Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Status of the Weather Enterprise? It’s Adulting!
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Post-hurricane Houston, Florida, and Puerto Rico. Part 3. Reframing
Weeks after the hurricanes have come and gone, Houston (and other parts of Texas), and cities and towns extending across...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Post-hurricane Houston, Florida, and Puerto Rico? Bill Read weighs in…
Comments are largely out of sight in the blogosphere and too often are lost or unread as a consequence. They...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Post-hurricane Houston, Florida, and Puerto Rico. Part 2. Three weeks later…
LOTRW last offered a look at recovery from hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria on September 29. Time for another quick...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Recovery: A tale of three hurricanes.
“Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice.” – Will Durant “Recovery starts from the darkest moment.” –...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The existential human challenge.
The existential human challenge? You might have your own candidate; here’s one to chew on: Thriving on our generous, dangerous,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Building U.S. disaster resilience.
Prologue: With each passing day, the Puerto Rican disaster reveals its true extent. It’s no mere disaster (a word cheaply...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Ratcheting-up America’s resilience to hazards.
Prologue: The daily news from Puerto Rico is excruciatingly tragic. A week after Hurricane Maria’s passage, some 3.5 million people...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Shelter-in-place!
“A banker lends you an umbrella when the sun is shining but takes it back when it starts to rain.”...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Time to hit the reset button on American weather-hazards policy?
Here is America’s weather-hazards policy in a nutshell[1]: React at times when weather outlooks and forecasts indicate danger. Shelter in...
