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Reroofing resilience at its best! 🏡⚒️ Read about the project in Alabama, supported by TRI-BUILT, that helped reroof an entire housing complex following a storm: https://lnkd.in/ePAwucja

We need to create a ten km zone of fire exclusion zone , ie a moat or somthing with the same effect. All key plants need these zones

In the aftermath of a disaster, the damage we can see—broken buildings, disrupted communities, and lost possessions—is immediate and overwhelming. While the external rebuilding is visible, what’s happening inside of us is just as important, even if it’s harder to see. In our latest resource, Forte's Head of Well-being shares practical steps to restore what restore what can’t be seen. Learn more: https://ow.ly/61nM50TCciX

Here's the importance of following fire alarms when they're pulled. You may not see the danger, there may be no danger and it could be a false alarm, but it should also be a very real and unseen threat. So many casualties in disasters could have been reduced or prevented if people follow the alerts in a calm and swift manner. Please be safe and follow the safety warnings, especially as we're coming into hurricane season. https://lnkd.in/eHb_WRQu

Update as of 10/10/24 4:00 pm edt: More than 50,000 workers from at least 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada already are dedicated to the Milton response and restoration effort and are strategically prepositioned in and near Florida ahead of #HurricaneMilton making landfall. This pre-landfall planning, preparation, and staging ensures that impacted entities will have the initial wave of resources they need to assess damage and begin the work of restoring power once it is safe to do so after #Milton passes. Learn more about the restoration efforts underway at: https://bit.ly/47Myc9Y

More than 43,000 workers from at least 40 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada already are dedicated to the Milton response and restoration effort and are being strategically prepositioned in and near Florida before #HurricaneMilton makes landfall. This pre-landfall planning, preparation, and staging ensures that impacted entities will have the initial wave of resources they need to assess damage and begin the work of restoring power once it is safe to do so after #Milton passes. Learn more about the restoration efforts underway at: https://bit.ly/47Myc9Y

Completely unrelated. Except that lightning causes quite a few structure fires. But just have a look at the convection from last nights line of storms over eastern Kansas. Two fun science facts for the day: 1. Very bright multi-stroke lightning strikes in the same location are usually connected to a "superbolt". These are lightning strikes that more or less go from their contact point on the surface often clear through the entire storm and even into the Ionosphere. They can be up to 300 BILLION volts. 2. Without lightning, our atmosphere would be too unstable for us to exist in the world as we know it. https://lnkd.in/gSDwnTVE #3m #internationalfirestopcouncil #IFC #firestop #firestopping #firesafety #lifesafety #continuingeducation #constructioneducation #construction #buildinginnovation #buildbetter #buildsmart #passivefireprotection #codeenforcement #buildingcodes #firemarshal #buildinginspections #contractoreducation #constructionmaterials #buildingmaterials #kcmo #inspectors #codesinspectors #firemashals

In light of the recent devastation in WNC, our blog post this week discusses why the Antecedent Precipitation Tool is so valuable when it comes to determining areas at high risk of flooding, and why it needs to be built back as resilient as the communities that were destroyed. So check it out: it's an interesting read.

USACE APT Tool Temporarily Down: Hurricane Helene Shuts Down the National Centers for Environmental Information Headquarters in Asheville, NC Hurricane Helene's impact on Western North Carolina led to the shutdown of NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) in Asheville, which in turn caused the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Antecedent Precipitation Tool (APT) to go offline. The tool's unavailability affects many environmental professionals who rely on it to assess flood risks by analyzing soil saturation and rainfall data. The disaster highlighted the tool's dependency on NCEI servers and raised concerns about whether backups or alternative data sources exist. This incident emphasizes the importance of redesigning the APT tool to be more resilient, especially as climate disasters become more frequent. Improving the APT's accessibility and reliability will be crucial for rebuilding flood-prone communities and infrastructure. Read our blog post to learn more about this issue. https://lnkd.in/e8arKzcG

A 3-minute oral history of the Steamboat Monmouth Disaster (Trail of Tears), on October 31, 1837, making it A Day To Remember courtesy of University of Central Oklahoma Listen on #Spotify https://lnkd.in/gQtJ--yj Listen on #applepodcast https://lnkd.in/g_hmR4gw In the 1830s, more than 18,000 Muscogee Creek people were forcibly moved from Georgia and Alabama to present-day Oklahoma. In 1837, on the Alabama Gulf Coast, a group of 1600 were put on board three steamboats that were to take them to the Mississippi River, where they would turn north toward the Red River country and their new home. Around 700 were put on board the steamship Monmouth. This was nearly twice as many people as the ship’s stated capacity. The ship was also understaffed, its crew inexperienced. There is much debate about what happened on the cold, rainy night of October 31, 1837, with Monmouth steaming north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Accepted navigational practice at the time was for boats going upriver to stay in shallower water close to the banks, while those moving downriver were expected to follow the center of the channel. Some sources state that Monmouth was not following procedure, and it veered directly into the path of the southbound steamboat Warren.   The violent collision threw hundreds of Monmouth’s tightly packed passengers into the water. Many drowned while trying to find a handhold. The ship sank within minutes, with the cabin breaking in two. Two crewmen and 311 Native Americans died. The Muscogee Creek people were buried in anonymous, mass graves nearby. The story of the Monmouth disaster was not well known at the time. It was weeks before news reports appeared in eastern papers, and even then as a small footnote of little concern. Yet the wreck of the Monmouth resulted in the largest loss of life on an American river before the Civil War…a rarely told story from the Trail of Tears. #History #October31 #TrailOfTears #MuscogeeCreek #Monmouth #Disaster #mississippiriver #nativeamericans #Removal Photo: Painting depicting the Monmouth disaster by Paul Bender.