Metropolitan Digital

Google


.

Fall is prime hurricane and wildfire season: Are your disaster kit and go-bag ready?

  • Written by Brett Robertson, Assistant Professor of Communication, University of South Carolina
Fall is prime hurricane and wildfire season: Are your disaster kit and go-bag ready?Disasters can happen anywhere at any time. Be prepared.fstop123 via Getty Images

Another hurricane is brewing in the Atlantic, and dozens of large fires are burning in the U.S. West, including one threatening homes on the outskirts of Redding, California. When disasters hit, they can mean days to weeks without power, and sometimes they allow just...

Read more: Fall is prime hurricane and wildfire season: Are your disaster kit and go-bag ready?

More Articles ...

  1. Haitian migrants at the border: An asylum law scholar explains how US skirts its legal and moral duties
  2. Preliminary research finds that even mild cases of COVID-19 leave a mark on the brain – but it's not yet clear how long it lasts
  3. Federal police reform talks have failed – but local efforts stand a better chance of success
  4. Long power outages after disasters aren't inevitable – but to avoid them, utilities need to think differently
  5. What Harvard’s humanist chaplain shows about atheism in America
  6. How conservative comic Greg Gutfeld overtook Stephen Colbert in ratings to become the most popular late-night TV host
  7. School year off to a rocky start? 4 ways parents can help kids get back on track
  8. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven's unfinished 10th Symphony
  9. Half of unvaccinated workers say they'd rather quit than get a shot – but real-world data suggest few are following through
  10. More Americans couldn't get enough to eat in 2020 – a change that hit the middle class hardest