Safety Shelter?
2023 US Tornadoes
CDP. (2023).
"The 2023 tornado season has been busy, with at least 1,450 preliminary reports of tornadoes and 1,402 tornadoes already confirmed in 2023. This total does not include all tornadoes, as some storms are still being investigated.
There were 166 tornadoes in January, 60 in February, 266 in March, 178 in April, 179 in May, 241 in June, 121 in July, 127 in August, 10 in September, 25 in October and 16 in November. The National Weather Service confirmed 13 tornadoes touched down after nightfall on Dec. 9 and impacted multiple counties in Middle Tennessee. Six fatalities have been confirmed in Tennessee: three in Clarksville and three in the Madison area of Nashville. The Clarksville tornado has been classified as an EF-3 with winds of 150 mph."
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(CDP, 2023)
https://disasterphilanthropy.org/disasters/2023-us-tornadoes/
Apocalypse Bunker?
Cyber
Apocalypse 2023:
Is The World Heading For A ‘Catastrophic’ Event?
Marr, Bernard. (2023).
"By 2025, it’s expected that cybercrime will cost the world economy around $10.5 trillion annually, increasing from $3 trillion in 2015 according to Cybersecurity Ventures. To put that in context, if it were a country, then cybercrime would have the third largest GDP behind the US and China. Key drivers of this growth are the ongoing digitization of society, behavioral changes due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, political instability such as the war in Ukraine, and the global economic downturn.
According to the WEF report, of particular concern is that the nature of cybercrime is becoming increasingly unpredictable. This is due to technology becoming more complex – in particular, breakthrough technologies such as artificial intelligence. This means that we are increasingly at risk of what has been termed a “catastrophic” cyberattack – one that will have severe and ongoing ramifications for society at large."
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(Bernard Marr, 2023)
Life Preservation
2023 'Doomsday Clock': This is how close we are to the apocalypse, scientists say
Teddy Grant and Bill Hutchinson
January 24, 2023, 10:52 AM
"Scientists revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been moved up to 90 seconds before midnight -- the closest humanity has ever been to armageddon.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the metaphorical clock up 10 seconds from where it had stayed for the past two years, citing the escalation in Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022.
"Russia's thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict by accident, intention or calculation is a terrible risk," said Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. "The possibilities that the conflict can spin out of anyone's control remains high."
Bronson noted that U.N. Secretary General António Guterres warned in August that the "world has entered a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War."
"The war's effects also undermine global efforts to combat climate change as countries dependent on Russian oil and gas have expanded investment in natural gas," Bronson said."
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(Teddy Grant and Bill Hutchinson
January 24, 2023, 10:52 AM)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/2023-doomsday-clock-announcement-expect/story?id=96495463
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