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
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On anything not listed . That being said, Public Comment is closed. Next item. Item 9a executive report. Elaine forbes interim port director. Id leak to report on the happy item about the opening of crab season. It was near the end of crab season when the ban on fishing was lifted march 26th by the department of fish and wildlife. The commercial crabbing season typically opens in midnovember. However this year a warm Ocean Temperatures caused an algae bloom that made the crab unsafe to consume. To celebrate the late opening of crab season, the Pacific Coast federation of fisher maps association hosted a media event april first in front of fishermans and seamans membe morreale chapel. Mike mcguire and aquaculture, our mayor, edwin lee, a champion of San Franciscos fishing p community and lori french a member of the multigeneration of fishing family all mailed remarks. President adams and i were in attendance. On february 9th, 2016 this Commission Approved the crab industry relief plan w
Noronex is out of the starting gates and running after launching its maiden 4000m RC drilling program to test its high-priority Fiesta and Blowhole targets within the Kalahari Copper Belt in Namibia..