Ready.gov resources on Disaster Kits for you, your pets, and special needs populations. Tools and templates to create your family communication plan.
A spark of creativity — good. A spark of lightning — bad. A quick quiz and video of a man hit by lightning while walking his dogs, in today’s Severe Weather Awareness Week post.
It’s meteorological spring, and time to think storm safety. Today, severe weather preparedness with a side order of tongue-in-cheek.
A day which brought severe hail and downpours to Kansas also produced some great photos!
Field work is getting underway for the spring. Timely reminded for safety from Kansas Farm Bureau:
Here’s the promised update to our all-in-one storm resource list, with several new-for-2018 items!
Thanks to Trooper Ben for the impetus for this post! Here’s a map and photos of the Kansas Turnpike shelters, along with a discussion of where to seek shelter in your community if your home does not have underground shelters. I also talk about considerations if you’ve been thinking about a shelter for your home.
A contractor may ask you to sign a document similar to the one you sign at the doctor’s office, assigning benefits from your insurance coverage directly to the contractor. By doing so, you may be giving up significant rights…and control over your ability to get future insurance.
People have been struck by lightning more than 20 miles away from a storm, in clear skies. The rules for lightning safety have changed in the past five years.
A few years ago I took Butler County’s CERT training Class. Four things stood out for me, because they were unexpected. For instance: CPR has no role in a disaster.
Cancel Saturday Events on Friday: Nope. Stock Up on Bread and Water: oops, this isn’t winter. Get some cash from the ATM? Not a bad idea. 5 steps for families to prepare and 3 suggestions for event organizers.
With school coming to an end, here’s some useful information for those who will be moving later this month.
SPC has posted an infographic concerning the meaning of their five-tier system for communicating storm risk in their outlooks. Our terminology matches SPC and our usage is generally identical. However, the areas we serve are different, which can lead to occasional discrepancies.
Outlook, watch, warning….does all that confuse you? This webinar from the Storm Prediction Center will sort it out.
Bottom line for today: be wary, not worried. Be ready, not complacent. Act, don’t react.
All photos taken by Jarod Carlisle and Copyright 2014, KSStormMedia, LLC
What do you get when you blindfold a weather forecaster and take away their computer? We’re about to find out….
Accuweather explains why (via Mike Smith Blog). Mike Smith Enterprises Blog: Cars ARE Safe in Lightning. Key tip: keep your hands, etc. off the metal parts and you’ll be fine.
Grey skies with a few showers will be the weather story to finish out the workweek, but the payoff is a beautiful weekend. We are also closely monitoring what appears to be the first significant severe weather threat of the season for the state.
A high-quality forecast, we were on the storm of the day, and made multiple reports to NWS Dodge City. Numerous photos and videos of the storm in the article…
Though he passed nearly two months ago, our hearts are still hurting over the loss of a valued member of the KSStorm.Info team — Steve Boleski. As we enter storm season we offer a look at some of the chasing photos Steve was able to take over the past four seasons.
Good progress, though less than I’d hoped.
