From the category archives:

disaster

Here are 7 things worth reading …
#1) The News N Economics blog has a good piece on how some countries Europe – Estonia, the United Kingdom and Lithuania are cutting wages.

From News N Economics:  “every country across the 26 countries listed except Belgium, Germany, Greece, and Spain, saw the rate of hourly wage growth decrease since 2008.”
The [...]

If you’re one of the millions of Americans currently snowbound by the freakish storms hammering the mid-Atlantic, you might end up with a lot of time on your hands.  If the cable TV goes out, you and your family might have to start talking to each other.  For some people, that’s going to be terrifying.  [...]

Is Everything You Know About Surviving Earthquakes Wrong?

by Sean Brodrick on February 10, 2010

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake rocked northern Illinois early on Wednesday, shaking an area about 50 miles west-northwest of downtown Chicago. If you think this just happens in Haiti or California, this is a reminder that earthquakes can happen anywhere.  So, it’s time to check our earthquake preparedness.
Previously, I have posted links to this Natural Disaster Guide [...]

A Did you see what’s happening in the Mid-Atlantic.  It is snowing and people are freaking out, including the weatherman …

Meanwhile, supermarkets are jammed as shoppers empty aisles of food — milk, break, whatever they can find.  And snow shovels, LOL.
Man, if only they’d checked out my book, The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide, and prepared [...]

Yellowstone Rumbles a Warning to Be Prepared

by Sean Brodrick on February 4, 2010

Here’s something new to worry about …
Hundreds of Quakes Are Rattling Yellowstone

In the last two weeks, more than 100 mostly tiny earthquakes a day, on average, have rattled a remote area of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, putting scientists who monitor the park’s strange and volatile geology on alert.
Researchers say that for now, the earthquake [...]