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When flash floods hit a Nepal school, alert teachers evacuated every classroom just minutes before water crashed through the walls. All the children survived, even as 69 schools across the region were destroyed.
Twenty-one years after being trapped in a New Orleans hotel during Hurricane Katrina, tech journalist Kurt Knutsson reveals how the disaster taught him emergency prep skills that anyone can use. His story shows how one terrifying experience transformed into life-saving wisdom.
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When a massive earthquake struck Indonesia, Maria Florida Nogo Kelen was giving birth two months early in a shaking hospital without power. Both mother and baby survived against the odds, thanks to doctors who refused to leave their side.