Kip Magee

Megan Collins

INT 369

February 2, 2018

Communicating Natural Disasters

In the age of social media, we tented to expected to have the latest broadcast of the weather events. The risk of knowing how the weather may be when traveling is some of the things that we look towards with the news feed, this is the precaution we need to know. I received Emergency Alerts though my phone and if there’s a Severe Dust Strom Warning it would say Avoid travel. Check local media. Also during emergencies, we get the Emergency Alerts System through local T.V. networking stations alerting us to Severe Wind and Dust alert here in Pahrump.

My Facebook social media is one good channel for events of epic proportions. When Irma hit Puerto Rico the events was catastrophic in its magnitude. The Mayor was proclaiming Statehood and immediate action. She stresses that the people of United States of America are being denied equal treatment to health and medical aid. FEMA covered areas of Puerto Rico that news channel did not considered. An agency spokesman for FEMA Mr. Booher, said “This aid is not stopping,” [interview]. “There was no, and is no, current plan to stop providing these commodities, as long as there continues to be an identified need for them.” (Patricia Mazzei 2018).

Twitter in the NBCNews: National Weather Services, show massive air flow through the Santa Ana’s in Los Angeles. “Water vapor satellite shows dry air mass (in orange) from Nevada combining with Santa Ana Winds in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties by Thurday.” (Maximiliano Valdes 2017) During the Severe Fire last year Twitter was keeping records of places that had Red Flag Warnings. These commodities aid in local and States disasters that goes on and tell of aid help station in your area. Even though electricity isn’t always available in serve area, warning does come from NOAA communication which I prefer, because of the stead stream of information.

Resources.

Patricia Mazzei 2018 “A FEMA Error Drove Fears That Food and Water Aid to Puerto Rico Was Ending. It’s Not.” The New York Times [Internet]. [cited Feb, 1 2018];

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/us/puerto-rico-fema-aid.html

Maximiliano Valdes, 2017 “NBC News @NBCNews” National Weather Service. [Twitter Internet]. [cited Feb, 1 2018];