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AlertHouston is the City of Houston’s official source for information about emergency events, current conditions, expected impacts, important City services, and actions that residents can take to keep themselves safe. [1] Registration is free and alerts are available through text message, voice call, or email.
What We Know: The entire Houston area is at risk of seeing severe weather today. The National Weather Service put the area at a "slight risk" on its severe weather outlook. That's a 2 out of 5 on ...
A dozen Houston area hospitals are in a state of “internal disaster” and more than 40 dialysis clinics are struggling with outages, Texas Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd said in a news ...
In Harris County, where Houston is, about 782,000 homes and businesses were without power at about 1 a.m. CT, according to poweroutage.us. At one point Thursday night, about 880,000 had been in ...
In a working mine, the radon level can be controlled by ventilation, sealing off old workings and controlling the water in the mine. The level in a mine can go up when a mine is abandoned; it can reach a level which can cause the skin to become red (a mild radiation burn). The radon levels in some of the mines can reach 400 to 700 kBq m −3. [17]
A typical radon test kit Fluctuation of ambient air radon concentration over one week, measured in a laboratory. The first step in mitigation is testing. No level of radiation is considered completely safe, but as it cannot be eliminated, governments around the world have set various action levels to provide guidance on when radon concentrations should be reduced.
Radon, a byproduct of naturally decaying uranium, is estimated to cause thousands of deaths each year nationwide. Here's how to protect yourself.
Since radon concentrations vary substantially from day to day, single grab-type measurements are generally not very useful, except as a means of identifying a potential problem area, and indicating a need for more sophisticated testing. [107] The EPA recommends that an initial short-term test be performed in a closed building.