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More Record Heat!
High Temps So Far Today Across the Area:DFW: 109Waco: 108NWS Office (Fort Worth): 109Dallas Love Field: 108Mineral Wells: 110Denton: 108Fort Worth Meacham: 108Fort Worth Alliance: 110McKinney:...
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Personalized KnoWhat2Do Pocket Emergency Plan
This handy online app was created under the auspices of Homeland Security. Except for a couple of phone numbers, this app will apply to any individual and family world wide. Freely share this link...
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Indiana Stage Collapse: Fire Dept. Scanner, Incident Command Set Up, etc
Recording of live scanner starting with initial dispatch of emergency FD vehicles and services immediately following stage collapse, incident command set up, some confusion, need for far more medical...
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"Freak Wind" "Fluke" Really? Who Ignored Severe Weather Warning?
Follow meteorologist Mike Smith's blog, Meteorologic Musings, for his ongoing comments re the tragedy at the Indiana State Fair. Smith is the Senior VP of AccuWeather's Enterprise Solutions.Tuesday's...
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Second Hottest Summer on Record : (
As of tomorrow we will have had 57 days over 100 this year. 1980, the hottest summer, had 69. Someone, PLEASE ABSOLUTELY PROMISE ME we are NOT going to break that record in 2011. : ( Unless some popup...
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At the break of dawn
Taken from and by the NWS FWD staff.I saw this at a distance. The NWS reported UFO's at their office. (Unidentified Falling Obejcts). I HEARD thunder, but no UFO's again at my house. After an...
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Official HOTTEST SUMMER - New SKYWARN Training Modules & Spotters Field Guide
September 13th - Record High 107; Set new record for # of days 100 and above at 70. Officially Hottest Summer on Record taking over 1st spot from 1980. Hopefully the horrendously hot summer is OVER....
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Calm Chaos Following Air Show Crash
Article from AP - Discusses the response from First Responders and civilians alike.RACES Leadership last night to finalize content and program for newly required Tarrant County RACES training for new...
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Tutorial on Emergency Power
Battery and other backup power for Ham radio equipment was discussed at the AARC meeting last Friday. Sunday night's very brief storm knocked out power to my neighborhood for almost 5 hours. It was...
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>100 AGAIN / 2012 SKYWARN Training Schedule Posted
DFW hit record high 101 this afternoon breaking old record of 99 in 1953, 16 degrees ABOVE average temps for this date. This makes Day 71 of 100+ so far this year. Waco @ 101. Dates for 2012 SKYWARN...
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The Rest of the Story: Joplin Tornado Survivors
From Esquire magazine: the incredible and moving individual and combined stories of the persons who survived by seeking shelter at the Fasttrip and the amazing video from inside that was quickly aired...
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Walk to End Alzheimers 2011 - Fort Worth
Date: October 15, 2011 - 8:00 a.m.Location: Trinity Park (a beautiful walk through the trees and along the Trinity River just west of downtown Fort Worth)Parking: In the Farrington Field Parking Lot, a...
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Texas Rangers & the ALCS Playoffs - OEM Gearing up for World Series
I am at best a barely nominal baseball fan. I didn't even realize the Rangers were going to the playoffs until they were IN the playoffs. But who can ignore the local excitement when the Rangers go...
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Amateur Radio Operators Support Alzheimer's Walk, Fort Worth Trinity Park,...
IF the World Series goes to game 5, I'm scheduled to monitor the EOC radios on the 24th.Alzeimer's Walk Route Mapthrough Trinity Park.I met Gerry, RACES liason for the Fort Worth Joint EOC, outside of...
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CERT Pot Luck, AARC Christmas Party & Jingle Bell Run
CERT Christmas Pot-Luck - December 21st: Held at the Fire Training Center. With Irish and Matt from the OEM, there were maybe 15 or 18 of us there. Nice camaraderie. Sincere thank yous and kudos from...
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* * * Merry Christmas * * *To each and all who drop in now and then to see what's happening in my world, my family and I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah, a wonderful...
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2011 Tornados
Caused the highest number of deaths (528) since 1925 despite all the progress that has been made in advanced warnings. Here's a one minute animation of the location of those tornadoes.
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April 3rd Arlington, TX Tornado
Not only did my hard drive crash AGAIN a couple of weeks ago, I've been very busy helping out at the Office of Emergency Management as the result of the tornado in SW Arlington on 4/3. Two supercells...
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ARRL Article on NTx Tornadoes & Amateur Radio Response
http://www.arrl.org/news/north-texas-hams-respond-when-tornados-strikeMentions me.
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