The large scale #blackout in #Spain and #Portugal caught my attention for multiple reasons.

First, it's an example of the kind of disruption that is much less personally disruptive if you've prepared adequately for emergencies.

Also, it reminded me of the backstory of my #postapocalyptic Island Survival series. Let's keep that scenario in fiction, people!

It's well known that all national power grids are on the brink of collapse. This is the way the grid systems have always worked. Any outage will need to be isolated as soon as possible to avoid a cascade failure of the whole grid (or grids, since many national grids are highly interconnected).

The recent #poweroutage is a great reminder that #preparedness is not a joke. You should have provisions and enough stockpile to manage at least 72 hours, preferably a week in a pinch.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-commission-urges-stockpiling-emergency-supplies-2025-03-26/

https://www.suomi.fi/guides/preparedness

Environmental & Anthropogenic Influences On Fire Patterns In Tropical Dry Deciduous Forests
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-98051-7 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #wildfire #fire #busgfire #nvironmental #anthropogenic #influences #humanimpacts #deciduous #forests #firepatterns #spatialanalysis #tropical #ecosystems #management #tree #vegetation #spatiotemporal #hotspots #india #Satpura #tiger #reserve #ecogeography #geography #factors #parameters #drivers #temperature #precipitation #rainfall #model #modeling #bayesian #framework #slope #water #hydrology #infrastructure #mitigation #monitoring #preparedness #forestfires

A Predictive Model For Household Displacement Duration After Disasters
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https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.17710 <-- shared paper
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https://nicolepaul.eu.pythonanywhere.com/ <-- interactive web interface
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #HouseholdPulseSurvey #risk #hazard #damage #loss #spatialanalysis #model #modeling #disaster #naturaldisaster #storm #hurricane #flood #fire #cost #economics #community #publicsafety #effects #predictivemodel #AI #machinelearning #riskanalysis #classifactiontree #socioeconomics #casestudy #mitigation #preparedness #displacement #population

QUICK! Your cell phone & Internet provider services go down. For longer than an hour or two...

Do you have a plan?

Caring for elderly? How do you contact them? How do they contact you?

Kids at school or activities? Ditto.

#Disabled friends or family? Ditto.

What's *The Plan™*?

Someone shoot the whole #IoT In view of the #preparedness Union Strategy (https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/preparedness-union-strategy_en ) and its local implementation I’ve made some elementary prep and went on a search of battery-powered (bonus if solar-powered*) #radio. This is surprisingly difficult to find, but one can get radio-controlled robotic window cleaning sponges, IoT thermometers to track ovulation, WiFi-controlled egg cookers and LED candles with remotely controlled, scheduled scent release and a hygrometer linked to your Apple Watch.

* this is admittedly of limited use in NL unless the radio has a very large surface area, which technically makes it an antenna? Might end up doubling as a radiotelescope by accident, definitely a win

“Humanity is really screwed, so let’s slow down, help each other, be nicer to animals and nature, defend freedom, grow food, play more, be open-minded about what might help, and forgive ourselves.”-Jem Bendell
#Preparedness #Resilience #Community
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/17/preppers-liberals-climate-collapse

WHO member countries draft landmark preparedness treaty for next pandemic http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKBpS7 #PandemicTreaty #GlobalHealth #WHO #PublicHealth #Preparedness

Interpretable Physics-Informed Graph Neural Networks For Flood Forecasting
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https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.13484 <-- shared paper
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https://github.com/MehdiTaghizadehUVa/modulus/tree/main/examples/weather/flood_modeling/hydrographnet <-- shared GitHub repository
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #FloodForecasting #GraphNeuralNetworks #PhysicsInformedAI #Hydrology #ClimateResilience #ScientificMachineLearning #CivilEngineering #HydroGraphNet #PhyiscsNeMo #hydrology #water #flood #flooding #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #climatechange #model #modeling #machinelearning #AI #extremeweather #prediction #forecasting #planning #humanimpacts #loss #lossoflife #publicsafety #cost #economics #infrastructure #risk #hazard #disaster #mitigation #preparedness #naturaldisaster #HydroGraphNet #floodforecasting #dynamics #remotesensing #earthobservation

As tornados and flooding hit the U.S., Trump is ending a program that helps cities prepare for disasters.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91311747/as-tornados-and-flooding-hit-the-u-s-trump-is-ending-a-program-that-helps-cities-prepare-for-disasters #FEMA #Trump #Disasters #Preparedness #Government #ExtremeWeather

Question: my NET (Portland for "CERT") team uses FRS radios for communication. Now that I'm a ham, can I simply use my Yaesu FT-65 to communicate on the same frequency but with better range?

The existence of this frequency table suggests yes:

https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/FRS/GMRS_combined_channel_chart

Don't be victim of corporate IT. Make sure your travels include Edgemap pouch which enhances your preparedness and resilience when you need them most. Check out my latest article on this [1].

[1] https://resilience-theatre.com/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:plan_ahead

https://www.europesays.com/1964819/ Four hurricane names retired, WMO citing climate change influence #Climate #ClimateChange #communication #GlobalWarming #HurricaneNames #impact #preparedness #Retired #TropicalCyclone #WMO

in light of the recent tariff announcements and the economic impact it's going to have on,,,, literally all of us, how about we kick off a little #30DaysOfReadiness series where we share ('share' not as in 'posting' but rather 'freely exchanging a resource we have—like knowledge—that someone else might not') a tip a day about ways to prepare for the changes we're inevitably going to encounter in the coming weeks, months, and years?

Travels ahead? Box in middle is RaspberryPi Zero 2W and it offers you full world street level maps. It works without Internet connectivity. Bill of materials at my Wiki [1] and total cost is like $80. Don't let Internet shutdowns to ruin your day.

[1] https://resilience-theatre.com/wiki/doku.php?id=edgemap:meshtastic_bom#edgemap_with_rpi_2w_zero

The March IHI newsletter is out - read it at https://europa.eu/!Hw6nXm
Our director met with the European Parliament's Public Health Committee
Success stories from our projects on #Type1Diabetes, #COVID19 and #preparedness, & #immunotherapy
Meet a new IHI #imaging project, and sign up for a webinar on our paediatric #cancer project ITCC-P4.
Last but not least - the deadlines for IHI calls 9 and 10 are approaching fast!
#IHITransformingHealth #HorizonEU #health #research #funding

Do you know what to do when #criticalinfrastructure goes down or some other major incident occurs? Here's the official Finnish #Preparedness Guide: https://www.suomi.fi/guides/preparedness/how-do-i-prepare-for-incidents-and-crises - While it is of course written from a Finnish point of view, it does contain some rather good advice in general.

March 18: France will distribute a “survival manual” for every household.

March 6: Netherlands said citizens need to prepare to manage "without the central government" in case of a "real conflict.”

November 2024: Sweden, Norway & Finland put out new advice on surviving war, with Sweden including this message:

“If Sweden is attack…we will never give up. All information to the effect that resistance is to cease is false.”

via @itskatarnett@threads.net