Getting Ready for Hanna

[Andy Carvin]

I know everyone was looking forward to catching their breath, but I thought I'd mention that Hannah is expected to start affecting Florida by Thursday, and remain at hurricane speeds all up the FL coast, past Georgia and into South Carolina, at which point it'll go due north thru Virginia and the Mid Atlantic.

I don't know how strong of a hurricane it'll be when it hits the US, but it's covering the entire SE coast potentially. So, the short of it is that we shouldn't call it a day just yet.

Though I don't plan to change the URLs, I think we should consider the Ning site and the wiki as info centers for both storms. Does that sound right to everyone? And since we have a bit more lead time before Hannah, anything else we want to ramp up in the interim?

[Deanna Zandt]

absolutely re: keeping these resources for the coming storms. i'm on board for Hannah, Ike, etc.

[laurie]

I'm very happy to continue revamping the animal/pets pages (which I'm still sifting through since I'm on a few deadlines and haven't had chunks of time today, but I figure will come in handy if they are unfortunately needed in the future.) Not sure how you want to set them up, though - many of the pets links are specific to the Gulf as they were lifted from the Katrina wiki.

I'll wait til a wiki to-do thread pops up and repost this I guess. :)

[B.K. DeLong]

I think we should come up with a better system with these scanners for The Interdictor Project. We have experience with the NOLA area (TX, LA, MS) but not East Coast.

Maybe crowdsource listening to the feeds and somehow tag with unique channel on Twitter like #hanna-s002 (Hanna, Scanner 002). Have to find the scanners first and it wouldn't hurt to build a location for recording and storing some of these files.

I think speaking with the VOIP WXNet guys would be a very sharp way to get Just-In-Time reporting of conditions and issues...then we add the scanners in as we head up the coast.

Thoughts?

[Nancy Babyak]

I'm up for working on the staging of the shelter pages & local government resources for states up the east coast... but would like to figure out a comment / link to the government resources pre storm in place... so that if hurricane Nana (or any other late in the season) comes back to the gulf than we don't have to start from scratch.

Maybe a section of 'latest occupany information look here' before the specific addresses are available? open to thoughts and happy to move / create pages when container is ready!

[crashsystems]

Check out this comment I made on another thread for my two cents on alternative wiki software. I don't know if it would be too late in the game to use this in preparation for Hannah, but it might be worth looking into.

Anyways, I live in Lake City, Fl. Depending on where Hannah hits, Lake City might be used for people evacuating other parts of Fl., as it is in the northern part of the state, right in between the two coasts. If that is the case, I'll make sure to fill in resources for people staying in Lake City.

[Jeff McCord]

Works for me! You're doing a fantastic job! Let me know where I can help.

[Andy Carvin]

meanwhile, a cosmetic question: should I change the site's name to the Hurricane Information Center or something to that effect?

[crashsystems]

Are you referring to the Wiki or the Ning group? If to the wiki, then perhaps change the name to what you suggested, and get another domain such as "hannahwiki.com" and point to the same location.

Andy Carvin said:

meanwhile, a cosmetic question: should I change the site's name to the Hurricane Information Center or something to that effect?

[Andy Carvin]

Makes sense. I'll talk to Netsol (who donated the hosting) to see if they can help.

[Laura Conaway]

I'd do Hurricane Information Center 2008 or somesuch. The year helps people see how current the information might be.

[Nancy Babyak]

It may be complicated... but getting all the names for the atlantic each season... and staging 2008 Hurricane Information center and 2008 Hurricane Wiki... and then creating a front page for each crisis, with pointers to 2008 main information and growing crisis specific details... if needed would be much easier?

Laura Conaway said:

I'd do Hurricane Information Center 2008 or somesuch. The year helps people see how current the information might be.

[Andy Carvin]

Hmm. not sure if Ning is flexible enough to do that. For wikis, yes, no problem, but Ning may have to be a generic hurricane site that adjusts its modules as needed. Don't think we could clone the site and carry over the membership each time - would have to check w/ ning.

Nancy Babyak said:

It may be complicated... but getting all the names for the atlantic each season... and staging 2008 Hurricane Information center and 2008 Hurricane Wiki... and then creating a front page for each crisis, with pointers to 2008 main information and growing crisis specific details... if needed would be much easier?

Laura Conaway said:

I'd do Hurricane Information Center 2008 or somesuch. The year helps people see how current the information might be.