“So if we have warnings that we’re going to see very severe, rapid rainfall with flash flooding,” he said, “what is it that we actually want people to do? Other than advise people it’s going to happen, do we want them to go to shelters? If so, do we have shel...
Last year, the federal weather service revamped its criteria for issuing alerts, mindful that it might have been overusing the Wireless Emergency Alert system, which first went into operation in 2012 and now broadcasts urgent warnings to more than 300 million cellular devices. The weather ...
Sept. 2, 2021. A stunned U.S. East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers, tornado damage and continuing calls for rescue Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain, drowning more than two dozen people in their homes and cars. Credit...
Henri brought lots of rain and fury but very little loss of life. That might have prompted complacency, said Jeannette Sutton, a disaster and risk expert specializing in communication at the University of Albany. “So they got a message last week that said it’s really really bad and then ...
ETHICS In the last few years, we've discovered that computing isn't as clear-cut as we thought it was. In 1990, it was relatively easy to look at a program and say that we understood what it did. Now, when almost all significant applications run on com- plex distributed systems, ...
Frank Sinatra’s 50th birthday special was a big deal. As was the Pope’s visit to NYC. An Emmy Award was given to 23-year-old rising star Barbra Streisand. In 1966 there was growing evidence that a vast number of the nation’s living rooms were becoming family motion picture theaters....
process on stage, the ceremonial initiation intoDoctordom. Then something epically unprecedented happened: the fire alarm went off in the middle of the Hippocratic Oath. It did not cease to stop, in case it was a false alarm, so we all had to evacuate. Into pouring rain.Perfect timing, ...
See Mary Chapin Carpenter at Longwood Gardens. Yep – this was a lot of fun, and though the concert was delayed for rain, it wound up being a perfect night. I’ve been humming Halley Came to Jackson all week. Do morning runs.I often run during the morning on weekends (such as this...
In the middle of the night, I woke up in the most intense pain I have ever been in. It felt like glass shards were in my eyes. Chris put some of the other drops in and I was able to go back to sleep, but by morning I was in bad shape. Coming from someone that never took ...
Feb 24th: Kylie closed the deal on her $2.7 million "starter home" in Calabalas, not that she could properly move out from mama Kris's place until after she'd turned 18.And also Lucky Charms sent her a special box of their cereal— it was just marshmallows. Feb 25th: Kim licked ...