EMS needs to be designated as an essential service

 Heat and extended power outages are killers.

The 2024 hurricane season was predicted to be an active one. With some early activity—things went quiet for most of August.

Well, the first thing I did was look up the meaning of “parsimonious” to have some idea of what they were talking about. The definition “I think they are using” is this: “What does it mean that science is parsimonious?

If you think you can avoid politics as an emergency manager…guess again.

Politics, the Presidential Election and upcoming debate, and not to mention the start of the college and National Football seasons dominate what I’m seeing and reading and…yet, the weather has not gone away totally.

While writing this blog post I was thinking about the tax implications of those homes lost to the waves. The land, sand, shore remains, so I expect they still have to pay taxes for the property even if they don’t have a home on the site---hmm?

There has been a very active hurricane season already. Right now we are in a bit of a grace period, but the forecast for September is increasingly threatening.  Check out the forecast below. It is sobering indeed.

It is an astonishing fact that according to the NY Times, Half Their Land Burned in a Decade: The California Counties Constantly on Fire

The threat is not storm surge this time, but high tides and rip currents that can sweep swimmers out to sea.

This is a story of modern living, an evolution of what we collectively consider a necessity, and what we might do as individuals.

I have to say I’ve become a fan of AccuWeather’s predictions for severe weather and the expected impacts of storms.

Ernesto is focused on the Caribbean and if the estimated track for the storm remains as projected, it will remain well east of the Eastern Seaboard.

It is not beyond the imagination that someone who can’t buy a gun, can purchase a car, and use it as a deadly weapon to mow down people in its path. This has happened time and again with deadly consequences.

Rome was not built in a day and it will take many years of planning and building to overcome our expected future damages. Leave it to say, we did not start soon enough!

Especially troubling to me is the statement that aid to those most impacted by disasters (low income) will not see what the bill and bonding measure first proposed

A harbinger of things to come is that last item above, “artificial intelligence models capable of summarizing news.” Yes, AI is coming for all us us! It can write a disaster plan!

Sometimes I hate being right, but…I was right on this one.

Tropical Storm Debby is certainly going to be a “downer” for the East Coast in the coming days. It is currently projected to drench most of the seaboard with rain, lots of rain. It is a slow-moving storm with the opportunity to soak many low lying areas. As predicted days ago, it is the type of “hurricane” that is fed by warmer ocean temperatures that allows for much higher precipitation as it moves overland.