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How to Survive a Flood, Overlooked & Essential Safety Tips

By Chris Gilmour
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April 23, 2019

How to Survive a Flood, Overlooked & Essential Safety Tips2017 and 2019 brought large scale and many record-breaking floods across Canada, the United States, and the rest of the world. How to survive a flood, and knowing what to do before and during a flood are becoming essential knowledge. Many...

How to Stay Warm in Winter, Mind, Body, Shelter

By Chris Gilmour
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February 16, 2019

How to Stay Warm in Winter, Mind, Body, ShelterIn this post, I would like to invite you to deepen your relationship with a fundamental human need, How to Stay Warm in Winter and Shelter. Knowledge of the principles of shelter is something ALL humans used to have as an essential...

Survive a Tornado, What You Need to Know and Common Myths

By Chris Gilmour
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September 2, 2018

Survive a Tornado: What You Need to Know and Common Myths. The alarm was followed by the announcement that a "Tornado Warning" (different than a “Tornado Watch”) had been issued for most of Southern Ontario. The highest risk area was just south of me and I had friends and family in the...

What You Need to Know, a FREE Mini Course in Emergency & Disaster Preparedness

By Chris Gilmour
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August 25, 2018

What You Need to Know, A FREE Audio Mini Course in Emergency & Disaster PreparednessOne of the primary goals of Changing World is to help our community be better prepared for the many changes happening in the world right now. This means making the steps towards emergency and disaster preparedness...

Ice Storm Preparedness Checklist

By Chris Gilmour
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April 14, 2018

How to Prepare for an Ice StormIf you would like to skip right to the action list, then scroll down to the Winter Storm Preparedness Checklist, below the intro.The Montreal Ice Storm of 1998 & the Ice Storm of 2013Do you remember the Montreal Ice Storm of 1998 or the Ice...

8 Less Known Tips, Prepare for Winter Storms, Extreme Cold & the Bomb Cyclone, Part Two

By Chris Gilmour
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January 6, 2018

8 Less Know Tips to Prepare for Winter Storms & Extreme Cold - Part 2Lessons From NatureA Winter "Bomb Cyclone"As I wrote this post, a HUGE winter "Bomb Cyclone" was walloping the east coast of North America called winter storm Grayson. Extreme cold blanketed the continent and it was snowing in...

How Past Hurricanes Can Prepare Us For Florence & The Future

By Chris Gilmour
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October 13, 2017

What Irma Can Teach Us About Preparing for Hurricane Florence & the Future. As Hurricane Florence barrels down on the Carolina Coast, I thought it was timely to update and rerelease this great interview I did during Hurricane Irma & Hurricane Harvey in 2017. In the days leading up to...

Part 2 – Learning from Hurricane Irma & Harvey – Preparing for Climate Change

By Chris Gilmour
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September 13, 2017

What can we learn from Natural Disasters such as Hurricane Irma & Harvey to be better prepared for Climate Change? Click here if you missed part 1 with Lessons 1 - 3 Lesson #4 - Don’t assume the government and emergency services will be there to help you - In...

6 Lessons from Hurricane Irma & Harvey in Preparing for Natural Disasters & Climate Change

By Chris Gilmour
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September 5, 2017

What Irma & Harvey CanTeach us to Prepare for Hurricane Florence & the Future. Want the key points? - Scroll to "What We Can Do Now.." near the bottom of the post. As I update this post, Hurricane Florence is heading towards the Carolina coast where over 1 million people have been ordered...