When Disaster Strikes Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/category/when-disaster-strikes/ Nonprofit. Secure. Digital Archives. Thu, 17 Jun 2021 19:35:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.permanent.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Permanent-Icon-512-32x32.png When Disaster Strikes Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/category/when-disaster-strikes/ 32 32 When Disaster Strikes Part 3: Preparing Your Family Treasures for the Worst https://www.permanent.org/blog/preparing-your-family-treasures-for-the-worst/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/preparing-your-family-treasures-for-the-worst/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2021 04:06:43 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/when-disaster-strikes-part-3-preparing-your-family-treasures-for-the-worst/ In part 1 and part 2 of this miniseries, we’ve run through the emotional logistics needed in order to prepare our mindset for handling a disaster, it’s time for us to layout a plan for how to mitigate the loss of family treasures. This post in the When Disaster Strikes miniseries will offer a checklist of things to think about and steps to take for before, during, and after a disaster. The more you can do to prepare your family treasures for a disaster before it strikes, the better off you’ll be. However, we don’t always have the luxury of time or foresight. With this in mind, I’ve broken up the steps into three distinct ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/preparing-your-family-treasures-for-the-worst/feed/ 2 When Disaster Strikes Part 2: Navigating Grief and Data Loss https://www.permanent.org/blog/navigating-data-loss-and-grief/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/navigating-data-loss-and-grief/#respond Thu, 18 Feb 2021 03:41:58 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/when-disaster-strikes-part-2-navigating-grief-and-data-loss/ In Part 1 of the When Disaster Strikes miniseries, I opened with a personal account of what my family experienced during the recent West Coast fires. While (thankfully) everything turned out OK for my family, it did impart some lessons learned. In this post we’ll delve into the emotional preparation needed for when—not if—a disaster strikes and facing the loss of our family treasures as a consequence. Emotional Steps to Prepare for Disaster Before we can delve into preparation logistics there’s something we have to deal with first: ourselves. While the human mind can easily imagine disaster scenarios, it’s harder for us to channel those thoughts into actions. The first thing to do is sit ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/navigating-data-loss-and-grief/feed/ 0 When Disaster Strikes Part 1: The Importance of Preparation https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-importance-of-preparation/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-importance-of-preparation/#respond Wed, 17 Feb 2021 23:12:40 +0000 http://35.161.73.71/when-disaster-strikes-part-1-the-importance-of-preparation/ We’ve all seen it. The shocking images of debris in the background while an exhausted human with a thousand-yard stare gestures to where their house used to be. It’s easy to think it will never happen to us, and yet we know from looking at the data that climate change is only getting worse. Cataclysmic disasters as a result of severe weather events are becoming an all-too-common occurrence. And let’s not forget it’s not just natural disasters we have to contend with. Disasters can come in many other forms such as: war, economic collapse, terrorism, overtourism, neglect, and time. The 2020 West Coast Fires I live in the Pacific Northwest, a region known for its ...

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