Clause 1, Article 3 of the Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control explains that a natural disaster is an abnormal phenomenon of nature such as a storm, tropical depression, whirlwind, lightning, heavy rain, pipe flood, flash flood, inundation, and sliders caused by rain or runoff, lan...
Currently the people of Chheplung are living in temporary shelters delivered to them by the German Red Cross, one of the only organizations providing aid in this remote area. Groups of volunteers from the village are going into ruined buildings to dig through the rubble in hopes of re...
hurricane, it was on the right side of the lot with its windows blown out. The storm itself didn’t scare me because I was sealed in my apartment. What did scare me was when the security guard knocked on my door vat 4 AM. “Are you OK?”, she asked. At the end of the hall t...
time, resources and preparation capacity to find adequate solutions that would protect local populations and public infrastructures aside from taking precautionary measures and initiating pre-emptive evacuation of families living in areas forecasted to be on the storm path to safer ground (NDRRMC, 2014)...
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Some 4,000 people huddled in hurricane shelters during the storm that brought 92 mile per hour winds and torrential rains, and today Tuesday a couple thousand remain there as their homes are gone or uninhabitable. Most Belizeans weathered the storm in darkness as the country’s entire electrical...
Premier Danielle Smith arrived in Edson on Monday afternoon where she met with Mayor Kevin Zahara and West Yellowhead MLA Martin Long to survey the storm damage first-hand. "I want to thank all the civic officials at the Town of Edson, Mayor Kevin Zahara, and MLA Martin Long for working ...
Implementation of UCC was a major commitment of the BJP in the run-up to the 2022 assembly polls in Uttarakhand which saw the party storm to power for a second consecutive term. The state cabinet recently approved the rules and regulations for UCC's implementation and authorised the chief ...
Who has not had the temptation at an all-you-can-eat buffet (remember them? They're a pre-Covid thing) to take some of everything, on the reasonable ground that once you've agreed to pay the fixed price for the meal, all the food is free. The food is even more delicious when ...
but very minimal impacts expected here on the island. Subtropical Storm Olga has become better organized during the day today and has made the transition to a tropical storm (Deep convection and strong winds near center vs Sub-tropical which is opposite. The latest recon data found that the ...