After reading "During Helene, I Just Wanted a Plain Text Website" on Sparkbox (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494734) , I built safe-now.live – a text-first emergency info site for USA and Canada. No JavaScript, no images, under 10KB. Pulls live FEMA disasters, NWS alerts, weather, and local resources. This is my first live website ever so looking for critical feedback on the website. Please feel free to look around.
A similar kind of noise note could probably be made of the "Recent Earthquakes" section. E.g. if you select Indianapolis, IN it includes all the way down to a M2.6 which occurred in NW Tennessee 30 days ago.
112 is also a national emergency number.
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!
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 )
They also don't require a phone to be activated in most countries. I believe there are some exceptions in EU countries, but in the US it just needs to have a working antenna and be in range of a tower.
Cloudflare with Cache-Control headers is even simpler if you're okay with adding Cloudflare as a dependency.
From an ASN lookup, it appears you're hosting on Oracle Cloud, so Cloudflare would also give you free data egress: https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/why-cdn-client...
Their Always-On feature would also help if Oracle has an outage.
I like the general idea, very lightweight and more likely to remain accessible when an emergency is overloading the mobile networks.
How are these "scams & fraud"?
> Make sure your health insurance plan provides coverage overseas. Most care providers overseas only accept credit card payments. See our webpage for more information on insurance overseas. Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more information on the type of insurance you should consider before you travel overseas.
> Gas stations in rural areas can be far apart. Some stations are unattended and require a credit card with a chip to purchase fuel.
Same with https://travelsafetydata.com/country/NO
It lists child protection laws as "scams & fraud"
Canada: https://dd.weather.gc.ca/alerts/cap/{province}/atom.xml