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AlertDC Sends Out Severe Thunderstorm Watch/Flash Flood Warnings As Red Cross “Emergency Data Crisis Summit” Begins — Reminder: You Can Follow/Participate In Event Remotely Throughout Day

August 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment

I am in Washington this morning and was about to walk over to the American Red Cross’ “Emergency Social Data Summit” when – maybe appropriately considering the topic of the event — I received on my BlackBerry from the District of Columbia’s Emergency Management Agency’s AlertDC “Flood Warning” and “Severe Thunderstorm Watch” e-mail/text:

National Weather Service has issued a Sever Thunder Storm warning for the District Of Columbia and Metropolitan area. Scattered showers & Thunderstorms will affect the Washington area until 745AM Thunderstorms will contain cloud to ground lighting along with Locally heavy rain hail size of quarters with damaging winds in excess of 60MPH Storm moving southwest at 25MPH

Though the participants do not need any more motivation, the weather will only underscore the need for this summit. You can follow and participate in the conference remotely. More information on doing so and the conference can be found in yesterday’s post. I will be writing about the event later in the day.

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Tags: Preparedness 2.0 · Red Cross

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