Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Want to reduce disaster losses? Keep score.
In the early 1900’s, my grandfather faced a challenge at work. Though only a teenager, he was foreman in a...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A Tale of Two (Real) Worlds
“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.” – Dag Hammarskjold In this post,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Primum non nocere!
“First, do no harm.” The origin of the precise phrase hasn’t been traced, but the sentiment of nonmaleficence (what a...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Road Weather
Think back to the last time you were terrified by the weather. No, not one of those times that the...
From AMS Journals, Perspectives
A Dose of Reality: The Social Side of Disasters
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director, from the AMS Project, Living on the Real World Reality: Disasters – that...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Today’s reality dose: Hazards have a social side
Reality: Disasters – that is, disruptions of entire communities, persisting after an extreme has come and gone, and exceeding a...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A dose of reality about hazards
Reality: The Earth does much of its business through extreme events. The reason that the Arctic and Antarctic aren’t even...
Perspectives
Remembering Katrina and New Orleans
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director, from the AMS project, Living on the Real World “…we can not dedicate,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remembering Katrina and New Orleans
“…we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate – we can not hallow – this ground. The brave men, living...
