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Emergency information and where to get it.

By The Wilderness, on March 12th, 2011%

Thursday night when the news of the 8.9 earthquake in Japan started to come in, we, like many people were looking for information.

We live in an industrial area, in a metal building so we get almost no TV stations. I took my battery powered TV out front and we sat there amazed at the reports and video coming out of Sendai. When we came back in I was able to find some live coverage on the internet, but not a lot. I had no idea were to go for coverage. As a prepper I see this as a major hole in my preps. In the event of a disaster any where in the world, I want to be able to find the information and news coverage I need to be informed. I do not want to be Googling news sources when a disaster hits, I want to have the websites I need already bookmarked, and I want them on my laptops, my Tablet, my phone and my I-pod and on a thumbdrive running Firefox or Google portable applications.

I laid in bed listening to the radio and the news coverage of the Tsunami and decided that I needed to gather together as many news sources as I could.

This morning before work, I was checking the forums that I belong to and of course there where a few posts about the earthquake. Some people had posted some links to various sources for news coverage. I also found out that a dear friend has family in the Sendai and was frantically trying to find out if her family members are OK. One of my coworkers has a daughter who is on the Island of Okinawa, and he was able to get right through to her this morning.

Researching what is available on the internet I have come up with these sites that I found to be helpful.

This is the Emergency E-mail and Wireless Network. You can input the state that you live in and get emergency notifications sent to your e-mail and phone.

This is the U.S. Geological Survey main page. There is a ton of information here, everything from Avian Influenza to Wildfires.

This is a link to justin.tv . They have CNN International, MSNBC, BBC World News, and quite a few local stations.

This is VueToo . You can look at the websites of the major television networks, as well as major newspapers from all over the country. This site can be customized to see what you want. I need to play with it some more to see how I like it.

I am going to do this post in a series, I can see that it is going to take some time to get the information that I want all together and sort out which sites are the most valuable. This will be part of my weekend research.

If you have any sites that you use and you think should be included in this list please post a link in the comments section.

TW

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