Thursday, July 11, 2013

Day 4: Caitria and Morgan O’Neill: How to step up in the face of disaster

Day 4 - July 11, 2013

Watch the TED talk below.

If the video doesn't work: click here for the video


Answer these questions in the comment box below:

1. What are some issues Caitria and Morgan had to overcome in order to organize themselves and the town to help their community? 

2. How is their work helping other communities across the United States? 

3. Visit their website and list one way they could improve their work to better help communities impacted by natural disasters.

41 comments:

  1. Both Morgan and Caitria had to overcome damages done to their houses due to tornado disasters.How did they help themselves and other communities? They organized a plan where they would help rebuild and fix damages that were made to their families home and many others in their community across the United States also shelter people that were also effected in the mixed of the Tornado. An issue both Morgan and Caitria was the damage done to their houses and the courage,want, and need to put together an organization to help others be more prepared for the next disaster heading their way.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Tyanna R. Huff
    Both Caitria and Morgan had to overcome the fact that a tornado had completely destroyed their homes. They had to completely change their life plans due to this life changing experience. They had to plan out how to rebuild and reconstruct after the tornado. Since they weren’t quite used to tornadoes, being that Massachusetts aren’t really prone to them, they had to do a lot of research. Since Morgan had background educational experience she was able to build a recovery machine fast. Then they used their knowledge of mass planning and using social networks to contact people and organize a rebuilding program. It took a lot of dedication and they were able to become experts in the field of community power disaster recovery. One way they could better improve their website would be to create an app. If they were to create an app people would be able to get alerts rather than just having to log on. Instead they would be able to receive breaking news no matter what time. These alerts would be great for natural disaster warnings and would be able to supply people with tips and evacuation plans. Of course they would need the help of phone companies and possibly even the government but it would make their program a lot more accurate. Staying in touch with donators and a local bulletin for what they might need would also improve Caitria and Morgans website.

    ReplyDelete
  3. 1. Some issues that Caitria and Morgan had to over come with a disaster of a EF3 tornado had crashed into their home was that they started to answer question because the people needed to know .

    2. Their work is helping other communities across the United States by is by helping others with shelter and tools. They use technology to get into contact and letting people know what's needed. It is Also helpful for best timing. Having data .

    3. What Morgan and Caitria need to work on is being specific on what's going on and what's happening . Helping others for the next disaster , be ready . If we all work together to get ready for the next disaster and be confident on your work . We work together to get together .

    ReplyDelete
  4. Marisol Rodriguez

    Caitria and Morgan stumbled upon some issues while setting up their organization. they had to learn to answer questions quickly and have the right answers, they had to figure out how to get the word out that they were helping the community. they needed to get the right tools to help their community and many others. Caitria and Morgans work is helping other communities across the US by setting up software's and training residence's on how to use them, because they cant be everywhere. by doing this they are helping communities be ready for natural disasters and how to over come them. on their website they should have more information on like how to help your own community and how to start your own organization.

    ReplyDelete
  5. 1. Caitria and Morgan had to over come many obstacles in order to organize themselves to help their community. some of those obstacles that they stumbled across were being able to answer any type of questions that people asked them quickly, figuring out how to handle situations in the correct matter, advertising that they were trying to help out the community and also make right decisions. for example Caitria gave up collage to help our her community... that takes real commitment.
    2. Caitria and Morgans work was helping other communities across the US by flying out to different countries setting up software and training the residence so people could know how to use it and also so people can get back their homes.
    3. on their website they should allow people to communicate with them without having to sign up or go through many different blogs in order to contact them or even to see how they helped other communities. this should be a website that anyone can visit without having to sign up.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Jennifer Chen
    Caitria and Morgan's homes both got destroyed by a F3 tornado. Due to their problem they decided to help organize themselves and the community to overcome this natural disaster.
    Caitria and Morgans work helps out communities across the us by using technology and every social network they had to try and communicate with people, trying to figure out their needs and questions.
    I think that Caitria and Morgans website looks boring, they need something for it to be more eye catching. I also think that they should probably go around the states and help people prepare for a tornado if there ever was one. Through their experience they should have learned about what to do when a F3 or higher tornado happens, what places to go to, what places to avoid etc;

    ReplyDelete
  7. Nathaniel Boyce
    Some issue’s that Catiria and Morgan both had to overcome was, a tornado had destroyed their house, and they had to come up with different ways to make their organization known to people. Their work is helping other communities across the United States because they are helping fix/ rebuild other family house’s that has been destroyed. One way they could improve their work, is by encouraging others to help or pitch in when rebuilding something.

    ReplyDelete
  8. 1. some of the issues that Caitria and Morgan had to overcome were problems like not knowing exactly how to handle some situations and not being able to give people the right answers and how to spread the word that they needed help.
    2. they have traveled to other places to help people in need. people how are in situations like they were in and need the same type of help that they needed.
    3. they should have the name of specific organizations where people can go to donate their time to help. and there should be more information about the disasters.

    janel russell

    ReplyDelete
  9. 1. It honestly took their experience to want to change peoples life's. Caitria and Morgan both have to over come the devastating tornado that happened to destroy both of their homes.They also had to take alot of time to find out how to help others. They needed a plan .
    2. Their working is really helping the communities across the U.S. They taught residents to use web tools. They helped connect communities .They helped people to know that they can help themselves and others as well.
    3. To improve ? They can show more interest in it . The website is pretty good and informational so . They should try too make people feel like they want to be apart of it

    ReplyDelete
  10. Brittany garriques 1)catria and morgan had to over come a few problems for example after a bad storm there homes was gone and they basically decided while helping there selves they would also help the community by rebuilding there homes. 2)their work helped others because they traveled all over and brought tools and supply that people that just suffered a bad storm and lost there homes needed. 3)In my opinion one thing that could help there business is getting more sponsors and more promotes because they are are doing a great thing they just need some exposure. BRITTANY GARRIQUES

    ReplyDelete
  11. 1. What are some issues Caitria and Morgan had to overcome in order to organize themselves and the town to help their community?
    Some of the issues Caitria and Morgan had to face was that they witnessed a devastating Tornado destroy their house, and they had to come with different strategies to make their organization be seen by people.
    2. How is their work helping other communities across the United States?
    Their work is helping other communities across the United States by exploring other places and supporting people who went through the same stuff they did ,they help other people get the resources they deserve such as houses and other things
    3.One way they can improve their work to better help their communities impacted by natural disasters is by starting a foundation where people can help and give funds to the people who deserve a better place.

    ReplyDelete
  12. 1. Some issues that Caitria faced was losing her chance for a master’s degree from Moscow. They also had to face the damages done to their house and community, also the community wasn’t organized, no one truly knew where to begin. They had to handle everything themselves and make decisions the government should be making. Just the fact that a tornado hit their hometown is something they had to overcome.
    2. Their work is helping other communities across the United States because of the software they created. They are trying to get the tools out to as many communities as possible so that people will be prepared ahead of time. I can’t even imagine how relieved I would be if I knew my community had something like this, something to fall back on and to expect recovery as soon as possible after a disaster.
    3. One way they can improve their website is explain in more detail exactly what their infrastructure does. If they are more detailed about it, people will know exactly what it is that they would be buying from them.
    -Ramanpreet Kaur

    ReplyDelete
  13. Jasmine Singh
    Some issues Caitria and Morgan had to overcome in-order to organize themselves and the town to help their community were by overcoming the disaster left after tornado EF3 hit both their homes. They both had to find all the answers to their questions.
    Their work is helping communities around the United States in many ways. For example by creating facebook accounts and by building a recovering machine. They used other technology to help them as-well.
    One way they could improve their work to better help communities impacted by natural disasters is by adding more information on what they are trying to do and how these things can actually help other communities.

    ReplyDelete
  14. cynthia and morgan helped their town recover from the tornado.
    they used fema to assit them. they when about this by getting a communiy of people to ban together and recover. they say a local is what you need to recover because itll turn them into a expert. it turns locals into experts because after experience theyll have an easier time recovering.they get donations to help them and their community have an easier recovery. they can improve what their doing by showing more zones that are most likely to get wrecked. this is a perfect example that will help other communities

    ReplyDelete
  15. 1. Both Caitria and Morgan had to overcome the damages that a tornado did to their houses and community. They had to plan out how to fix and rebuild their community after the destruction of the tornado.

    2. Caitria and Morgan helped other communities across the U.S. by sending out tools to the communities to help them prepare for another natural disaster encounter.

    3. One thing Caitria and Morgan can do to improve their help is by giving out more information and add something that would want to make people actually be take part of their program

    ReplyDelete
  16. Tatiyanna Islar

    The problems that Caitria & Morgan came apon made them take risks in order to pick themselves up & spread awareness to help others who were also affected by the Tornado. The damages caused by the perilous storm that was overwhelming but nonetheless the two ladies made up their minds to help their community as well as other communities in the US overcome the natural disaster. They used the internet(Facebook) to communicate with the people to spread awareness on their own without government official opinionated permission they decided to take things into their own hands to help those who were in need of it. Their work has begun to help people across the US by prepairing & supporting those who've been affected by the storms.I think they could improve their website by including information for people who could volunteer.

    ReplyDelete
  17. Diresh Sukhram
    1) Caitria and Morgan had witnessed a EF3 tornado destroy their home and they had to overcome that problem.
    2) Their work is helping other people, families, etc to recover from tornado related disasters. They do this by making an software and teaching people how to use it so they would be prepared if another tornado happened.
    3) I think they can improve on is that they could provide more info about their software online so more people could learn to use it so more people will be aware.

    ReplyDelete
  18. Ryan Ricketts
    Caitria and Morgan problems that they have gone through was organizing every bit of information that they had, especial, a lot of information from around the state. They had to answer a lot of questions from a lot of people when their homes or other of their properties have been damaged. Each of them had to give up that something that is the most precious to them, like when Caitria had to give up her Master’s Degree in Moscow in order to help her community.
    Their work is helping by the internet. Their community is famous for their Wi-Fi and because of this; they can reach to other people and help them as well. They built tools from scratch so that after a major disaster has past, people would have fast help. They use technology to there every advantage and it’s pretty impressive.
    The One thing they could improve on is expansion. If they were to expand their inventory, then more people would know about these amazing features. Everywhere around the earth, people are always getting caught in a storm, earthquake, or other natural disasters, so if anyone was to need help they would know where to go.


    ReplyDelete
  19. some issues that Caitra and Morgan had to over come to help there community was overcome the disastrous tornado. They also had to learn how to answer angry victims questions fast and acurate and possible. They use modern day technology as resources to help people rebuild there lives. One way Morgan and Caitria can improve their work in communities after natural disasters is to connect with another major disaster relief form. By expanding there work it can help other communities faster with more supplies and shelters

    ReplyDelete
  20. Da'Meek Bristole

    Getting the town people to help are communities by forming a organize that can help family that lost there homes. Make a organize that the town can agree to understand what the peoples want to do when a natural disuters happen. Buying them candiles and food hiding underground heading to a brucker or just leaveing you home to stay same where safe

    ReplyDelete
  21. Caitria and Morgan had to overcome in order to organize themselves and there town to help their community by overcoming the disaster that happened to them. They had to experience the after math of the tornado EF3 after it came through there town and hit both there houses. They wanted to help the community when they went to the church and saw people giving clothes and food. They needed to find out how they could help the community from the tornado. They created Facebook page. They also built a recovering machine. They used other stuff as well to help them with the project. One way they could improve the communities is by adding information on what they are doing and and things and ways that they help the communication

    ReplyDelete
  22. 1)One issue or problem that Caitria and Morgan had to go through was finding a way to organize the town itself. They had to make a website and a hotline number. They couldn't decide what they needed or what they didn't.
    2)Their work is now helping people around the country because it shows that you just need to have to step up and organize things. If they show people that they can use technology to help, the community will recover much faster because so many people are tech- efficient.
    3) I think one way that they women can help to improve their website and get more people to help is by making their wensite more catchy and appealing.

    ReplyDelete
  23. Some issues were one being there while the disaster happened. They had to keep and organize all the information that they had.She denied her degree in Moscow, that's a huge risk to take.

    There help is helping people to recover and having people to volunteer.They help people get the resources they really need.

    To improve there site they need to have more numbers of agencies where they can help.Also have something attracting to make people want to sign up
    More instructions

    ReplyDelete
  24. Syteria Perminter

    Caitria and morgan weren't used to tornados.both of them didn't know how to be prepared for this disaster. the both did a lot to help others in need who was in a situation like theirs. 2. they both help others all over prepare for natural disasters. so they can be ready and not have to go through the same thing they went through. 3. they should make the organization more known so it can grow. and also give out more information on their website for ex more broadcasting

    ReplyDelete
  25. 1.One issue they had to overcome was the complete desolation of their homes from a tornado. They wanted to help people with the same problem but having a hard time reaching out.
    2. They had helped by helping communities by teaching people how to use the technology that is all around them.
    3. Thy should give out more info on what they're doing and just get out there and show America what they're doing so they could more support.
    Devon Danglade

    ReplyDelete
  26. Thomas Rajeh

    1- an issue caitria and morgan came across was they weren very organized. this was an issue because they weren't able to prioritize what was most important.

    2- the are helping people all over the united states of America by taking a stand. they are starting an organization that can change the way storms effect us forever.

    3- I feel if they had more people working on the sight constantly updating it and changing ho it looks from time to time to make it more appealing to the people it would work better also they need to advertise more.

    ReplyDelete
  27. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Calvin Munroe

      Caitria and Morgan are faced with restoring order in the places affected by tornados and also answer any questions

      Their software is what helps people and another thing is the way how they have things organized

      If they had someone that could update the website more and also make their organization look more interesting

      Delete
  28. Izaiah Shedrick
    1) Some issues they had to overcome were, they never experienced a tornado before, so they didn’t know how to deal with the aftermath of it, or even deal with it when was there. Another issue they faces was they were starting a brand new organization from the ground up, so they had to deal with getting connections, and finding out how to answer questions that people may have had to get their town back together.
    2) Their work is helping communities, because they’re different from other organizations, they’re not just offering food and water, they’re offering ways to pick up communities and get them right back on their feet, by rebuilding, get donations, and even using the media to get help.
    3) one way they could improve their work to better help communities is by, instead of pricing for a community powered toolkit, they could donate them, and give free classes on training and support. No one is going to have the money after a disaster to be able to afford the cost, and it’s not right how 1 family out of hundreds of others are only fortunate enough to get, and be taught how to use a community powered tool kit.

    ReplyDelete
  29. 1. Caitria and Morgan had to overcome issues in order to organize themselves and the town to help their community. The main issue they had to overcome was facing the tornado which destroyed their homes. They had to find a way to organize the town and reach out to other people that had or have experienced the same thing as them by offering them help.
    2. Their work is helping other communities across the United States through the use of technology (internet). Caitria and Morgan created a software which helped people learn ways that can help them prepare for any future disaster from a tornado.
    3. One way Caitria and Morgan can improve their website is by elaborating more about tornados to expand the knowledge of those who visit their website and by going into further detail about their foundation.
    - Isma Chaudhary

    ReplyDelete
  30. 1 . one problem they faced was losing their home . then trying to reconstruct their home & their community.
    2.they are helping others through social networks & technology. also by giving them the supplies they needed
    3. their site overrall is very helpful & informational, but maybe if they made it more appealing to people .also they should broadcast it more. so they could grow.

    ReplyDelete
  31. the issues Caitria and Morgan had to overcome was facing that fact that there homes were destroyed by the tornado. over coming this issue was very important. the way they helped other communities was by traveling to different places helping out people who lost there homes, organizing shelters and notifying people on tornado's. and caitria and morgan need to be more specific with names when it comes to the different organizations people could help donate to.

    ReplyDelete
  32. 1. One problem Caitria and Morgan faced was losing their own home in the tornado. Fortunately, they were able to rise above that and attempt to reconstruct the community. They were asking and looking for help and it wasn't so easy in the beginning.
    2. Both of them keeps millions of people updated with the latest storms coming up. By doing this, they are letting them know on the fly, also giving them supplies that are well needed.
    3. One way they can improve their work is by getting the word out there about the website. The more people that know about it, the better for America and the more lives that are saved.

    ReplyDelete
  33. The issues that Caitria and Morgan faced were having their house completely destroyed by the tornado and having to recover from that. Also rebuilding their home. Something that they had to over come was learning to build new organizations from scratch and being quick and specific with information people needed. Their helping people through different things like face book. The girls are showing people that any one can do this you don't always have to rely on someone else, anyone can do anything. One thing they can do to improve is make it a little bit more eye catching when you go on it and be more specific with exactly what they do and who they are.
    Racquel Sterling

    ReplyDelete
  34. 1. Some issues that Caitria and Morgan had to face and overcome was the damages done to their homes by a EF3 tornado.
    2. Caitria and Morgans work was helping other communities across the US because they were using technology and traveling to different countries setting up software and training people so they could know how to use the software.
    3. One way the can improve their work is by allowing others to communicate with them easier. They should also have a name for their organization that will stand out.
    ADRIANNA ATHALIAH STARSHAY WILSON

    ReplyDelete
  35. 1) In order to organize themselves and the town to help their community, Caitria and Morgan had to overcome some issues such as dealing with the loss of their homes from a tornado, and facing the damages done to their homes as well as their community. Caiteria also lost her chance at gaining her master's degree from Moscow.

    2) Caiteria and Morgan created a software which helps other communities across the United States. This software helps prepare people for any future damages from a tornado and they are also offering tools to help people rebuild their homes.

    3) One way Morgan and Caitria can improve their website is by making it more appealing to the visitors, adding additional information on tornados and by having a more detailed explanation for their foundation.

    ReplyDelete
  36. Caitria and Morgan had to overcome losing their homes, getting their information out and getting the information out very fast while still being efficient in order to organize themselves and the town to help their community.
    other communities are seeing their work and they want to do the same thing with their communities. Their organizer will help others prepare for a natural disaster now or in the future. One way to improve their website is to get more known in other countries a little bit more in this one to because until today I would have never known they existed

    ReplyDelete
  37. Nazria Ramjohn
    I. One issue that Caitria and Morgan had to overcome in order to organize themselves and the town to help their community overcome was the people that have homes and are destroyed or need help from the tornado.They want to let people know that they are can help people and they want others to join.
    II. Their work is helping other communities across the United States because they have created something for any damages that could occur with a great system. They help by having people in need getting the help they need for reconstruction.
    III. One way they could improve their work to better help communities impacted by natural disasters is to make it know not only online but on the News and Magazines so people could read about natural disasters world wide and get more of a idea and information.

    ReplyDelete