How to prepare for a huge disaster when you live in a tiny apartment

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.vox.com/explain-it-to-me/488519/how-to-prep-natural-disaster-pandemic-small-apartment-city

From floods to flames: Sask. spring brings array of natural emergencies
Freezing temperatures over the May long weekend are unwelcome but not surprising in Saskatchewan. It's just the latest weather twist in a province that's used to it. Spring has brought powerful floods, wildfire concerns and dust storms, while snow lingers in some areas.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7202258?cmp=rss

Reuters: Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis over risk of entering flooded roads. “The Alphabet unit said the recall followed an ​incident on April 20 in which a Waymo vehicle ​drove into a flooded lane in San Antonio ⁠during extreme weather. Waymo said the vehicle was unoccupied ​and there were no injuries but the incident prompted the ​company to review similar scenarios involving high […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/14/reuters-waymo-recalls-3800-robotaxis-over-risk-of-entering-flooded-roads/

Why the American Southeast is becoming a new hotspot for wildfires

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.vox.com/climate/488335/southeast-florida-georgia-wildfire-drought-whiplash

From floods to flames: Spring in Sask. brings array of natural emergencies
Powerful floods have been plaguing the province for the last two weeks, damaging homes and destroying fields, but wildfire concerns are cropping up elsewhere at the same time.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/flood-wildfires-natural-emergency-spring-north-9.7197048?cmp=rss

Recent Close Calls for Michigan’s Dams Are a Warning to America

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/05/michigan-dams-inundated-heavy-flooding-disaster-aging-infrastructure-climate-change-lakes-rivers/

Optimism competes with anxiety as northern Sask. continues to deal with floods
English River First Nation residents are returning after a week of displacement, but over 600 Red Earth Cree Nation members must remain away from home.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-northern-communities-flooding-2026-9.7193170?cmp=rss

Alaska landslide set off CN Tower-sized tsunami last year — and a warning for B.C.
When millions of tonnes of rock fell one kilometre into an Alaskan fiord last year, it set off one of the largest tsunamis ever recorded, a monstrous 481-metre wave higher than the tallest viewing platform of the CN Tower, a new study shows.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/alaska-landslide-set-off-cn-tower-sized-tsunami-last-year-and-a-warning-for-b-c-9.7189983?cmp=rss

How Prescribed Burns Can Help Save Taxpayers Billions

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/controlled-prescribed-burns-savings-taxpayers-science-study-trump-forest-service-fire-suppression-policy/

Worried Britons ‘prepping’ for major disruption with stash of tins and cash, survey shows https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/09/worried-britons-prepping-for-major-disruption-with-stash-of-tins-and-cash-survey-shows #Business #Infrastructure #EmergencyPlanning #Society #ExtremeWeather #UkCostOfLivingCrisis #WorldNews #Sterling #BanksAndBuildingSocieties #Money #NaturalDisasters #Cyberwar #Hacking #Internet #UkNews