Jáleesa

Comm and PR Specialist | I drink coffee, read books, & make cups | ♈♌♌

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

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[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

If you go to Amazon and type in Jaleesa Diggins, you'll see that I am editor of not one but TWO published books.

Editing books was not on my bingo card for the year, but here we are. 🥳🥳

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

I have read 20 of 20 books for the 2024 Reading Challenge! What should I read next? https://t.co/LHgDy6foUI

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

National Book Lovers Day 🥰🥳

I've read a total of 15 books this year. The 15th being A Court Of Mist & Fury that I just finished today

#HappyReading #BlackGirlsRead

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

I'm so glad Erika chose life. The whole end of the book had me scared af...

I give it a 4 out of 5. I wanted more of Kwanza. I wanted more about her end story. But we all know EJD never disappoints frfr. #HappyReading

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

Y'all be listening to audiobooks a 2x the speed.
Me: SLOOOOOOWWWWW IT DOWN

I like my audiobooks at 1x MAYBE 1.5x but that 2x tooooo much for me. 🤣

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

Tell us you don't have a PR team without saying you don't have a PR team

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

@RentEmSp00ns Literally, no one knew my real name 🤣 people thought my mama named me Jay.

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

For instance, what I do now. I had no idea it existed until I got the job, and honestly, it was by chance. The grace of God. The Universe shinning it's light on me.

I'm thankful I'm in this career, but I can only imagine if I had of been exposed to this field 10 years ago.

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

I honestly think going straight to college after high school is a terrible idea. Especially those who weren't exposed to a lot of careers in their high-school years.

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

I EXCELLED in my graduate courses while I barely made I through my undergrad years.

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

I get bored and start thinking about my next accomplishment.

I mean, I have quite a few things on my plate already, but the next big thing is right around the corner.

Idk what it is, but I honestly hope it doesn't involve going back to school.

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

Honestly, it's a good move, I'd love to see it happen!

[WBRC 6 News @WBRCnews]

JUST IN: Alabama A&M is preparing to extend an offer to buy Birmingham-Southern College campus https://t.co/8SSXLEGDo3

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

Looking back and working in emergency management. I get why it's so important we teach preparedness to the youth.

I, at the time a college student, had to catch a ride home because I literally didn't have gas in my car and couldn't get it because everything was destroyed.

[James Spann @spann]

THIRTEEN YEARS AGO TODAY: I still don't have the words to describe the generational tornado outbreak of April 27, 2011.

In Alabama, 62 tornadoes touched down. A total of 252 were killed, over one thousand more injured. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg is a gifted writer, and his words in Southern Living written after that horrible day perhaps are appropriate:

"Where the awful winds bore down, massive oaks, 100 years old, were shoved over like stems of grass, and great pines, as big around as 55-gallon drums, snapped like sticks. Church sanctuaries, built on the Rock of Ages, tumbled into random piles of brick. Houses, echoing with the footfalls of generations, came apart, and blew away like paper. Whole communities, carefully planned, splintered into chaos.

Restaurants and supermarkets, gas stations and corner stores, all disintegrated, glass storefronts scattered like diamonds on black asphalt. It was as if the very curve of the Earth was altered, horizons erased altogether, the landscape so ruined and unfamiliar that those who ran from this thing, some of them, could not find their way home.

We are accustomed to storms, here where the cool air drifts south to collide with the warm, rising damp from the Gulf, where black clouds roil and spin and unleash hell on Earth. But this was different, a gothic monster off the scale of our experience and even our imagination, a thing of freakish size and power that tore through state after state and heart after Southern heart, killing hundreds, hurting thousands, even affecting, perhaps forever, how we look at the sky."

We have learned much over the last 13 years about the event; involving both physical science and social science. We must take the lessons learned to help mitigate loss of life during every severe weather event. Days like April 27, 2011 come along in Alabama once about every 40 years, but we will be better even on "routine" severe weather days thanks to what we have learned after April 27, 2011.

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

This is Us by Kennedy Ryan is so well written. I'm invested in Sol & Judah. (A little over half way through)

When Judah said, "Who am I to get in the way of her healing."

Baybeeeee, I need to find me a Judah.

[James Spann @spann]

HELP US MAKE THE WARNING PROCESS BETTER: You are invited to participate in an online survey to help make the severe weather warning process more useful and effective for you and your community.

Dr. Laura Myers from the University of Alabama, Dr. Jennifer Collins from the University of South Florida, and Dr. David Roueche from Auburn University are conducting a study called “Risk and Crisis Communication, Impact Assessment Standards, and Best Practices for Effective Sheltering Decisions in Response to Structural Vulnerability.”

This study is funded under NOAA-OAR-WPO-2023-2007516: Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment in the United States (VORTEX-USA). The goal of this study is to gain a more in depth understanding of severe weather risk faced by households when taking action from severe weather warnings.

Your participation in this research study is completely voluntary. This study will begin with an online survey of households in your region to determine severe weather awareness and preparedness for severe weather impacts to your residence. You will then have the options of also participating in two additional phases of the study.

Residential assessment of the structural wind strength of your residence: Optional participation in the residence structure assessment will give you a classification of your residential structure for EF0 to EF5 wind speeds to support your severe weather sheltering decisions.

Severe weather event interviews: You will have the option to participate in brief virtual interviews about your sheltering decisions for actual severe weather events.

Here is the link to the online survey of households in either English or Spanish:

English:
https://t.co/j0iYMHfWN6

Spanish:
https://t.co/gQPkviHA2m

Be sure to read the informed consent information at the beginning of the survey and then begin the survey if you agree to participate. You will be able to read more about the two optional phases of the study and will be able to ask for more details and an invitation to participate. You can choose to complete just the online survey without participating in any additional phases. If you would like to participate in one or both of the two additional phases, that is completely voluntary.

Thank you for considering our request to participate!

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

Yikes

[Ed Bloodsworth, CBM @WKRGEd]

JUST IN: Georgetown, AL tornado confirmed as EF1 with max winds near 100 mph. Video from Darian Fazlic. @WKRG #alwx #tornado

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

There's a tornado in Clanton. 😩

[Jáleesa @jaleesadiggins]

I love that my cousin was one of the executive producers on this show. Makes my heart smile seeing people still talk about it. RIP ETB

Also recently found out she produced several episodes of Living Single. That's probably why it's my favorite show 😍

[“alright now!” ηick @Creat1ve]

Flex & Shanice’s daughter Imani dancing to the One on One theme song with them is truly everything I never knew I needed until now! Talk about a timeless theme song that makes you smile every time it plays! 🫶🏽

[Alabama EMA @AlabamaEMA]

(04/02/24 UPDATE) Update on Severe Weather Potential

https://t.co/qySXp6jUzO