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Comment on One Year Report On Transparency of Relief Groups Responding to 2010 Haiti Earthquake by What Wyclef Exposed

What Wyclef Exposed — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:36:07 +0000

[...] it is tempting to paint Yéle Haïti as a rogue, this concern with transparency is common. The Disaster Accountability Project reported that only one of the 196 agencies surveyed provides an adequate level of information on [...]

Comment on DAP Disaster News Roundup – August 24, 2012 by » DAP Disaster News Roundup – August 27, 2012 Disaster Accountability Blog: Public Accountability Requires Citizen Action (disasteraccountability.org)

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:55:11 +0000

[...] battered with hurricane winds and rains, the storm’s four reported deaths is much less than the mass destruction originally feared for the vulnerable country and its recovering [...]

Comment on DAP Disaster News Roundup – August 14, 2012 by » DAP Disaster News Roundup – August 22, 2012 Disaster Accountability Blog: Public Accountability Requires Citizen Action (disasteraccountability.org)

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:18:58 +0000

[...] units or donate them to local non-profits in order for the housing to remain in the Minot-area. Following Hurricane Katrina, trailers and mobile homes donated to the Gulf region found themselves a… following government auctions that sold the housing units at an extreme [...]

Comment on DAP Disaster News Roundup – August 13, 2012 by » DAP Disaster News Roundup – August 22, 2012 Disaster Accountability Blog: Public Accountability Requires Citizen Action (disasteraccountability.org)

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:16:50 +0000

[...] Two earthquake struck villages in northwest Iran on Aug. 11, killing more than 300 people. The Iranian government was criticized by citizens and local politicians for its immediate response to the earthquake in the rural [...]

Comment on DAP Disaster News Roundup – August 6, 2012 by » DAP Disaster News Roundup – August 17, 2012 Disaster Accountability Blog: Public Accountability Requires Citizen Action (disasteraccountability.org)

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:15:28 +0000

[...] Last week, a report found that the Pacific Northwest faces an increased likelihood of a major coastal earthquake in the next 50 years. [...]

Comment on Preparedness failures may have cost lives in deadly tornados by DAP Blog

DAP Blog — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:54:50 +0000

[...] this year we wrote about the need for federal funding of tornado siren back-up systems in the wake of the April 27, [...]

Comment on Lack of coherent regulatory oversight in Alabama and Missouri a major hurdle to strengthening tornado siren system by Sounding the Sirens: Lack of coherent regulatory oversight in Alabama and Missouri, Part II : DAP Blog

Tue, 08 May 2012 15:53:51 +0000

[...] October, we began a series on the significant problems faced by the unregulated tornado siren system in Alabama and [...]

Comment on Please Announce: Open Community Forum on CT Power Disaster on Thursday in West Hartford by Bob gross

Bob gross — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:35:50 +0000

Will make appropriate remarks if present

Comment on One year later: Greensburg, Kansas by L Lewis

L Lewis — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:21:02 +0000

Andrew, You provide a conclusion but no facts or links to support it. I don’t know if the Soviet Union ever used the word “sustainability.” But, what if they did? It’s just a word, like “integrity,” “preparedness,” and “fiscal responsibility,” all good words that any country might use. Are we supposed to interpret words, now, based on who uses them? That’s ludicrous.

As for cable television, I can think of many things more beneficial to have in life. My guess is, you’ve been watching too much SciFi channel as it is.

Comment on Information Limited, Frustrations Grow by disasterman

disasterman — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:57:14 +0000

“My idea of camping is a room at the Hilton with a mint on my pillow …”

That is the problem with people like Ms. Shulman. They have completely unrealistic expectations about the aftermath of a disaster. That is why it is called a disaster and not a storm or an inconvenience. Then when their unrealstic expectations are not met, they get mad and frustrated. I’d be real curious to hear what pre-disaster preparations were made by her.