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Nordics

Norway Is Practising for a Crisis Without Mobile Networks. Is Your Household?

This November, every municipality in Norway is running a crisis and war exercise, and many are practising how to keep services going without mobile...

What to do: Find your municipality's information point and put batteries in your radio.

Europe

Europe's Protest Wave: Keeping Daily Life Running When the City Changes Week to Week

Since mid-September, more than 1,700 large protests have taken place in 31 European countries. Most are peaceful, but blockades, strikes and clashe...

What to do: Check the week's announced strikes on Sunday and agree who collects the children.

Spain

Storm Charles and the La Palma Blackout: Two Weeks of Warnings in Spain and Portugal

A red alert in Extremadura, 355 mm of rain in Madeira, hundreds of cancelled flights, and an island left in the dark. What the November storms in I...

What to do: Under a red warning, do not travel and never cross moving water. Charge your power banks now.

Europe

Grounded: What the US Air Traffic Shutdown and Europe's Bomb Hoaxes Teach Travellers

On 13 November, all US airspace closed for about four hours and nearly 10,000 flights were cancelled. In Europe, about 20 bomb hoaxes diverted flig...

What to do: Pack a power bank, two days of medicines and offline booking details in your hand luggage.

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Nordic authorities ask households to manage on their own for about a week. Water, heat, food, light, medicine and a radio for staying put.

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European Union

112

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Norway

112 · 113 · 110

Police · ambulance · fire. DSB

Spain

112

Protección Civil

United Kingdom

999 · 112

Be Ready, GOV.UK

United States

911

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