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sl8

(16,245 posts)
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 05:31 AM Aug 2024

Drones warn New Yorkers about storm dangers

https://www.voanews.com/a/drones-warn-new-yorkers-about-storm-dangers/7732976.html

Drones warn New Yorkers about storm dangers

August 07, 2024 2:45 AM
By Associated Press

With a buzzing sound in the background, a drone equipped with a loudspeaker flies over homes warning people who live in basement or ground-floor apartments about impending heavy rains.

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About five teams with multiple drones each were deployed to specific neighborhoods prone to flooding. Zach Iscol, the city's emergency management commissioner, said the messages were being relayed in multiple languages. They were expected to continue until the weather impacted the drone flights.

Flash floods have been deadly for New Yorkers living in basement apartments, which can quickly fill up in a deluge. Eleven people drowned in such homes in 2011 amid rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

The drones are in addition to other forms of emergency messaging, including social media, text alerts and a system that reaches more than 2,000 community-based organizations throughout the city that serve senior citizens, people with disabilities and other groups.

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Drones warn New Yorkers about storm dangers (Original Post) sl8 Aug 2024 OP
I think someone posted here about a doctor, (s) in Rwanda, (I believe) that shoot off medicine Maraya1969 Aug 2024 #1
Here's one: sl8 Aug 2024 #2
Thank you for those links. I love that they are working. Maraya1969 Aug 2024 #3

Maraya1969

(22,997 posts)
1. I think someone posted here about a doctor, (s) in Rwanda, (I believe) that shoot off medicine
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 07:04 AM
Aug 2024

in drones that bring needed medicine to the people who live far off and have no access to these things. The drones land at the perfect tiny spot far away so these people can get help.

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