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Since NET's founding in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqu132vTl5Y 1994], the threat of a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake drove urgency behind disaster preparedness and response programming. That threat remains. But a new fighter has entered the ring: extreme weather events caused by climate change. Extreme weather, such as heat domes and snow storms, have (and will continue to) take lives and result directly in more NET volunteers deployed for more hours. | Since NET's founding in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqu132vTl5Y 1994], the threat of a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake drove urgency behind disaster preparedness and response programming. That threat remains. But a new fighter has entered the ring: extreme weather events caused by climate change. Extreme weather, such as heat domes and snow storms, have (and will continue to) take lives and result directly in more NET volunteers deployed for more hours. | ||
From January 2022 to October 2023, NETs logged approximately 3,917 deployment hours. That includes planned deployments, such as serving as parade guides and first aid response at the Rose Festival or fire fuel mitigation.<span style="background:#FFFF00; color:#FFFF00">.</span><span style="background:#FFFF00">'''61% of those deployment hours were logged in response to events caused by extreme weather.'''</span><span style="background:#FFFF00; color:#FFFF00">.</span> When I started at PBEM in 2012, that percentage was closer to 10%. And the percent attributable to extreme weather events is likely only to climb. | |||
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