Security. He is here to talk about disasters. Dorian has been a slow motion case study of a hurricane and government response to that hurricane. Keeping in mind the horrible devastation it has done in the bahamas so far, what are the initial early lessons we are learning of the government response to it . Great problemshe for Emergency Managers in these situations is getting people evacuated. Socalled mandatory evacuations, voluntary evacuations. One of the biggest problems this has been such a slow moving hurricane that it has been on the radar screen for over a week now, and there may be some emergency fatigue, that is to say people have, for example in florida when they thought it was nowg to hit first and it will hit the east coast, people have been sheltered for a week and are getting antsy. Citizenshe response by to the evacuation orders has been very good, but i think the Emergency Managers are starting to worry that just when it is about to hit the us coast, there may be people
Killing scores of people and knocking out power water and communications. Residents are still recovering today. Id also caused multiple offshore oil spills. Active pipelines and platforms where the source of some spills, while a banded ones with no identifiable we wear this earths of others. I attributed identified from space, following a weather event since the government started tracking leaks and spills using satellites almost a decade ago. We shouldnt view this as a oneoff event or a freak accident. There are thousands of oil and gas structures in the gulf, including riggs, platforms wells, power cables and thousands and thousands of miles of pipeline. All posing environmental and safety risks. Some of this infrastructure is active and some is abandoned. But it is all aging in a growing concern for communities and wildlife impacted by spills, and also taxpayers that may be forced to pay for its eventual removal. As Climate Change super charges storms in the gulf, more powerful wind
Killing scores of people and knocking out power water and communications. Residents are still recovering today. Id also caused multiple offshore oil spills. Active pipelines and platforms where the source of some spills, while a banded ones with no identifiable we wear this earths of others. I attributed identified from space, following a weather event since the government started tracking leaks and spills using satellites almost a decade ago. We shouldnt view this as a oneoff event or a freak accident. There are thousands of oil and gas structures in the gulf, including riggs, platforms wells, power cables and thousands and thousands of miles of pipeline. All posing environmental and safety risks. Some of this infrastructure is active and some is abandoned. But it is all aging in a growing concern for communities and wildlife impacted by spills, and also taxpayers that may be forced to pay for its eventual removal. As Climate Change super charges storms in the gulf, more powerful wind
Cspan2, find a full schedule on your Program Guide watch online anytime that booktv. Org. Welcome, everyone. Deeper lecture series featuring trail manager professional historic trail marks party. The topic women of 1812 because we are kicking off womens History Month, the month of march. A great way to kick it offef tonight. And we are excited for this series, ranger for the first in a National Historic. A great Political Economic and emotional. These women are faces and ages and their bravery in this nation and the american revolution. A few words about kate, visual information specialist and prior to working to Museum Director and conservation assessment and also for nader for the war of 1812 bicentennial 21222015. It went over a number of years and i think it is the National Museum setting the stage for history. Without furtherd ado i can put you in good hands so please take away. The first person to hire me, thank you. Theres a good chance. Im going to share my history. I am kate,
Revolutionary period over the course of the past several years dr. Bell is professor of history at the university of maryland. He holds a b. A. From the university of cambridge and a ph. D. From harvard. He has won more than a dozen Teaching Awards including the 2017 [inaudible] of maryland board of regents faculty award for excellence in teaching which is the highest honor for teaching faculty in the maryland state system. In addition, he has held Major Research fellowships at yale, cambridge and the library of congress and is the recipient of a 2018 National Endowment of the humanities public scholar awards and the 2021 Andrew Carnegie fellowship. He is author of the book stolen. And this book was a finalist for the 2020 George Washington prize and the 2020 Harriet Tubman prize. Dr. Bell is a trustee of the Maryland Center for history and culture and a fellow of the Royal Historical society. It is a delight to have him back with us for another program, and so without further delay, p