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“It’s so easy to see the holes in the roof or the mud in the living room, but we can’t drive by and see what’s going on in somebody’s soul,” said Erik Ogren, BGEA’s media relations director. Chaplains trained to handle crisis, tragedy, trauma and grief are playing a significant role in the recovery from […]
The Safest Cities In the U.S. in 2024 This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Threats to safety in the U.S. range from health crises and natural disasters to financial challenges like unaffordable mortgages, […]
At a bridge where Bloor Street crosses the Humber river, a memorial plaque and a marker in the shape of a wave outline the history of Canada’s deadliest hurricane. Hurricane Hazel hit the city of Toronto on October 15, 1954. According to historians, winds reached 77 miles per hour (124 kilometers per hour) as a […]
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The mountains of British Columbia tend to be extremely steep because they’ve been oversteepened by deep and extensive glacial downcutting. The result is that slopes are extremely unstable; gravity will have its way eventually. That’s what happened in Sunshine Valley around 7 a.m. on January 9, 1965. It was originally thought that a small earthquake […]
(OPINION) To the shock of the state of North Carolina, where my wife Nancy and I have lived since 2003, Hurricane Helene wreaked massive devastation, taking at least 118 lives with at least 92 still missing. No one saw this coming, and it has brought unimaginable suffering to whole communities living in the mountains of […]
NASHVILLE — Hurricane Katrina’s destruction in 2005 to New Orleans and surrounding areas prompted a yearslong response by Southern Baptist churches and Disaster Relief personnel, with volunteer recruitment for the latter spiking up to 80,000. Coy Webb, director for Send Relief Crisis Response, wouldn’t be surprised to see something similar for the damage from hurricanes […]