What Can We Do? Four Practical Suggestions For How We Can All HELP After A Disaster

Yesterday morning, Hurricane Idalia made landfall as a strong Category 3 hurricane near Keaton Beach in Florida’s Big Bend, leaving considerable damage and devastation in its wake. That’s the bad news. But here’s the good news: Even since before this storm intensified, ALAN has been hearing from numerous people like you who are ready to […]

Hurricane Idalia: Situation Report

ALAN is fully mobilized to respond to Hurricane Idalia and we are interfacing with our non-profit, industry and government partners to bring trusted resources and information below. Once the storm has passed and the damages have been assessed, we anticipate our non-profit partners will be reaching out to request logistics support. As they do, we’ll […]

The (Not-So) Calm Before The Storm – Dorian Edition

Years ago, the swimming star Esther Williams had a question she was asked so often, she had a card printed with the answer, “Yes, I still swim.” Although ALAN isn’t quite that famous (or aquatic), we can relate.  Because each time a hurricane starts to form, we have one question that seems to pop up […]

Happy Brag Day

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s almost Flag Day here in the United States.  But until then, all of us at ALAN are busy celebrating another important holiday that we like to call Brag Day.  (And in case you’re wondering, yes, we did invent it.  How could you tell?)  It’s a day when we remember some of the many […]