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Top 10 Concerns For 2014
There are many problems on the world's table that are of major concern. Life may change enough in the next year or so that everyone would be clearly impacted. The 10 problems provided here are
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Cameron Confronted By Angry Flood Resident
Anger was growing last night as tens of thousands of homes faced a fourth night without power. Vast swathes of the country have been left in desperate conditions during the Christmas period after bad weather
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Video: Are You Prepared For The ‘Drill’ Next Week?
An electrical grid joint drill simulation is being planned in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Thousands of utility workers, FBI agents, anti-terrorism experts, governmental agencies, and more than 150 private businesses are involved
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IRS Advises of Power Outage Ahead of Grid Ex Electricity Drill: “This service will be unavailable”
Next week on November 13th and 14th the Department of Homeland Security will be engaging in a widespread power outage drill involving scores of international government agencies and business in an effort to test
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Blizzard hammers U.S. Northeast, five dead, 700,000 lose power
A record-breaking blizzard packing hurricane-force winds hammered the northeastern United States on Saturday, cutting power to 700,000 homes and businesses, shutting down travel and leaving at least five people dead. The mammoth storm that stretched
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How to Preserve Your Food Without Electricity
Whether you’re facing Hurricane Sandy or not, it is essential to know at least a few ways in which you can preserve your food without any electricity. If you reside on the East Coast
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9 Tips for Food Safety When the Grid Goes Down
Recently, 600 million people in India were without power for two days. According to news sources, the suspected cause was one of simple supply and demand: more people wanted power than the Indian infrastructure
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When the power goes out…….have a black out kit
Power outages can be caused by a wide variety of sources including general utility problems, winter storms, lightening strikes, wind storms as well as grid overload. There are numerous other causes but for
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Nine Steps to Take Now to Prepare for the Perfect Storm of Civil Unrest
According to an Army field manual “In these modern times, demonstrations, civil unrest, public disorder, and riots happen for a number of reasons. Some of these reasons are economic hardships, social injustices, ethnic differences (leading
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This Is What 670 Million People Without Power Look Like: Pictures From A Blacked Out India
First thing today we reported that India just suffered what may have been the biggest blackout in history, after half of the country's population of 1.2 billion, or just under 700 million was without
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Survival Basics: Preparing for a Grid Down Power Outage
Recent storms in my own area reminded me that power outages resulting in a grid down can happen anytime, to anybody, anywhere. Some outages are planned, some are the result of mother nature
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