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Practical Action involved three of these communities in mapping flood risk and helped set up community flooding brigades which alert people via word of mouth. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication

Simplified: Practical Action helped set up community flooding brigades

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8 months ago
Bangladesh also has a large number of volunteers – half of them women – who patrol streets with megaphones to disseminate the warnings and go door-to-door to help and encourage people to evacuate. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication

Simplified: Bangladesh has many volunteers who disseminate warnings and encourage evacuation

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8 months ago
Its approach includes text messages, radio announcements and thousands of formal shelters which double up as schools and community centres. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication

Simplified: Bangladesh's approach includes text messages radio announcements and shelters

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8 months ago
Speech-based warnings (face-to-face, via radio, TV or telephone) were more effective than sirens, text alerts, websites and social media. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication

Simplified: Speech-based warnings were more effective than sirens text alerts websites and social media

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8 months ago
A 2021 review of flood warnings found that word of mouth warnings, delivered for example via door knocking, transmitted a greater sense of urgency and authority and made recipients more likely to foll... 0.900

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Simplified: Word of mouth warnings transmitted a greater sense of urgency and authority

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8 months ago
We should depend on the community more, because not only are we getting the warnings out, but there's also increased trust. 0.900

👤 Trujillo-Falcón 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication

Simplified: Depend on the community more for warnings because of increased trust

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8 months ago
They can be language brokers. 0.900

👤 Trujillo-Falcón 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication

Simplified: Community members can be language brokers

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8 months ago
Community members and word of mouth can help disseminate crucial information in multiple languages. 0.900

👤 Trujillo-Falcón 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication

Simplified: Community members and word of mouth can help disseminate crucial information in multiple languages

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8 months ago
"Aviso", the translation of "advisory", communicated more urgency than both the "watch" and "warning" translations. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication , Research

Simplified: "Aviso" communicated more urgency than "watch" and "warning" translations

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8 months ago
They consistently rated "aviso", the translation of "warning" used by US organisations responsible for sending out alerts, as less urgent than many other alternatives. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication , Research

Simplified: US Spanish speakers rated "aviso" as less urgent than other alternatives

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8 months ago
US Spanish speakers were asked to indicate the urgency they felt when shown different Spanish words used in translations of weather "watch", "warning" and "advisory" alerts. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication , Research

Simplified: US Spanish speakers indicated urgency when shown different Spanish words for weather alerts

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8 months ago
The urgency of weather warnings often gets lost in translation. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication

Simplified: The urgency of weather warnings often gets lost in translation

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8 months ago
Multilingual flood warnings can "be the difference between life and death" in a state like Texas. 0.900

👤 Trujillo-Falcón 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication

Simplified: Multilingual flood warnings can be the difference between life and death in Texas

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8 months ago
Multilingual warnings are also crucial in many parts of the US. 0.900

👤 Trujillo-Falcón 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication

Simplified: Multilingual warnings are crucial in many parts of the US

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8 months ago
The warning "Keep your car high and dry" does seem to appeal to young men. 0.900

👤 Stephens 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication

Simplified: The warning "Keep your car high and dry" appeals to young men

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8 months ago
When we have a message [like turn around don't drown] that people don't feel applies to them, they're not going to take it seriously. 0.900

👤 Stephens 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication , Psychology

Simplified: People will not take a message seriously if they do not feel it applies to them

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8 months ago
Some young men responded to this message by laughing and saying: "I'm not going to die, I've got a big truck." 0.950

👤 Stephens 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication , Psychology

Simplified: Some young men responded to "Turn around don't drown" by laughing and saying "I'm not going to die I've got a big truck"

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8 months ago
The NWS warning phrase, "Turn around don't drown" doesn't tend to resonate with young men. 0.900

👤 Stephens 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication

Simplified: NWS warning phrase "Turn around don't drown" does not resonate with young men

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8 months ago
The content of the message also needs to be tailored to groups' specific risk tolerance. 0.900

👤 Saccoccia 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication

Simplified: Message content needs tailoring to groups' specific risk tolerance

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8 months ago
Women, disabled, elderly, different levels of literacy, and those without phone service or radio communication will need different communication methods. 0.900

👤 Liz Saccoccia 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication , Accessibility

Simplified: Women disabled elderly different levels of literacy and those without phone service or radio communication will need different communication methods

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8 months ago