Like many Floridians, I am nursing a bit of survivor's guilt about Hurricane Dorian and the Bahamas. If Dorian had not lingered for so long over the Bahamas, Florida likely would have received a much harder hit from the storm. I have seen a lot of efforts here to provide assistance to folks in the … Continue reading Hurricane relief and nonprofit transparency
Tag: Hurricanes
Hurricane homeschooling
The flexibility that homeschooling brings has been a blessing in countless ways in the past, but nothing like fleeing a hurricane. Our local government delayed issuing evacuation orders for folks who live in evacuation zones (like us) until the area was literally under a hurricane watch from the National Hurricane Center. This means children in … Continue reading Hurricane homeschooling
Waiting on Hurricane Dorian
My phone has been blowing up with messages and calls from concerned friends and family members asking if we are safe from Hurricane Dorian. We are safe. We evacuated to Georgia, but are hours away from the coast here too. We left our house on the beach in Flagler County, Florida, last Wednesday when we … Continue reading Waiting on Hurricane Dorian
The maddening innumeracy of hurricane models
These are two cycles of models for Hurricane Dorian taken merely 24 hours apart. Do you notice something about them? There is zero overlap between them. There is no mathematical way that the folks running these scenarios are representing the actual range of possible outcomes. The consequences of these mathematical failures are huge. Yesterday, reporters … Continue reading The maddening innumeracy of hurricane models
For those seeking solid information on Hurricane Dorian
Levi Cowan, a graduate student studying tropical cyclones at Florida State University and obviously one of the brightest young scientists in this country, does some incredible videos on hurricanes. He is on Twitter at @tropicaltidbits and has a website, tropicaltidbits.com. He's posting a lot of the reconnaissance data on the hurricane as it comes in, … Continue reading For those seeking solid information on Hurricane Dorian
Hurricane memes, because Dorian
So I've been polling friends trying to decide how much I should worry about Dorian, which may or may not hit Florida and may or may not be a hurricane when it does. One person confessed that she had bought some water bottles while at the grocery store. A few people called me a chicken. … Continue reading Hurricane memes, because Dorian
