the current season is cold.

A battery powered radio with extra batteries or a crank/solar radio.

Pads/tampons if needed. Honestly, bring some even you personally don’t need them in case anyone else does.

Shampoo, conditioner, soap.

Copies of important documents.

Pet supplies including: Medications. Carriers. Leashes/harnesses. A few baggies and/or cans of food. A travel litterbox and a couple baggies of litter. Treats. A toy or two. Anti-stress sprays. Bowls.

A deck of cards. This isn’t really REQUIRED, but it is small and easy to tuck in so you can have something to help pass the time.

You need to have a version of all these things that is JUST for your emergency kit. It can’t be something you take back out to use, it all needs to just live in the kit. I keep all my human stuff in a big backpack, and all the pet stuff (minus the carriers) is in a little backpack. The backpacks and carriers all live in my coat closet right next to my front door.

This is the stuff you grab when you have no time. If you DO have a little time, then you can grab other things like family photos, computers, small valuables, etc.. But your life is NOT worth those things. One of the two people who died in the Marshall Fire died because he stayed behind to try and rescue his family history documents. Know what you’re going to grab, who is going to grab what if there’s more than you in your household, and what the evacuation plan is.

From my personal experience, the Twitter accounts for your local fire departments and county emergency services tend to have the most up-to-date information during an active disaster. Stay safe.

[miniar]

Volcanic eruption on the edge of town in Iceland

January 14th update.

Early this morning a crack opened up in the earth and lava started to spill out. This wasn't entirely unexpected but it's placement is the worst case scenario for a lot of people.

You, like the people who live in Grindavík, can watch the slow flow of molten earth towards the town live, on webcams that cover the area from a few angles, on either of these two links. Remember, these are people's homes, so, while bearing witness to nature's wrath is something we may want to do, know you're doing it along side the very people whose homes those are. Don't be a ghoul. Link 1 - Icelandic national broadcast

Link 2 - Morgunblaðið

Now let me go back a couple of days and cover some preamble.

A group of people have been working hard, building a low protective wall (think sandbagging but for lava, not water) and trying to fill in the massive crack in the earth in the Icelandic town of Grindavík when one of them went missing. His tools were spotted down the crack, but after a few days of searching, the authorities gave up on finding him. He's presumed dead, swallowed whole by the earth. This is the first death associated with the situation.

When the crack opened this morning it opened across the protective barrier they had been working on. Some effort was made to try and get the expensive machinery out, making several people watching on live feeds very very nervous, as the lava started running on both sides of this little barrier. A clear black split in the bright red heat of molten rock in the dark winter morning. No machines and no (more) workers were lost, but fear rose quickly. If the lava split the barrier then what of the town?

Before the question could even be asked "officially" enough to start formulating a swift answer, a second smaller tear in the earth opened on the town's side of the wall, far closer to the nearest street, the nearest home, than the previous larger crack.

People who had been struck with fear and a panicked hope that Something could be done to protect their homes watched as that hope was swiftly set ablaze.

The search for the missing man stopped just the day before yesterday, so this has been very quick, and while the previous situation was marked with repeated and intense earthquakes and a tiny spillage of lava that lasted less than a day, this was almost gentle. People didn't get a buildup of warning as pressure rose and the ground readied itself to spill forth it's contents, not the way they did before. It seems the pressure release of December just wasn't enough for a notable difference. The town of Grindavík stands empty right now. No one is in there, waiting for the slow flowing doom. But these are still people's homes. Everyone's been evacuated, but almost everyone had been hoping, and had begun waiting, to go HOME. They are watching this now. Wondering if their home will even exist tomorrow.

This is expected to be the worst volcanic event in Iceland since the eruption in Heimaey where a large portion of the settlement was entirely lost.

We rebuilt then and odds are we'll rebuild now, but everyone who's ever lost anything close to this degree knows that no matter how well you rebuild, no matter what well you replace what you've lost, what's lost is still Lost.

So, be kind, don't be a ghoul, and maybe take the moment to respect the fierce power of the earth we all have such tendency to take for granted, and be reminded of how even in places of peace, human life both physical and metaphorical, is so very, very, very fragile, that we should be treating it gently and not as disposable.

And if you want to donate to help the people of Grindavík, I suggest you donate to help the people of Palestine instead, or to a Transgender charity, or to any other people who are face man-made horrors instead. Your kindness is wonderful, but while this is a fucking disaster, it's one Iceland's familiar with, and it's only natural. You can't counterbalance mother earth, but you can counterbalance your fellow man.

[magz]

ID: Puerto Rico's profile on Power Outage U.S. website. Puerto Rico is 100% without power due to a transmission grid failure caused by Hurricane Fiona. Customers tracked and customers affected are both 1.4 million. Outage scale is 100% all over. End Of ID.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I wound up adopting around ten dogs and six cats after a natural disaster. Also maybe a monkey? They were all very, very good girls and boys and I miss them.

[aceofwhump]

9-1-1 6x18 "Pay It Forward"

[intersexfairy]

As someone (from the USA) who survived a severe hurricane, if there is one piece of advice I could give, PLEASE listen to any evacuation orders. This goes for voluntary and mandatory, but ESPECIALLY mandatory. If you can't get outside the evacuation zone, even just getting closer to the boundary is better than nothing.

If you are in a mandatory evacuation zone and you stay, no one (no emergency services) will be coming to save you. You will have to hunker down for however long the storm lasts.

The time to prepare for evacuation is as soon as you know you're under evacuation order, at LEAST. Do NOT delay. You don't want to be like my family who only left once the flood began (thanks, dad). Not only did we have to hurry to pack, we weren't able to prepare. At that, here are some good things to do in a hurricane:

Have a radio - an emergency crank radio is good, since it uses mechanical energy. We also had walkie talkies.

Have a good first aid kit, especially if you cant get out.

Unplug anything that you absolutely do not need while home, unplug everything before you leave. We didn't do this and my house almost caught fire (fridge outlet) - only the flood put it out.

Have a working fire alarm, charge flashlights and devices. Make sure you also have candles and lighters, too.

Be VERY careful if you must wade or drive in flood water. There will be debris, there will be down power lines. It is deeper than it looks.

Stock up on water and nonperishable food. Eat your perishable foods now. Use coolers for any excess. MREs are good to have, you can order them online.

Put belongings you can't take with you as high up in your house as you can - prioritize things that cannot be easily/emotionally replaced. Leave space for you to go high up too, if you're staying.

Use sand bags (or DIY alternatives) as flood barriers. Tie or tarp down everything you can, and don't keep it in a wide open area.

Close windows, and stay away from them. You really don't want to be there when something comes flying.

This is all I can think of for now, others feel free to add more or correct me. Remember, your life is more important than objects. Losing your life is worse than losing everything but your life. Stay safe, and stay alive.

[389]

Philippine Flood Disaster

[sttoru]

are we monster fuckers if we fuck sukuna...

if we’re talking about true form sukuna with the four arms four eyes a whole belly mouth and an inhuman height then…. yes, i think so 🧚‍♀️

[breezy-cheezy]

Febuwhump day 9: Voice Loss (un)Natural Disaster

So these are gonna be kinda late (and out of order) from here on out since it’s MARCH but hey some of these were solidly set up!! School just was A lot. Anyway.

@forwantofacalling wrote a Drabble and shared it in our discord about Cater Overblotting and Trey tracking him down after the fact. 12/10, painful concept, here’s a drawin.

Please do not tag this with shipping tags, this is meant to be portrayed as platonic, thanks!