Be Ready Utah: #Prepare Tuesday Basics (Week 18): Designate an out-of-state emergency contact. Make sure everyone knows who the contact is, how, and when they need to be contacted. Do one thing each week to prepare with Be Ready Utah #DisasterPreparation
Weather prep task for the day: did more work filling a thermal gap between my kitchen and the outside (note to self: you should have trusted that little voice that said "maybe you should insulate that before the contractors come, because they might not be so careful to insulate that spot"). #disasterpreparation#heatwaves
Fire Prep tasks done so far today: 1. Blew all the loose leaves away from the house on one side, and into the areas with mulch. Watered that mulch well so that it's nice and damp. 2. Removed pile of free wood (eventually will go towards garden beds, etc.) from the side of the house. 3. Trimmed some bushes with many dry lower leaves. More to do! #FireWx#wildfires#SantaAnaWinds#CAwx
Essentially doing these steps a wildland fire crew would do if a vegetation fire threatened the house---although there are a few trees I suspect a crew would chainsaw if the house was really threatened (Fruit trees: I like those trees, so they remain a threat).
Remove combustibles immediately next to the structure and scatter fire wood
Remove vegetation from the immediate area of the structure
Have garden hose(s) charged and place strategically around structure for immediate use
"Emergency department visits per 100,000 population during concurrent 5 day heat wave and blackout events in Atlanta Phoenix (by scenario)" - If I am reading this correctly, Current day blackout with 5 day heatwave in Phoenix models 56,486 visits per 100,000 people -- assuming no mitigation (ie cool roofs, street trees), and temperatures at current day (vs. future). #heatwaves#heat#DisasterPreparation#disastershttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acs.est.2c09588