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Study explores what motivates people to watch footage of disasters and extreme weather https://lnkd.in/drCuv6Qg The release in July 2024 of the blockbuster film Twisters (centred around a social-media celebrity storm-chaser) demonstrates an ongoing public fascination in hazards and extreme weather. The arrival of camera and streaming technologies have made it easier to collect and share such footage in recent years, resulting in often dramatic footage being live-streamed on platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and Discord. Now, a new study has analyzed what might be motivating people to watch these streams -- in some instances for up to 12 hours at a time.

"The heat network is down and 2,000 homes without heating" .... The call all estate teams dread. Working with Quintain Living to manage the heat network contracts on its Wembley Park site, we are really excited to see the incumbent ESCO operator for the Eastern Lands phase BUUK Infrastructure 'walk the walk' with a full disaster recovery dry run. It is a busy site with added complexities on Wembley stadium event days - this kind of activity demonstrates commitment to get it right when it does go wrong! https://lnkd.in/edi6WweA With heat networks maturing and becoming more common place it is especially important for the industry to increase customer confidence in the technology. I think best practice examples like this go a long way to help. Unfortunately too many operator agreements with all of the necessary KPIs and SLAs are never looked at post financial close, not actively managed, resulting in poor performance on site and reactive behaviour. Incoming regulation should be added incentive for all land owners to dust off those contracts and take a look - if you need any help get in touch.

As I watch the reporting on #hurricaneHelene, I wonder what significance broadcasting disasters live from location has on #protectiveactionbehaviour. Beyond the #media spectacle, does it really make any difference on #decisionmaking? And one more thing, this is just my rant: who makes the folks in the studio tell those on the ground to stay safe? There is something inherently hypocritical about that if you ask me. The reporter is all wet from the #storm, almost getting blown away by the #wind, and all I can think of in that moment is why are you even there? What behaviour are you modelling? What difference does your broadcast make to protective action decisions? How about ask them to not be there in the first place? Jeeeeezzz, I don't understand media and sensationalizing everything. Stay safe #Florida!

🌩️ Houston is Strong, but could we be stronger? 🤔 Last night's storm was a stark reminder of the challenges we face living in a region prone to extreme weather. While I'm grateful for the tireless efforts of our city officials and first responders, I can't help but wonder if we have a system in place to benchmark our disaster preparedness against other cities with similar risks. 🧐 Do we have a way to measure how our response times, infrastructure resilience, and community outreach compare to other cities? Could sharing best practices and lessons learned help us all become better prepared? As we rebuild and recover, let's explore how we can enhance our readiness for future storms. Together, we can make Houston even stronger. 💪 #HoustonStrong #DisasterPreparedness #ResilientCities #ClimateAction

Don't let the weather rain on your parade! Our weatherproof windows are designed to withstand the elements, keeping your home safe and comfortable year-round. Say goodbye to drafts and leaks – it's time to weatherproof your home and enjoy peace of mind whatever the for #peaceofmind #WeatherproofWindows #HomeProtection #PeaceOfMind #uPVCWindows #HomeImprovement #EnergyEfficient

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All the learnings from last wildfire season will hopefully support the response efforts this season. Municipalities should get their hands on any After Action Reviews from other jurisdictions to learn from their experiences. Transitional Solutions Inc. (TSI) completed 6 in the last 8 months and most are available on the municipalities websites! #wildfire #emergencymanagement

TONIGHT on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, #WHOI whale experts Mark Baumgartner + Michael Moore talk about threats facing the critically-endangered North Atlantic right whale– and possible solutions to help them recover. 🐋 Learn about WHOI-designed passive acoustic buoys, which pick up on whale sounds and alert mariners to avoid a collision, and other ways research is helping #savethewhales! 📲 Check local showtimes or watch the full episode online: go.whoi.edu/safe-passage

Everyone has their favourite television saga--whether Game of Thrones, Succession, the Crown, or the Eastenders--an ongoing story that they become completely absorbed with, anticipating eagerly each new episode. The National Trust's Holnicote Estate in Somerset is like that for me. If you missed the latest episode reported in the news this week here's what's been happening (spoiler alert!). Just a year after a ground-breaking project at Holnicote to ‘reset’ the river, experts have reported “an explosion of life”. Aquatic habitats at the site have improved by an astonishing1800%. Our “Stage Zero” technique aims to revert the river back to how it was before human alteration, and has been compared to pressing “CTRL + ALT + DELETE” on a computer. Given the state of English rivers, and the huge public interest in landscape scale restoration, we hope projects like this prove that the solutions are out there and that nature can do much of the heavy lifting (with a bit of help from those industrious beavers of course!)

I've been watching the approach and aftermath of Hurricane Helene with a great deal of interest. Some of that stems from my daughter, who is a student in Boone (she's fine and was not there for the worst of the damage), but also because this scenario plays out the same way, time after time. What you are witnessing in the disaster response to Helene is not a failing of state and federal government; rather, you are seeing the LIMIT of state and federal government. A significant gap exists between local and county level disaster response, and state and federal agencies. This gap will likely never be addressed satisfactorily for some structural reasons. A few minutes of thought exercise illustrates why. Mobilizing a National Guard unit takes several days. Determining optimal resource allocation takes several days. Pulling soldiers on active duty off their assignments takes several days. Interagency coordination and gathering of supplies takes several weeks. Meanwhile, the victims languish while local and county resources, often only a few hundred people or less, are overworked and undercoordinated. This hits particularly close to home for me because in 2018, my friend Brian Hilinski and I set out to do something about it, and as a result we launched our startup Harmany, Inc. (now defunct). Our premise was simple: the solution to large scale natural disasters does not lie with large-scale agencies, but rather with grass-roots local intervention in the moment at the point of need by those willing to give what they have. We built out a mobile app designed to match people who needed a place to stay during an evacuation with those who had an extra bed to offer. We designed an evacuation tracker for local agencies to use to determine who stayed behind, who left, and who was possibly missing. We created private networks for organizations such as businesses and religious organizations to connect members across their networks with one another at a moment's notice when disaster struck. Then, we started pitching it. It was a wild ride: TV appearances, pitch competitions, corporate and investor meetings. NPR selected our app as one of 17 "must haves" during an emergency. Fox News called us. The Washington Post wrote us up. We were featured speakers for two years at the National Tropical Weather Conference in South Padre Island, TX. We damn near made it onto Shark Tank - I attached our audition video if you're interested, and five years later I still find it very compelling. In the end, though, despite all the interest, all the meetings with local, state, and federal agencies, all the conversations with businesses and religious organizations, we couldn't find the funding to make it go. Which is too bad, because as you are seeing right now, the biggest organizations are limited by their bigness, while the smallest groups are the best-equipped to do something tangible in the moment. https://lnkd.in/eCt5PzZ9