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FEMA Fire Declarations & the Pareto Principle
Vilfredo Pareto was an Italian economist and philosopher whose observation that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the people eventually became the basis of the “Pareto Principle”. Today, the...
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Hurricane Katrina – In a League of Its Own
Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the gulf coast around the Mississippi-Louisiana border in the early morning hours of August 29, 2005 as a strong Category 3 Hurricane with an unusually large size –...
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Droughts and Heat Waves – More than Unwatered Lawns
When we think of droughts, many Americans think of local water conservation measures such as prohibiting lawn watering and taking fewer showers. Similarly, heat waves bring power shortages and the...
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Tornadoes and the Fujita Scale
Tornado intensity is classified on the Fujita Scale – named after Dr. Ted Fujita (aka Dr. Tornado) who in 1971 developed a rating methodology. While Dr. Fujita originally used estimates of wind...
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Tornado Center of the United States – Springfield, Missouri
From the data for all recorded tornadoes since 1950* (over 57,000 recorded), it appears that the tornado center of the United States is on State Highway 60, twenty miles east of Springfield, Missouri...
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El Niño, El Desastre: Part 2- UPDATED
El Niño 2015- a graph that says it all: be prepared. *The Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) is based on current year three month running mean of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) departures from average in the Niño...
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Palo Alto Manages Volunteers & CERT with VEOCI
Nathan Rainey, Emergency Services Manager, City of Palo Alto, California: “Our OES manages a large volunteer program, and one that we hope to grow even more. Having an information system that can grow...
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Veoci at IAEM Conference 2017
Veoci is on the road again! Our destination? Long Beach, California for the 65th annual International Association of Emergency Managers Conference & EMEX. Veoci is proud to be a part of IAEM’s...
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Preparing for Hurricane Season
June 1st marks the official start of hurricane season. Every year, businesses, governments, colleges and universities, hospitals, and other organizations along the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic...
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