[sbe-eas] NWS forgetting the lessons of Hurricane Harvey (Houston 2017)

[Aaron Read]

True, but I highly doubt he's going to just quietly retire.  And it's
besides the point: if it's not DeSantis looking to score cheap political
points? There's at least 50 other pols out there on the national stage,
deservely or not, who will do so.

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On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 8:39 PM Hal Kneller <hkneller at earthlink.net> wrote:

> DeSantis is term limited out after this term.
>
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> *Subject:* Re: [sbe-eas] NWS forgetting the lessons of Hurricane Harvey
> (Houston 2017)
>
> One thing you always count on from a govt agency is that they will NEVER
> EVER admit that they sent "too many" warnings.
>
> Sending too many warnings, and causing people to disable the alerts, will
> not result in the agency getting in trouble (or not much trouble)
> regardless of how few or how many fatalities there end up being.
>
> Sending too few warnings, however, all but guarantees the agency WILL get
> blamed for each and every death that occurs, no matter how tangential to
> the disaster the alert is about.
>
> Especially now when I'm positive Florida's governor will find some way to
> blame NOAA and/or FEMA just so he can score political points for his own
> reelection.
>
> This "cover your ass" mentality is hardly unique to government
> agencies...but I concede few seem to do it better.  It's a shame almost
> nobody with power  in DC cares to actually understand why that is and to
> try to fix it.
>
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> Aaron Read
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>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 7:01 PM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> NWS is now up to 133 tornado warnings in a hurricane.  Milton hasn't even
>> made landfall yet.
>>
>> The graphic from NWS shows a lot of overlapping warning areas as the
>> outer
>> rainbands around Hurricane Milton spin through the atmosphere.
>>
>> https://x.com/NWSGSP/status/1844129342974009810
>>
>> Figuring out how to coordinate warning messages is still a challenge to
>> prevent incessent public alerting.
>>
>> Hurricanes have flash flooding, coastal flooding, regular flooding,
>> tornados, lightning and thunderstorms, high winds, storm surges. NWS
>> standard templates used to give conflicting public action statements
>> during the same weather event with overlapping alerts.
>>
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