A team of European Union (EU) emergency experts brought together by the Community Civil Protection Mechanism arrived in Namibia last week to assess the flood-hit areas.
The team comprises six experts in various areas of emergency management from Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic and the European Commission.
Showing posts with label flood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flood. Show all posts
Friday, April 3, 2009
HOMELAND 1: Fargo resisted FEMA recommendation to evacuate
FARGO, N.D. — With floodwaters rising around them, Fargo officials and the Federal Emergency Management Agency faced an agonizing decision: Should they order a mandatory evacuation of the entire city?
FEMA thought the best course of action was to evacuate and not leave anything to chance. Fargo officials disagreed, saying they knew what it would take to hold back the Red River. The conversation turned heated at times, and Fargo ultimately won.
Now that the Red River is receding and leaving only relatively minor damage, that decision looks smart. The city began returning to normal Wednesday as people went back to work, stores reopened and the river dipped to only slightly above 37 feet.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
SEATTLE TIMES: Dam discharge that swamped Pacific spurs finger-pointing
Floodwaters that pushed through the city of Pacific last week could have been controlled 11 hours earlier if word had reached the federal agency that was releasing a torrent of water upstream at Mud Mountain Dam.
The Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday it had no clue it was flooding two of the city's subdivisions. Still, once it learned the extent of the flooding, it took two more hours before there was an order to slow the release of water at the dam.
Who was responsible for alerting the corps — or whether the agency should have known better — has provoked finger-pointing among city and King County emergency officials. Fundamental questions also have been raised about the chain of command for disaster response and communication in King County.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
LEXINGTON HERALD-EXAMINER
Kentucky officials will take a closer look at requiring emergency action plans for coal ash ponds after a dam failed last month at a large ash containment structure in Tennessee.
Such plans spell out procedures for notifying authorities if a dam fails or is about to fail. Federal recommendations for such plans also call for mapping the area that would be flooded in a break, as well as evacuation details.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
CNET: ioSafe Solo: Disaster-proof external hard drive
Copying data to an external hard drive is probably the easiest, most popular way to back up. This won't help save important data against fire or flood, however, unless the external hard drive is the one unveiled by ioSafe at CES this year: the ioSafe Solo.
ioSafe is known for making internal hard drives that can survive extreme heat. The ioSafe Solo is the result of putting that internal hard drive into an external case that features a USB 2.0 connection to hook up to a computer.
According to ioSafe, the Solo can withstand fires up to 1,550 degrees F, compliant with the ASTM E119 industry standard. The drive can also be submersed in fresh or salt water for three days at a depth of 10 feet.
The internal hard drive used in the Solo is protected with ioSafe technologies including FloSafe, HydroSafe, and DataCast.
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