Disaster Girl's - The Disaster Caster

May 15, 2014

Hurricane Season Begins! 2014 Storm Names & Season Outlooks / Website Changes

WEBSITE CHANGE NOTE: Hurricane/Tropical Storm coverage has been moved. It now has its own tab listed in the toolbar, and will remain the first tab during hurricane season. Once hurricane season has ended 'The Latest' (other articles) will be reverted back to the first tab. All other articles can still be found under 'The Latest' at any point during the year, or by using the pull down menu located on the right sidebar of this page. Thank you.

TROPICAL OUTLOOKS &

2014 STORM SEASON OUTLOOKS

Colorado State University Tropical Outlook Report - BELOW AVERAGE

The Weather Channel Tropical Outlook Report - BELOW AVERAGE

Tropical Storm Risk 2014 Tropical Outlook Report - BELOW AVERAGE
Wunderground.com 2014 Tropical Outlook Report - BELOW AVERAGE
CPC / NWS Weekly 2014 Tropical Outlook Report - BELOW AVERAGE
N.O.A.A. / N.H.C. 2014 Tropical Outlook Report - BELOW / AVERAGE

SPECIAL NOAA NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER NOTE:

THE NHC WILL BE CHANGING THE LAYOUT OF THEIR STORM TRACKS THIS YEAR. THIS WILL
MAKE THE MAPS LOOK A WHOLE LOT MORE COMPLICATED AND WILL HIGHLIGHT EVEN SMALL
DEVELOPMENTS SO THAT 'FOLKS CAN STAY BETTER PREPARED'. BELOW IS A SAMPLE OF WHAT
THE NEW NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER'S MAPS WILL LOOK LIKE STARTING JULY OF THIS YEAR.

NEW NHC POTENTIAL STORM SURGE MAPS:

This will be a new section on the NHC's website (experimental, will be around for at least 2 years), it will be
updated just like the tracks are (every 6/12 hours, as needed) and will be found on NHC starting June 1st.

Link to NHC Statement on New Surge Maps

xoxo disaster girl

P.F.S. Links for the Curious

NHC's 2013 End of Year Tropical Report

May 7, 2014

American Red Cross - Disaster Preparedness Apps - On the Go Survival

NEW APPS AND RESOURCES

APPS AT A GLANCE

GET YOURS TODAY THROUGH THE APP STORE OR THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE!

I personally recommend downloading the following apps: Red Cross First Aid, Red Cross Team, Red Cross Pet First Aid,

Red Cross Hurricane, Red Cross Tornado, Red Cross Flood, Red Cross Earthquake, Red Cross Wildfire.

xoxo disaster girl

April 30, 2014

Hurricane Katrina - What They Didn't Want You to See

HURRICANE KATRINA

What They Didn't Want You To See

WARNING: THE PHOTOS BELOW CONTAIN GRAPHIC MATERIAL INCLUDING

BUT NOT LIMITED TO BLOOD AND GORE - VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

After the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami I realized that American media didn't really openly cover the grisly reality of Hurricane Katrina (and other US natural disaster as well). Yet ironically when a disaster strikes off of US land the 'corpse coverage' reigns in quite high in US media. Granted, Hurricane Katrina hit the US very hard and highlighting these areas tends to make FEMA and the US response to the storms toll even worse (it was already pretty bad, and they didn't need any extra icing on that 'cake'). Alas, years later the photos surfaced of the horrifying conditions that New Orleans natives had to endure is quite unsettling- and knowing that help didn't arrive for days is heartbreaking.

"I remember the riots in Watts. I remember the earthquake in San Francisco. I remember a lot of things. I have never seen anything as badly handled as this situation in New Orleans. Where the hell is the water for these people? Why can't sandwiches be dropped to those people in that Superdome down there? It's a disgrace. And don't think the world isn't watching." - James Cafferty - CNN News

[People walk by a dead body on a street in New Orleans, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005.Thousands of area residents still remain in the besieged city but military assistance has improved and people are being evacuated by air and bus. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)]

[Members of the 82nd Airborne walk past the body of a dead man on Union in downtown New Orleans Wednesday, Sept.7, 2005. Law enforcement officials were uncertain of the cause of death. . (AP Photo/The Times, Greg Pearson)]

[Chickasaw Nation Search and Rescuer, Casey Kelley, looks on as his rescue boat makes it's way past a home with a dead body floating in the front yard in New Orleans, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Barbara Davidson)]

[Patricia Jefferson Joseph cries after viewing A dead body at left just outside the historic French Quarter in New Orleans, La., Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)]

[A blue quilt covers the body of a Hurricane Katrina flood victim underneath Interstate 10 in New Orleans on Friday, Sept. 9, 2005. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)]

[The body of a man lies less than a quarter of a mile from the French Market in New Orleans Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005. Louisiana State Police say it appeared the white male was strangled. (AP Photo/The Times, Greg Pearson)]

[A body lies on the corner of Washington Avenue and S. Carrollton Avenue Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Irwin Thompson)]

xoxo disaster girl

P.F.S. Links for the Curious

Cryptome's Eyeballing Katrina's Dead

The Guardian - Why did help take so long to arrive?

April 21, 2014

Disaster Kit Recommendations - Weapons Without Machinery

Disaster Girl's Survival Kit Recommendations

Bonus items you should add on top of items listed in previous survival kit article.

WEAPONS WITHOUT MACHINERY

Somewhere between Breaking Bad & The Walking Dead it became apparent that perhaps the stealthiest weapons are the ones you wouldn't traditional carry. Let's face it, guns require quite a bit of maintenance compared to knives and they also make a lot of noise. Weapons that don't advertise your location will be the most useful to have in apocalyptic scenarios, and although I don't condone the use of them in disaster scenarios sometimes you just don't know what cards you will be dealt. As the movie Aftershock kindly (& graphically, might I add) pointed out- you never know what a natural disaster can cause. If there is a devastating natural disaster looters WILL be found, and prisons may experience breaches- so it never hurts to be prepared.

BOW & ARROWS