Tag Archives: disaster response
2020 Coronavirus Pandemic – Action and Reaction
In the last blog, I explained how health care workers and therefore politicians had to do something at the onset of the CoV spread. The health community had several “shots across the bow” from viral outbreaks in 2003, 2009, 2012, and 2014. Now was their moment. The initial campaign for adaptive behavior – hand washing, […]
Hurricane Season – Part 2
Sometimes we humans aren’t too smart. We don’t use our God-given intelligence. In the 21st century, with satellite technology and weather sensors, we see a hurricane forming, building, and strengthening, and can easily track direction and progress. As the hurricane grows nearer, we are forewarned to leave an area. Sometimes we are ordered to evacuate. […]
Hurricane Season – Part 1
Although now living in British Columbia, some of you are aware that I grew up in South Carolina. The areas are as different as chalk and cheese. One of these is the weather and what influences it. Here we have the Japanese current, bringing relative warmth to our part of the southern Canadian Pacific coastline. […]
BC – A Most Beautiful Place on Earth
BC’s motto is “The most beautiful place on earth”. This could be argued, but clearly it is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Partly because of its natural setting. But this natural setting comes with a price. The 2017 summer drought in BC has finally been broken. We had measurable rainfall last week. […]
Continuation of a Long, Hot Summer
Records are being broken here in British Columbia. Records for dryness; lack of rainfall; hectares burned by wildfire. Here toward the end of August, the weather station keeps saying, “It’s not rained all summer.” More than 8 weeks. It’s wrecking havoc on the fruit and berry farm where I reside. Some of our fruit trees […]
Wildfires! Everywhere wildfires!
The wildfires are daily in the Canadian news. And this gets my ire up when I hear the ongoing news. It doesn’t have to happen this way. We cannot avoid lightning strikes that set some of the vast BC forest ablaze. This is nature. Maybe storms are more frequent or severe, but long term evidence […]
Beginning of a Long, Hot Summer
British Columbia is ablaze! As you may be aware, the province is blessed with enormous tracts of forest. This brings in the tourists, to see some amazing vistas. But, in June 2017, it has brought in the firefighters and water bombers. This is a cyclical, seasonal occurrence and some years are worse than others. This […]
Esperanza – a Getaway Heaven in Case of an Emergency
dddEsperanza is amazing. A spectacular location on the rain-drenched west Pacific coast of Vancouver Island, nestled beneath imposing overgrown cliffs that meet tranquil sea channels. About 10 acres split by a stream, naturally carved from the rugged shoreline in view of Nootka Island. The location is very near where Captain Cook first dropped anchor in western […]
Prepping for the Large One
We know that emergencies come in all sizes and shapes…from a bothersome power outage for an hour or so during a summer storm, to a 9.0 earthquake that rocks our world. As an emergency prepper, we look at worst case scenarios. This is why we advocate a supply stock for sheltering in place, ‘grab and […]
Agricultural Producers and Natural Hazards – Part II
Last month, we discussed the wildfire hazard for agriculture and especially the protection of farm animals – either by movement or ‘sheltering in place’. Let’s mention a few other natural hazards. Earthquakes are a common topic in western Canada, since we’re along a similar geological zone as California to our south. And we know of […]
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