All posts in: "Disaster preparations"
- Planning ahead in 2021
Planning ahead in 2021 was the order of the day. Planning is a funny thing. Sometimes it may look as thought we aren’t doing very…
- Starting 2021 – what are we thinking?
How do we all deal with starting 2021, the New Year under these COVID circumstances? Well, we aren’t sure all this media focus on ourselves…
- Absorbed in the COVID crisis in 2020?
Wings Like Eagles’ people spent much of 2020 absorbed in COVID crisis and with international responses to it. As we all felt, we have a…
- 2019 – Get ready for Cyclone Idai
To be effective, you have to get ready: in 2019 it was Cyclone Idai. This post describes how we got ready. Readiness is a key…
- Disasters in 2018 – Our analysis
We look at the number of disasters in 2018 to help us keep focused. We cant be everywhere, but we do aim to be ready for the worst events.
- 2016 – We learnt lots from a tough time
We learnt lots in 2016 In order to make progress solving tough problems, every so often we learnt lots. Looking back, we did in 2016.…
- 2014 – A tough problem to solve – disaster response
Tough problem. Some people may find this quote from Warren Buffet Jr a bit tough! Sorry about that, but it helps us focus on a…
- The DROP Logger is born – 2013
There are little disasters and big disasters. We try to respond to both. In the smaller disasters we deploy a ground coordinator. The 2013 floods…
- Flying again in South Africa
Flying again. We have done it! We flew both aid cargo and disaster relief surveys in Xia-Xia in Mozambique in February. See what disaster support we…
- Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2012
The Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2012 has been published by the Centre for Research Into the Epidemiology of Disasters in Belgium. We used them first…
