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Please Help: Volunteers Needed To Help With Hurricane Wiki To Prep for Hurricane Ida

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Weather Channel Alerts 2009 was looking like a very uneventful hurricane season. That is until Hurricane Ida slammed into El Salvador killing 91 people as of this writing. We need volunteers to review the wiki section by section and make sure that there are resources collected for Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

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How You Can Help Hurricane Ida Relief Efforts

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Late at night on Sunday August 29th, Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near Port Fourchon, Louisiana. The good news is that no matter how far you are from the areas hit by Hurricane Ida, you can still help those impacted by the storm. Find the Helpers. Learn more and donate here.

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Tips for Disaster Relief Bloggers

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People wanted to see how her town looked before, as well as after the hurricane. Photo credit: Hurricane Katrina Donations (ii) by Barret Anspach blogher blogher06 disaster relief blog The last BlogHer Conference session I went to yesterday, before leaving early to go to a wedding, was about using blogging for Community Assistance.

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3 Ways to Engage Community to Drive Climate Justice

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For example, one issue with access in a rural Mississippi town is that they don’t have high-speed internet access, and the state constantly cuts public school funding. At the same time, communities are facing acute climate issues in the here and now, such as losing their homes to a hurricane. says Jones.

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Tornado Alley is shifting east. Here’s what to know

Fast Company Tech

Tornado Alley shifts eastward The locations of these storms have also been notable: The 2025 tornadoes through May have been widespread but clustered near the lower and central Mississippi Valley , stretching from Illinois to Mississippi. Tornado Alley is really all of the U.S. Just ask the residents of London, Kentucky ; St.

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Scientists say climate change made April’s deadly U.S. rainfall worse

Fast Company Tech

The series of storms unleashed tornadoes, strong winds and extreme rainfall in the central Mississippi Valley region from April 36 and caused at least 24 deaths. The analysis found a rainfall event of April’s intensity could occur in the central Mississippi Valley region about once every 100 years. “That one in 100 years.

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Trump wants to cut more disaster recovery funding. Nearly every Congressional district has recently needed the money

Fast Company Tech

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) also plays a significant role by helping cities and states rebuild after hurricanes, wildfires, and other climate impacts. Rebuild by Design began as a HUD-launched design competition in 2013 to respond to the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy. Meanwhile, 99.5%

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