It was that so many buildings and key pieces of infrastructure were flooded or ultimately destroyed during that storm. And in my research, i spent a lot of time at the National Hurricane center, and the meteorologists there who were incredibly talented kept telling me the same thing over and and over again and that was, you know, were just not very good at this. Were just still not very good at forecasting and predicting these storms. Were still not very good at preparing on the front end for the kind of havoc that is wreaked by these storms. And we saw that in 2017 with hurricane maria, we saw that with hurricane hugo. And as i was leaving and thinking about the questions of infrastructure and prediction and how it is that we respond to Natural Disaster, it to occurred to me that, you know, for all that is powerful about a hurricane, theyre nowhere near our most powerful natural phenomenon, you know . When you think of the sheer sort of explosive power, earthquakes are exponentially s
Commemorating the fifth anniversary of super storm sandy which obviously affected a large part of the eastern seaboard. And i was reporting as it struck in my research became my third book super storm. I was looking at how it was we had gotten super storm sandy so wrong that new york had failed to the issue evacuation orders and so many buildings and key pieces of infrastructure were flooded and destroyed. To spend time at the National Hurricane center those who are incredibly talented told me the same thing over and over we are just not very good at this still at forecasting storms. And we saw that in 2017 with Hurricane Maria and hurricane hugo. And to respond to disaster for all that is powerful so if you think of that sheer explosive power earthquakes are exponentially smaller so how do we prepare for those as a nation are we prepared for that . When you think about a hurricane we have a lot of technology we can use so the International Guard that are directly into a storm to drop
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