You ve seen it on TV or in the movies: zombies walking down empty streets looking for a human to snack on. Ever wonder what you would need to do to survive a zombie apocalypse? Well, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has you covered.
OK, so no, the CDC doesn t
actually think that there will be a zombie apocalypse. But as TV shows like
The Walking Dead have risen in popularity in recent years, and as more people began wondering what they should do if zombies were to start roaming the streets, the CDC decided to create a Zombie Preparedness page where they could go for answers. As it turns out what first began as a tongue-in-cheek campaign to engage new audiences with preparedness messages has proven to be a very effective platform, according to the CDC. We continue to reach and engage a wide variety of audiences on all hazards preparedness via zombie preparedness.
During a press conference on Thursday, Austin Water Director Greg Meszaros said the state capital s water supply lost 325 million gallons of water due to burst pipes. We know that there are tens of thousands of leaks, he said. As the fire department indicated they have responded to thousands upon thousands of burst pipes. That is an incredible amount of water. Nothing I ve ever seen before. What-You-Can-and-Can t-Do-During-A-Boil-Water-Advisory-GettyImages-152537775 Credit: Getty Images
Lights and heat came back on Friday morning, but some 187,000 customers remain without power and millions still have no water at all or are being told to boil their water to make it safe to drink, reported
The US has been experiencing extreme weather lately, and some of these storms have brought record-breaking amounts of snow to big swaths of the country. Of course the snow has made it onto social media, including pictures of people showing off their snow cream and snow cocktails creations.
You know not to use the
yellow snow in your snowy desserts. But should you even be eating any snow is it actually safe? We asked a few experts about it. What is snow, exactly?
First, some background on snow: The pretty white stuff is just precipitation in the form of ice crystals. As the National Snow and Ice Data Center puts it, once an ice crystal has formed, it absorbs and freezes additional water vapor from the surrounding air, growing into a snow crystal or snow pellet, which then falls to Earth.