This week’s New York Times Magazine cover story is called “The Deadly Choices at Memorial”. This astonishing and frightening account is a must read for all of us. The central question in your mind after reading this expose’ should be “could this happen at my hospital?”
The answer is that it could not happen at the [...]
The Naranja Lakes Men’s Club
There is a pretty famous picture of a Royal Palm tree from Hurricane Andrew. The tree is about 75 feet tall. About 60 feet up there is a two by four impaling it. That tree survived for many years with that piece of wood sticking out of it. The wind gauges [...]
The ABC’s
We have gone from a scenario that looked ominous on Saturday, to a set of favorable meteorological circumstances. Tropical Storm Claudette whipped up almost overnight and moved up into the Panhandle, messy but manageable and now back to being a tropical depression. Tropical Storm Ana has been downgraded to a tropical depression and is [...]
Raining Cats and Dogs
For all the things we do to become expert at storm preparation, we have never been able to satisfactorily resolve what to do about the pets of essential staff. We have tried, and failed, several times. From a practical standpoint, sometime the only thing keeping a critical member of the team [...]
One thing that baffles me every year is the Hurricane Prediction update that gets issued by Colorado State University expert William Grey. The Miami Herald story today talked about him adjusting down from eleven named storms to ten named storms. This seems like not too much of a prediction risk on his part, since the [...]
