Nancy Argyle 🇨🇦

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Nancy Argyle 🇨🇦

@Plan_Prep_Live

Former senior government disaster communicator & news reporter. Pilot, writer and shameless science geek. Tweets disaster info, new discoveries and cool tech.

Vancouver Island, BC 가입일 Haziran 2013

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Nancy Argyle 🇨🇦@Plan_Prep_Live·24 Şub

In 1992, we took a fleet of DC-6 aircraft and sprayed much of Vancouver with an organic pesticide...from a height of 300 ft. I was director of communications for the project. Here’s why transparency and credibility is critical in any crisis including #coronavirus.

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Visegrád 24@visegrad24·14h

"Please, Lord" Venezuelans trapped under tons of concrete walls pray for rescue while afraid to move due to the risk of collapse Horrifying videos are being uploaded online by people trapped under the rubble. Meanwhile, the Venezuelan dictatorship barely does anything to help

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Kyle Brittain@BadWeatherKyle·7h

FLOOD WARNING along the Elbow River west of Calgary. For the first time ever, the Springbank Off-Stream Reservoir is being filled. #yyc #abstorm Check it out 👇

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Jayme Doll@DollJayme·1d

Town of Canmore under Flood Watch, some residents told to prepare for possible evacuation. @GlobalCalgary

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Kyle Brittain@BadWeatherKyle·1d

The Elbow River in Kananaskis Country is a raging torrent of chocolate milk #abstorm

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¡DIFUNDELO YA!@DIFUNDELOYA·1d

URGENTE 🇻🇪 | ¡ÚLTIMA HORA! 🚨| Crisis extrema en La Guaira: la acumulación de cadáveres ha sobrepasado la capacidad de las instalaciones. El puerto de la entidad está siendo habilitado como morgue improvisada ante la emergencia.

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Nancy Argyle 🇨🇦@Plan_Prep_Live·1d

@GenerallyLeMay By knowing the signs. Heat illness starts slow without people understanding they need help. Everyone needs AC but, if you don’t have it, you need to know who and when to call. It took a long time for ambulances to arrive due to high call volume. People waited too long.

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Uncle Curtis 🇺🇸@GenerallyLeMay·1d

@Plan_Prep_Live @willow032013 You have rampant air conditioning but people were not prepared. How does that work exactly? What would have made them more prepared?

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Nancy Argyle 🇨🇦@Plan_Prep_Live·2d

If you are experiencing extreme heat, soak your sheets in cold or ice water and cover your naked body with them. Once the sheets feel a bit dry, do it again. Our doctors used this method in Vancouver hospitals to save lives when a heat dome killed 600+. Use for pets too. #climate

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Nancy Argyle 🇨🇦@Plan_Prep_Live·1d

@BlueEightySix 😆 I already have three AC units. You clearly are not capable of understanding the context of the original post. You should spend less time posting and more time reading. Don’t worry. You’ll get it one day.

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Smells Like Teen Statism@BlueEightySix·1d

@Plan_Prep_Live You take yourself way too seriously. Window air conditioning costs a couple hundred bucks for one room in a house. Requires only the same common sense as having wood for a fireplace in the winter.

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Smells Like Teen Statism@BlueEightySix·1d

Alternatively, you could just choose to stop pretending you live in a third world failed state

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Infos Françaises@InfosFrancaises·1d

🌡️ Canicule : un jeune homme de 25 ans est mort d'hyperthermie après avoir été victime d'un malaise dans un tramway près de Strasbourg (ICI Alsace).

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Jeff Berardelli@WeatherProf·1d

Heads up‼️ Hottest Ever?! It’s genuinely possible. No exaggeration to say that the severity of the #heatwave that the Eastern US is about to experience will be cruel and grueling for days! 100s of record highs, some neck and neck with all-time records, in the East Coast cities! And peak heat index numbers near 115. Lasting right into the weekend.

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@scottdotnetdev @RazLikesRocks 😆 I have three AC units. A lot of people have AC as do most buildings, hospitals, offices, stores. Some of those that didn’t have AC died in our heat dome. 600+ people. Other methods needed while waiting for ambulances. Everyone needs AC.

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Scott | Free Speech Dev 🇺🇲@scottdotnetdev·1d

@RazLikesRocks @Plan_Prep_Live Let Nancy know that. She thinks wet bedsheets are the answer to summer heat for some reason.

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Nancy Argyle 🇨🇦@Plan_Prep_Live·1d

@seltzer42 Yes, I turn on my three air conditioners too. Others are not so fortunate. The advice is provided for them, not you.

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Juan V Gomez@seltzer42·1d

@Plan_Prep_Live I just turn my AC on

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@CraigGr27002535 It’s extreme, I agree. But the conditions warranted it. It provides rapid intervention to reduce body temperature before heading to the vet. People came home to dead and dying pets after a day at their air conditioned offices during our heat dome.

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Craig Graham@CraigGr27002535·1d

@Plan_Prep_Live “Put pets in fridge” has to be the most reckless advice I have ever seen on X.

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Nancy Argyle 🇨🇦@Plan_Prep_Live·1d

@simeyowen I’m so sorry to hear that, Leslie. AC would definitely have prevented his death. My paramedic son nearly became very ill as well. It can creep up without most being aware. He was surprised at how easily you can fall victim.

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Leslie E Owen ✡@simeyowen·1d

@Plan_Prep_Live My ex-husband was one of the 600 people killed in the heat dome. He lived in an older apartment building in Burnaby, no a/c, by the time he got to the hospital he was already in a coma.

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AFP News Agency@AFP·1d

#BREAKING More than 1,300 excess deaths recorded in Europe heatwave: WHO

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Nancy Argyle 🇨🇦@Plan_Prep_Live·1d

@willow032013 I live in a first world country where there is rampant air conditioning everywhere. We still lost 600+ people who were not prepared for a heat dome.

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Adrienne@willow032013·1d

@Plan_Prep_Live Or just crank up the AC and stop living like you're in a third-world country.

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Nancy Argyle 🇨🇦@Plan_Prep_Live·1d

@TamTamsWorld Set a timer. It should only be done as a rapid intervention for a short time before transporting to vet.

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Nomathamsanqa@TamTamsWorld·1d

Imagine you put your pet in the fridge but you suffer from time blindness

Nancy Argyle 🇨🇦@Plan_Prep_Live

Our hospitals are air conditioned. This method was used on people who were brought in by ambulance to rapidly stop hyperthermia. If using on most pets, focus your cooling efforts on the belly. Some put pets in fridges for a short time to stop hyperthermia before taking to vet.

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Nancy Argyle 🇨🇦@Plan_Prep_Live·1d

@Tinybutfierce1 Canada doesn’t normally get heat domes but we have air conditioning in hospitals, shopping centres, office buildings and many homes. Many people never thought they would need one. Putting a pet into a fridge is for rapid intervention only for a short time before taking to vet.

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Weebutmighty@Tinybutfierce1·1d

Canada. Use iced sheets to deal with the heat....forget ever sleeping in said sheets......and while you're at it ...MAID your dog in the fridge. It's only merciful after all....

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@qw_jessie It is critical that electricity and water stays on! It measured 45 degrees Celsius in my hallway despite two air conditioners and fans. Glad you and the cats made it.

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QW Jessie@qw_jessie·1d

This is interesting, I wouldn’t have thought about that! The heat dome SUCKED. Extreme heat that’s trapped is no joke. Even with our portable AC blasting, our cats got nauseous from heat, we were still sweating. Luckily our apartment kept the water very cold…

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Nancy Argyle 🇨🇦@Plan_Prep_Live·1d

@SarahWW True. In high humidity, frozen water bottles wrapped in a towel under arm pits would be better.

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