Disaster Preparedness

Helping mid-sized organizations ensure business continuity. Controlling costs and making the best use of scarce resources is critical for the success of mid-sized organizations. To minimize costs it is important to look for business continuity solutions that integrate with and help optimize existing infrastructures, and which can deliver positive business value – increasing productivity, generating competitive advantage or eliminating business risk. Business continuity is not an end in itself but the key to improving performance. This brief explains how Oracle solutions for mid-sized organizations contribute by providing a secure, easily accessible, and always available information infrastructure that's also simple and cost-effective to manage. Request ... Read Full Story

Children play a part in many of our lives. Protecting them becomes an important issue in daily life as well as in an end of the world as you know it moment. However, what happens when adults can’t be there to protect them? What happens when they may need to protect us?             Our government and even many schools across the country, as well as parents and other adults, often do not see the potential in children. I am not talking about the educated potential one might find in the youth of a suburban school, but the potential to rise to the occasion when ... Read Full Story

There is often a good deal of attention paid to the accumulation, storage and usage of critical supplies performed in the process of preparation, but one thing I rarely see discussed is proper management of your carefully gathered inventory before, during or after a critical event comes into being.  It's important to consider viewing your family or team as a quasi business entity and recognize that one of the top cited reasons for small business failure is poor inventory management.  Inventory issues can cause nightmarish headaches for any business, and the consequences for your family will only be magnified if you do not begin to view ... Read Full Story

In the days following a societal collapse, there will be some people who will be on the move from where the problems exist to where they hope safety lies. There can be many reasons why people are on the move, and an equal number of reasons why someone else may wish to stop your progress. Getting on the move and out of a hostile area as early as possible in the wake of a collapse is a significant key to one’s survival, as well has having buddies to cover you during your travel. The sooner you get on the road, the less your chances ... Read Full Story

When hurricanes and other natural disasters strike, it can be very stressful to try and find out if family members and friends are safe and sound. Today's FoxRad Hurricane Briefing guest has designed an innovative website to ease that stress and help keep everyone connected. Alvin Brown, Jr is the creator of wearesafeandsound.com. This website is a free service which provides a platform to communicate an important message to multiple people with one phone call. Mr.Brown explains all the details in today's briefing. View the remainder of Hurricane Briefing for August 20, 2009 Read Full Story

About the video: NationalGeographic wrote: More than 1000 tornadoes touch down in the US every year. When most people are running away, one team of scientists heads straight for the action. See All National Geographic Videos video.nationalgeographic.com Read Full Story

About the video: SquallLion wrote: 2002 © No One Lives forever 2 : a spy in a H.A.R.M's way - FOX / MONOLITHcut scene Read Full Story

About the video: TornadoVideosdotnet wrote: INSANE video from inside the powerful Aurora, Nebraska tornado on June 17, 2009. The tornado intensified right on top of the TornadoVideos.net SRV Dominator, and the window was blown out as an intense mini suction vortex passed over the vehicle. A 138.8 mph wind gust was measured by the roof anemometer as the window blow out. Check out Storm Chasers on Discovery Channel this Fall for the video of the glass slamming into our faces. Read Full Story