I like this! I noticed that the weather for some Bay Area counties seem to be getting zeroed out for temperature.

https://safe-now.live/c/us/ca/county/san-mateo/ https://safe-now.live/c/us/ca/county/santa-cruz/

(both say: Weather Now 32°F / 0°C - Sunny )

I've been working on a similar idea for travelers, https://travelsafetydata.com/

It's pulling the travel advisories from US/CA/UK/IE/AU/NZ and aggregating the results/information to help you understand the risks of different countries. It also pulls from other sources for basic country info/risks (eg. women, lgbtq).

Yours is way lighter weight and focused, very cool!

When you drill down to active emergencies for a local area there's a ton of stuff there but it's all old. Why display it if the purpose of the site is current emergency info?

Such a page has both dynamic and static information in it. If you don't have Internet access, that static info can still be helpful. A QR code can hold 2.9 MB of data. I'm imagining a QR code that contains the static information, and a small script that checks for connection and then redirects to the full page that also has the dynamic info. A QR code on an eink screen that gets remotely updated over LoRA could even include the dynamic info.

I appreciate the idea, but as others have mentioned it seems like for something like this to be useful it really needs to be well thought out and tolerant to extreme spikes in traffic.

I might be wrong here but it looked like the responses from the server are chunked, which I _think_ precludes the use of a highly optimized cache response e.g. from a CDN. Assuming that's true (very open to correction of course!) I wonder why this would be.

This is an interesting idea, but the very first page I looked at was wrong (current weather in Alameda county shows as 72* - it's almost 30* below that here, and the daily high in the warmest areas is projected to be 65).

Next I looked at San Francisco, and oddly it listed a bunch of minor earthquakes in San Ramon - none of which are listed in Alameda county, which is actually next to (and parts of which actually felt) those tremors.

I love this kind of thing - I'm always building lists and reference things, but IME people generally don't gravitate towards things like this.

That said, I really want a backcountry version of this. I live in Tahoe and our relationship to incoming storms (lightning) is pretty different than those in the Rockies. Plus bears and other predators (how to behave). Etc.

I once wanted to do something similar w/r/t tap water and drinkability.

Fun/neat.

What would be a good book to have in the house that could help me in as many emergencies as possible, but still be portable enough to actually bring when fleeing the house or something?

Alternatively, what would be a good bigger book for the same goal and/or be more about long term survival in case of being trapped in the house long?

Local news needs timestamps… I see stale last-week weather news. Had to click and see date from last week in the article.

Great but icons fail to render on Mosaic, Netscape and other web 1.0 browsers. Apart from that: great