Hurricane Earl Response:
National VOADs member organizations are keeping a close watch on Hurricane Earl as the storm gains strength in the Atlantic Ocean.
Web Users Increasingly Rely on Social Media to Seek Help in a Disaster
The online survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. It found that if they needed help and couldnt reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agencys Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders.
Faiths Band Together When Trouble Strikes
For every hurricane, earthquake or flood, there is help: food, bottled water, crews of volunteers nailing shingles to brand new roofs.
What even grateful recipients of that aid may not realize is that much of it comes from an unlikely hodgepodge of religious groups who put aside their doctrinal differences, and coordinate their efforts as soon as the wind starts blowing.
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