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Comparative failure in science.
And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless,...
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Meteorology’s G.O.A.T. – How do you stack up?
Better than you think. Here’s why. The previous LOTRW post makes the case for Elijah the Tishbite as the greatest...
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Who’s the greatest meteorologist who ever lived? The G.O.A.T.?
(This post is a bit longer, and a bit different from the usual… my apologies in advance.) When I was...
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The future of emergency management. Part 4. Three modest, local-level narratives.
…life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt...
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The future of emergency management. Part 2. Emergency management itself is suffering a disaster.
The future of emergency management starts with the present. And today, emergency management in the United States is in growing...
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The future of emergency management. Part 1. The future of emergencies themselves.
“If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound if no one is around to hear it?”...
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If Dick Hallgren were alive today…what would be his message?
Meteorologists are hardly celebrities. They’re not visible on the world stage in the same way as entertainers or political figures...
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The National Weather Service, NOAA, and their civil servants: Unbroken.
In 2010, Laura Hillenbrand[1] published her biography of Louis Zamperini, entitled Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience,...
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Former NWS Directors speak out.
This past week, the five living former directors of the National Weather Service issued an open letter to the American...
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Remedial reading – Laudate Deum
The previous LOTRW post, occasioned by the conjunction of Easter, Earth Week, and the passing of Pope Francis, took a...
