Over the July 3 and 4 weekend, torrential downpours triggered catastrophic flooding across Central Texas as the Colorado and Guadalupe rivers rapidly rose and overflowed their banks. In just three hours, the Guadalupe surged more than 20 feet, from 10 cubic feet per second to over 120,000, causing widespread devastation across Austin, San Antonio, and […]
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Since January 6th, a series of devastating wildfires fueled by record-breaking Santa Ana winds have swept through Los Angeles County, destroying thousands of homes and businesses, killing at least two dozen people, and displacing hundreds of thousands more. The two largest fires—Palisades and Eaton—have burned over 37,000 acres, destroyed and damaged more than 11,000 structures,
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In late 2024, Hurricanes Helene and Milton left a lasting impact across the southeastern United States, causing widespread destruction and hardship for countless communities. Hurricane HeleneMaking landfall as a powerful Category 4 storm, Hurricane Helene brought life-threatening flooding and widespread devastation to Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Families and communities faced immense
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We often speak of “natural disasters” as the floods, winds, fires and earthquakes that can wreak such great damage on our communities, seemingly at random. But in truth, disasters are never truly natural and they are less random than we realize. Experts use the following as shorthand to demonstrate this notion that nearly all disasters
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February 24th marked two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion into Ukraine, the largest attack on a European country since World War II. Those past 24 months have been marked by tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties, millions fleeing the country, and millions more internally displaced within its borders. The refugee crisis is the worst
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Like most of the world’s major NGOs, Operation USA has watched as conditions for 2.3 million Palestinians cooped up in Gaza have gotten progressively worse. In most other manmade or natural disasters a tragic event happens and we and our NGO colleagues bring our years of expertise to bear on helping victims in the near term and
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OpUSA has deployed emergency grants and continues to assess opportunities to help Hawaii.
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As conflict continues, OpUSA continues to deliver emergency support to Ukraine.
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