A Time to Rember - A Time to Prepare

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Labels: prepardness
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The 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season is finally starting up in earnest ...
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The following is from a FEMA email sent out on Monday Aug 22nd at 06:56AM PDT
Labels: HAZUS Help, support
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On May 5, 2011 the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs held a hearing on Understanding the Power of Social Media as a Communication Tool in the Aftermath of Disasters. MORE INFO
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Crisis mapping tools—which combine communications technologies with a Web-based platform for analysis—can be used to organize information contributed by participants using mobile phones and other devices, and to display important updates on a live map.
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In an email sent out on Aug 5th FEMA reports:
"The Hazus program has been experiencing technical problems over the past several days with the processing of some Helpdesk tickets. We apologize if this situation has resulted in a slower than usual response to a request you may have submitted recently. The technical difficulties have now been resolved and we are working diligently to recover as quickly as possible and address any tickets that are still outstanding. Again, we are very sorry if this has caused any delays to your work and we appreciate your patience. "
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