Tuesday, May 31, 2011

[Geology2] The Algodones Dunes--Awesome!




The Algodones Dunes
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The Algodones Dunes in southeastern California include an array of formations. Four different types of sand dunes are on display in this true-color image captured by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on February 24, 2011.

The oldest of the dunes are the large, compound crescentic dunes in the middle of the field. Compound crescentic dunes are crescent-shaped and have other dunes on top of them. The crests run diagonally, southwest to northeast. This orientation is an indication that the dunes formed earlier than others in the field, at a time when wind conditions were different. The compound crescentic dunes are between 15,000 and 18,000 years old and slowly creeping southeast.

The rest of the dunes in the image are younger. Most are simple crescentic dunes (the most common type in the world) that get their crescent shape when winds blow consistently in the same direction. These dunes are migrating toward the east-southeast. The western crescentic dunes and the crescentic dune on top of the larger compound dunes are older than the eastern sand fields, which are constantly being reshaped by water flowing from the Cargo Muchacho Mountains in the east and by the plants that grow in the waterways. (The waterways and plants are fine, dark lines in the upper right corner.)

The last type of formation, linear dunes and associated zibars, are also part of the younger generation. The linear dunes run in long lines down the western edge of the field. The zibars cross between linear dunes and likely formed from courser sand settling in the valley as the linear dunes migrate eastward.

Though the mountains of sand that make up the Algodones field could not seem more different from the irrigated green fields of the Imperial Valley a few miles to the west, the two are closely related. Both are artifacts of Lake Cahuilla, a large freshwater lake that occasionally forms in southern California. The lake fills when the Colorado River Delta clogs with silt, diverting the river to the north into the Imperial Valley. It slowly disappears when the river returns to its former course, leaving a layer of silt that provides rich farmland. The waves on the eastern shore also deposit fine sediment and sand that have formed the dune field.

  1. References

  2. Derickson, D., Kocurek, G., Ewing, R.C., and Bristow, C. (2008). Origin of a complex and spatially diverse dune-field pattern, Algodones, southeastern California. Geomorphology, 99. 186-204.
  3. Singer, E. (n.d.) Ancient Lake Cahuilla. San Diego State University Center for Inland Waters. Accessed March 11, 2011.
  4. United States Geological Survey. (1997, October 29). Types of dunes. Accessed March 11, 2011.

NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team and the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

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[Geology2] Spring 2011 Biconoid Hunt on Eclectic Arcania



Last Saturday the Santa Lucia Rockhounds conducted a field trip to a Biconoid bed and I posted an account of the adventure on my blog here:

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[Volcano_Vista_HS] Senior Video



Seniors,

If you did not picked up your Senior Video on Friday,
Please pick it up in the Front Office with Mrs. Ewing
Please do so as soon as possible!    :D


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[Geology2] Report Challenges Haiti Quake Death Toll



Significantly fewer people died or were left homeless by last year's earthquake in Haiti than claimed by the country's leaders, a draft report commissioned by the US government has said.

From the BBC

The unpublished report puts the death toll between 46,000 and 85,000. Haiti's government says about 316,000 died.

It also suggests many of those still living in tent cities did not lose their homes in the disaster.

Haitian authorities have stood by the figures released last year.

The draft report, which has yet to be released publicly, is based on a survey commissioned by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and draws its numbers from door-to-door surveys carried out over 29 days in January 2011.

But US State Department spokeswoman Preeti Shah told the Associated Press News Agency the report had inconsistencies and would not be released until they were resolved.

Analysts say the new figures could challenge the premise of a multi-billion-dollar aid and reconstruction effort.

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[californiadisasters] On This Date In CA Weather History (May 31)



On This Date In California Weather History....

2001: Fresno reached 106 degrees, marking the 9th time this month the high reached into the triple digits.
This set a record for the most triple digit high temperatures in May.

2001: It was 93° in Idyllwild, the highest temperature on record for May.
This also occurred on 5.29.1984.
It was 91° in Palomar Mountain, the highest temperature on record for May.
This also occurred on 5.28.2003.

1998: Fresno reached a high of only 85 degrees and in Bakersfield the high reached 84 degrees.
This was the warmest reading of the month at both locations and only the 3rd May on record in both cities that the high temperature never cracked 90 degrees (also occurred in May 1917 and 1961).

1971: 8.0 inches of snow fell at Glenbrook, its all-time record one-day total for May.

1910: Earliest 110 degree high temperatures on record at Fresno and Bakersfield.
Also the highest temperatures ever recorded at both locations for May.
In Lemon Cove, the high reached a sweltering 118 degrees, the highest on record here in May.

Source: NWS Hanford, Reno & San Diego

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Monday, May 30, 2011

[californiadisasters] Emergency Communications Exercises

I have DRAFT versions of three standardized e-comm exercises focusing on
how to prepare for (planning workshop and tabletop) and respond to
(drill) soft road closures staffed by emergency communicators/volunteer
radio operators (scheduling/staffing/safety/feeding/administration).

These exercises feature a specially-adapted version of the ICS for
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sections and adapted ICS structures, systems and forms.

They are in PDF format and free for the asking. Please contact me off
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Be safe. Get prepared. Stay ready.

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RE: [Geology2] Volcano Kills Fish Pictures



Note to self:  Stay UPwind

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From: geology2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:geology2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Lin Kerns
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 4:52 PM
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Subject: [Geology2] Volcano Kills Fish Pictures

 

 

Volcano Kills Fish Pictures

By M&C May 29, 2011

Filipinos collect dead fish in Taal Lake, Batangas province, south of Manila, Philippines, 29 May 2011. A sudden change in water temperature of a lake surrounding a restive volcano in the Philippines has killed more than 700 metric tons of fish, a government agency said. The bureau said 752 metric tons of milkfish and tilapia have been found floating in Taal Lake, which surrounds Taal Volcano. The volcano has been showing signs of heightened activity since April, when the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised its five-tiered alert level to two.  EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN

Filipinos collect dead fish in Taal Lake, Batangas province, south of Manila, Philippines, 29 May 2011. A sudden change in water temperature of a lake surrounding a restive volcano in the Philippines has killed more than 700 metric tons of fish, a government agency said. The bureau said 752 metric tons of milkfish and tilapia have been found floating in Taal Lake, which surrounds Taal Volcano. The volcano has been showing signs of heightened activity since April, when the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised its five-tiered alert level to two. EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN


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[Geology2] Big earthquake risk put at 23 per cent





Big earthquake risk put at 23 per cent
PAUL GORMAN
 
Canterbury has a nearly one-in-four chance of a third major earthquake of up to magnitude-7.0 during the next year, officials have been warned.
 
The forecast from Government research agency GNS Science for those charged with helping rebuild the damaged region will come as news to the public, who are still waiting to find out what scientists have discovered below Christchurch and the Canterbury Plains.
 
Christchurch City councillors and community board members were told of the risk of another large quake at a meeting of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (Cera), chaired by Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee, last Wednesday night.
 
Incoming Cera chief executive Roger Sutton said his advice from GNS Science was for:
 
A 23 per cent chance of a magnitude-6.0 to 7.0 quake in the next year, dropping to a 10 per cent risk the following year.
 
More than 90 per cent chance of a magnitude-5.0 to 6.0 shake in the next 12 months, falling to more than a 70 per cent chance in the following year.
 
Those figures might not have seen the light of day for at least another couple of weeks if Cr Sue Wells had not included them in her blog at the weekend.
 
"It's now thought that we are looking at a longer-term seismic series," she said in her blog.
 
"Nobody was able to answer questions about Mercalli scale or G-force [gravitational acceleration] or depth, so you can take those figures for what they're worth. What we are seemingly certain of is that you shouldn't put your Blu-Tack away just yet."
 
Wells told The Press yesterday it was made clear at the meeting they could share the forecast figures with the community.
 
At the start of February, GNS Science said there was a 25 per cent chance of an aftershock of magnitude 6.0 or more affecting Christchurch or Canterbury during the next year.
 
Only three weeks later, the magnitude-6.3 quake at 12.51pm on February 22 killed 182 people and caused massive damage.
 
Nobody died in the September 4 magnitude-7.1 quake, which ripped open a 30-kilometre gash across the Canterbury Plains between Hororata and Rolleston.
 
One focus for researchers over the past month has been the aftershock-rich "gap" between the eastern end of the Greendale Fault and the western end of the Port Hills Fault.
 
Scientists want to know what is going on between the two, with some concerned that any faults in the gap may rupture and link the two bigger faults.
 
GNS Science spokesman John Callan confirmed the figures given to Cera and councillors were calculated by hazards modeller Dr Matthew Gerstenberger at the Crown research institute.
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Callan said it was important to remember the figures related not just to Christchurch but the whole Canterbury aftershock zone, from Sheffield in the west to Rangiora in the north, Lincoln in the south and across Banks Peninsula.
 
Gerstenberger said the longer-period aftershock forecasts given to Cera were based on earlier projections and used the same computer model that calculated possible quakes over the next few weeks.
 
The GeoNet website is predicting between one and 10 quakes of magnitude 4.0 to 4.9, and zero to two of magnitude 5.0 and above, in the period from May 19 and June 18.
 
- The Press
 
 

 



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Re: [californiadisasters] On This Date In CA Weather History (May 30)



Have you ever heard of Synchronicity? Glad everything worked out well.



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Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] On This Date In CA Weather History (May 30)



The slide mentioned on Slide Mountain...my family was almost caught in the mudflow, which would have killed us for sure...we were kept from it by a flat tire 5 miles before where the flow came through...very scary day

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From: Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com>
Subject: [californiadisasters] On This Date In CA Weather History (May 30)
To: "CaliforniaDisasters" <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, May 30, 2011, 11:12 AM

 
On This Date In California Weather History....

2002: Thunderstorms dropped 1.01" of rain at the Hanford Airport in just 21 minutes in the afternoon resulting in street flooding in the city.
In just an hour, some 260 lightning strikes were recorded in the central and southern San Joaquin Valley.

1991: China Lake NAS clocked an 89 mph gust from the west, tied for the highest on record here (also had an 89 mph gust on January 14, 1950).

1984: Remarkably, on the same day of the highest maximum and minimum temperatures, Borrego Springs also recorded its record rainfall for this day.

1984: Intense winds, gusting as high as 60 mph, blew across Kern County shattering windows, knocking air conditioning units off roofs and toppling trees.
A number of utility poles also were knocked down, some which were leveled by "a wall of wind and dust".
On this same date, Fresno only dropped to 76 degrees for low, making it the warmest minimum temperature on record for the month of May.

1983: Very heavy rain caused a mudslide on Slide Mountain. The resulting debris flow that was sent down Ophir Creek forced the closure of U.S. Highway 395.

1918: It was 32° in Victorville, the latest date in the season with a freezing temperature on record.

Source: NWS Hanford, Reno, & San Diego

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Re: [californiadisasters] On This Date In CA Weather History (May 30)



The slide mentioned on Slide Mountain...my family was almost caught in the mudflow, which would have killed us for sure...we were kept from it by a flat tire 5 miles before where the flow came through...very scary day

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From: Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com>
Subject: [californiadisasters] On This Date In CA Weather History (May 30)
To: "CaliforniaDisasters" <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, May 30, 2011, 11:12 AM

 
On This Date In California Weather History....

2002: Thunderstorms dropped 1.01" of rain at the Hanford Airport in just 21 minutes in the afternoon resulting in street flooding in the city.
In just an hour, some 260 lightning strikes were recorded in the central and southern San Joaquin Valley.

1991: China Lake NAS clocked an 89 mph gust from the west, tied for the highest on record here (also had an 89 mph gust on January 14, 1950).

1984: Remarkably, on the same day of the highest maximum and minimum temperatures, Borrego Springs also recorded its record rainfall for this day.

1984: Intense winds, gusting as high as 60 mph, blew across Kern County shattering windows, knocking air conditioning units off roofs and toppling trees.
A number of utility poles also were knocked down, some which were leveled by "a wall of wind and dust".
On this same date, Fresno only dropped to 76 degrees for low, making it the warmest minimum temperature on record for the month of May.

1983: Very heavy rain caused a mudslide on Slide Mountain. The resulting debris flow that was sent down Ophir Creek forced the closure of U.S. Highway 395.

1918: It was 32° in Victorville, the latest date in the season with a freezing temperature on record.

Source: NWS Hanford, Reno, & San Diego

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[californiadisasters] U.S. Weighs Tighter Restrictions on Fire Retardant Drops



The proposed limits are intended to reduce drops on and near waterways, where they can kill fish, and to slightly expand the acreage that is off limits to retardant releases for ecological reasons.

The U.S. Forest Service is weighing tighter restrictions on aerial fire retardant drops as part of a long-running legal battle over the environmental effects of pouring millions of gallons of the chemical mixture on Western wildlands every year.

Retardant use has soared in recent decades as wildfires have grown larger and more houses have been built on the wildland edge. Nationally, federal and state agencies apply an average of more than 28 million gallons a year, the vast majority of it in the West and much of that in California.
Nearly a third of the retardant used by the Forest Service in the last decade has been in California, where urban development abuts fire-prone wildlands and weather and terrain regularly produce monster blazes.

The proposed limits, outlined in a recently released environmental document, are not expected to cut overall usage. Rather, they are intended to reduce drops on and near waterways, where they can kill fish, and to slightly expand the acreage that is off limits to retardant releases for ecological reasons.

The draft guidelines follow two court decisions that forced federal agencies to reexamine the environmental effects of retardants and the steps that can be taken to minimize harm to endangered species.

"We made a concerted effort to address [the court's] concerns," said Glen Stein, who oversaw the environmental review.

Forest Service guidelines adopted in 2000 bar retardant drops within 300 feet of a body of water. But there are several exceptions: Pilots can release a load over a stream or lake zone if it's necessary to protect life, property or because of terrain limitations.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which annually applies an average of 5 million to 6 million gallons of retardant, roughly twice as much as what the Forest Service drops in the state, also follows the 2000 regulations.

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[californiadisasters] On This Date In CA Weather History (May 30)



On This Date In California Weather History....

2002: Thunderstorms dropped 1.01" of rain at the Hanford Airport in just 21 minutes in the afternoon resulting in street flooding in the city.
In just an hour, some 260 lightning strikes were recorded in the central and southern San Joaquin Valley.

1991: China Lake NAS clocked an 89 mph gust from the west, tied for the highest on record here (also had an 89 mph gust on January 14, 1950).

1984: Remarkably, on the same day of the highest maximum and minimum temperatures, Borrego Springs also recorded its record rainfall for this day.

1984: Intense winds, gusting as high as 60 mph, blew across Kern County shattering windows, knocking air conditioning units off roofs and toppling trees.
A number of utility poles also were knocked down, some which were leveled by "a wall of wind and dust".
On this same date, Fresno only dropped to 76 degrees for low, making it the warmest minimum temperature on record for the month of May.

1983: Very heavy rain caused a mudslide on Slide Mountain. The resulting debris flow that was sent down Ophir Creek forced the closure of U.S. Highway 395.

1918: It was 32° in Victorville, the latest date in the season with a freezing temperature on record.

Source: NWS Hanford, Reno, & San Diego

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[Geology2] Javan mud survivors scrape by in misery



Javan mud survivors scrape by in misery


Java mudslide

More than 9m of mud sludge is piled up under the Lusi volcano. Source: AFP

IT was a bleak anniversary for Muhammad Budi and Sarwi, marked as every other day for the past five years by Lusi's sulphurous white plume rising from the middle of 640ha of grey-black devastation.

Before May 29, 2006, the two men had family homes, communities and good jobs, but today they scrape a miserable living showing gawkers around the edges of the freakish Sidorajo mud volcano, which ruined their lives.

Sarwi, 42, remembers the Monday morning everything changed. He was breakfasting with his wife and daughter before his shift at a nearby steel plant. "There was a loud bang, a very bad smell, then we saw a fountain of boiling mud. Everybody ran to the village office but there was not enough space for us all," he said.

Sarwi's house in Tampak Siring village was 300m from the world's worst mud eruption - triggered, most scientists believe, by a gas-drilling accident - and is today buried beneath a vast mud dome.

He scrapes a living as an ojek (motorcycle taxi) rider on the 15m-high rock embankment shielding the highway, railway and neighbourhoods on the western flank of Lusi, short for Lumpur (mud) Sidorajo.

The area's ojek association is open only to men from the devastated zone, such as Sarwi and his friend Budi, 28, who had his own scrap business there five years ago.

Their customers - at best one or two each per day, says Sarwi - are mostly sightseers.

Lusi has spewed more than 150 million cubic metres of sterile sludge across a once-prosperous mixed district of farms, light industry and suburban housing on the southern fringe of Surabaya, East Java's largest city.

More than 40,000 people have lost their homes, 33 schools are laid to waste, 65 mosques shut, 30 factories gone, hundreds of smallholdings and fish farms are ruined and thousands of jobs lost.

Groundwater has been fouled beyond the inundated area and hundreds of homes have been demolished by householders relocating brick by brick from spoiled water, reeking air and the continuing threat of wall breaches.

The transport corridor to Surabaya's industrial port, Tanjung Perak, remains severely disrupted, and what used to be a four-hour truck journey can now take 10 hours.

Since Wednesday, the disruption has been worsened by hundreds of protesters sporadically blocking the highway in their campaign to be included in compensation schemes run by BPLS, the government's Lusi disaster management body, and drilling company Lapindo Brantas.

"We've been protesting for five years," said neighbourhood organiser Bambang Subandrio.

"But there's never any answer - we just keep getting the bad water and smelly air."

The government's national audit office has calculated that Lusi's accumulated economic costs will reach $US3.46 trillion ($3.23 trillion) in 2015.

"Perhaps the most devastating and defining aspect of this disaster, as opposed to others, has been the loss of community experienced by the victims," says a new social impact report prepared by Humanitas Foundation, an Australian charity.

"I liked it most at Idul Fitri (the end-of-Ramadan feast) when everyone was here, but now our families, everyone, is scattered," says Budi, standing on the embankment's southwest corner above the grey brackish water and sulphurous mud submerging his village, Jatirejo.

Like most of the displaced, Budi and Sarwi lived on land handed down through generations of family, fixed in their communities.

But not for their children, the ojek men are reminded each day as they ride along the wall.

About 14,000 families have been cut off from their heritage. Hundreds more would risk severing those ties if they could get government money to escape from Lusi's poisoned surroundings.

It hardly matters to those people that hopes are rising that Lusi's worst might have passed.

The daily mud flows have fallen to about 10,000cu m, down from an average of more than 100,000cu m , and after almost five years of continuous eruption, the volcano now goes quiet for up to 13 minutes at a time. "It's changed its behaviour and that's a positive thing," said Durham University geologist Richard Davies, a leading authority on Lusi.

He thinks pressure in the aquifer, pushing water from 2.8km below the surface, might be equalising with pressure at the surface, although subterranean gas continues pushing mud upwards.

In a paper in February, Professor Davies calculated the eruption would probably continue for 26 years before reaching manageable levels - less than a 1000cu m daily flow. Now he's recalculating.

However, he warned that events could still go badly wrong for the people living around Lusi.

The most dangerous of the possibilities would be a major collapse of the mud dome - in one area the surface has subsided 12m in a year - spreading the damage outside the walls.

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Re: [californiadisasters] If a Tornado Were Headed Toward You, What Would You Do



One of our tornado preparedness articles can be downloaded at http://www.disasterprep101.com/documents/Tornadoes.pdf
 
It uses the acronym STORMS (Shelter, Time, Others, Resources, Medical, and Sweeping up) to categorize planning and reaction options.
 
Paul Purcell
 
>>In a message dated 5/30/2011 4:39:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com writes:

*If a Tornado Were Headed Toward You, What Would You Do? *

By Fred Mann | The Wichita Eagle

WICHITA, Kan. — A lesson from the tragedy in Joplin, Mo., is that tornadoes
may strike with little or no warning, hidden by rain or nearly transparent
until they kick up dust and debris.

You might be shopping, visiting a nursing home, driving a car or attending a
movie.

Emergency officials recommend following these basic guidelines if you find
yourself in an unfamiliar place when a tornado approaches:
<SNIP>

View entire article here:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/05/28/114937/what-to-do-if-a-tornados-heading.html#ixzz1NmDrhwyB

 


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[Volcano_Vista_HS] Oops! Sorry...Makeup exams are May 31st NOT June 1st.



So sorry...Your humble moderator was typing in a bit of a fog this morning! The makeup finals at tomorrow, May 31st. Thanks to Ms. Atencio for catching that!


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[Volcano_Vista_HS] Reminder: June 1st School ONLY Finals Make-Up Day



Students who missed a final on either last Thursday or Friday, will have a makeup day tomorrow. Please make sure your student has completed their finals so they end the year strong!


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Sunday, May 29, 2011

[Volcano_Vista_HS] Last Day of School, 5/31/2011, 12:00 am



Reminder from:   Volcano_Vista_HS Yahoo! Group
 
Title:   Last Day of School
 
Date:   Tuesday May 31, 2011
Time:   12:00 am - 1:00 am
Notes:   The NM Public Education Department denied our request for a waiver of the day of instruction missed on Feb. 4 due to the statewide gas shortage, therefore, APS will hold classes for students on Tuesday, May 31, the day after the Memorial Day holiday. Because this is the last day of school, it will be a half-day, which means schools will not serve lunch on this day.
 
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Re: [californiadisasters] Damaging Winds Warnings (05/29/11-AM)

We did indeed have damaging winds. LAFD reported both power lines down and a
tree down. I'm sure there was more.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Noyes" <kimnoyes@gmail.com>
To: "CaliforniaDisasters" <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 1:11 PM
Subject: [californiadisasters] Damaging Winds Warnings (05/29/11-AM)


> ...STRONG TO LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT...
>
> .STRONG TO LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT


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Re: [californiadisasters] If a Tornado Were Headed Toward You, What Would You Do?

Yes. I didn't make any effort to elaborate on this, but the NOAA alert
system cooperates with local public safety to alert the public to
non-weather events. You've mentioned fires, and other need for evacuation;
they also do Amber Alerts (abducted children).

Further, many such radios can be programmed to pass through/alert on only
the areas and the events the user wants (e.g. you don't have to waken to the
siren every time an Amber Alert is broadcast, or even for flash flood
warnings for six counties away).

As you say, "one needs to stay alert for the unexpected".


----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] If a Tornado Were Headed Toward You, What
Would You Do?


> NWS warns for more than just weather events which tend to be more on the
> mild side in the LA Basin, occasional tornado warnings and severe
> thunderstorm warnings and flash flood warnings and Santa Ana Wind warnings
> and even less frequent tsunami warnings notwithstanding.
>
> That being said one needs to stay alert for the unexpected...

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[californiadisasters] South Ops News & Notes Update (05/29/11-6PM)



Date

Time

News and Notes

05/29

1800

Cove Inc. CA-SQF-1246 Kern Co. Update

Lake Isabella, Kern Co.

Incident transitioned to a type 4 Incident Management Organization

and back to the Sequoia NF

Fire has burned 1,122 acres and is 98% contained

Incident will begin rehab for the fire.

This will be the last report for this incident unless conditions change.

05/28

1200

Cove Inc. CA-SQF-1246 Kern Co. Update

Mountain Mesa, Lake Isabella, Kern Co.

Incident transitioned from Unified Command at 0600 hrs today.

Fire has burned 1,122 acres and is 85% contained

Sequoia Forest will continue suppression efforts on

the forest lands where needed and the state lands are in patrol status.

Resources are continuing the demob process.

All CALFIRE resources have been released

Remaining resources continue to mop up in the riparian area.

Weather from Weldon, mostly cloudy with reports of light rain, temp

50.0 °F, RH 56%, Wind 17.4 mph from SW, Gust 17.4 mph

5/28

0800

Cove Inc. CA-SQF1234  Community of Mountain Mesa

Incident remains in Unified Command (Sequoia NF, BLM and CALFIRE)

Fire started on Federal DPA and burned onto State DPA

Fire has burned approximately 1,316 ACRES and is 25% contained

Evacuation Center was closed late last night

Fire is still active in the N/E corner of the Incident adjacent to riparian area

There has not been any recorded fire history in the

N/E corner of Incident (riparian area) since the early 1900's

Due to safety concerns and hazards, crews will work within the riparian

areas during day operations only

Gusty winds are expected to continue throughout the next operational period

Values at risk are the riparian areas which is habitat to the Willow Fly Catcher and the communities of Weldon and South Lake

5/27

1930

Cove Inc. CA-SQF-1246  1234 Kern Co. Update (Corrected Inc. #)

Mountain Mesa / Kissack Bay area, Highway 178 Lake Isabella, Kern Co.

Per Sequoia NF ECC containment & control efforts have been hampered

by strong windy conditions. Fire is estimated at 1,356 acres

(838 Fed, 518 State) with a majority of the fire on the north side of Hwy 178.

Fire is reported to have moved into the South fork Wilderness area

Per SQF ECC & CHP CAD WEB@1658hrs

Hwy 178 from Sierra – Poplar is closed with traffic being diverted

around Lake Isabella via Sierra Way.

Voluntary evacuations remain in place for portions of the

subdivisions of Mountain Mesa and South Lake

Evacuation center is located at the Lake Isabella

Senior Center 6409 Lake Isabella Blvd. at Senior Center and remains open.

Source: http://gacc.nifc.gov/oscc/predictive/intelligence/news_notes/index.htm

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