Trying to teach my students about being empathetic and professional is kind of hard when POTUS is out here saying, "whole civilization will die tonight" and "open the f*cking strait" on social media.
We hold 5 yr olds to higher standards.
Anyway, time to go teach like none of this is happening.
I did another thing... A 1988 Martin D16 A (Ash). Martin only made 818 of these. The Ash back and sides are brighter and more of a "glassy" voicing compared to the more common D18 (Mahogany) and D28 (Rosewood). Given emerald ash borer issues nowadays, I had to snag one of these from my birth year.
Colloquium today
Joy Pochatila
National Spatial Data
Infrastructure (NSDI) Coordinator,
US Geological Survey
New Paper Alert. 3 former undergraduate students and I worked on this. We created indices that allow us to determine where tropical cyclone disasters are most likely to occur... Hint: It's not just coastal counties. Inland flooding is a major driver of #disaster!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Really good new study. As expected, tropical cyclone (TC) impacts are high for Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties due to high TC hazard + population exposure, but also for many *inland* counties in the SE and NE due to flash flooding from TCs + vulnerable communities.
Aw man I wish academics had headlines like this.
“Stephen Aguilar (existential dread) is not expected to write today, per @mpolikoff.bsky.social”
Jules approves.
Here is a photo of my dog. That is all.
Picked up one of these 1990s indiglo expeditions because I had one when ai was a kid. Loved it. Your newer one looks great with that band!
I guess my dog decided to become an Eagles fan. As a Bills fan, I don't know how I feel about this. I guess, go birds.
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Aka proactive mitigation and adaptation. But like convincing strangers to give you 20.00 today with promises they will get 2,000.00 in 10 years. Not an easy thing to get people to do, especially now in this political and cultural hellscape. Dumped on us by uncompassionate, evil, greedy hypocrites.
Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Katrina (2005) made landfall in Louisiana.
Four years ago today, Hurricane Ida (2021) made landfall in Louisiana.
This animation shows Katrina on the left and Ida on the right over the same 24-hour period using NOAA Merged IR (left) and NOAA ABI Band 13 (right).
Hurricane Katrina resulted in nearly 1,400 deaths, according to revised statistics from the National Hurricane Center, and remains the costliest storm in U.S. history at around $200 billion in today's dollars.
20 yrs ago. Since then, disaster counts, costs, vulnerability have risen.
Disasters are a product of society, and are caused by extreme events interacting with societal vulnerabilities through multifaceted human decision-making processes.
We are not ready for the next one...
#Katrina #NewOrleans
When we think of disasters in the Gulf we often think of places like New Orleans and Houston...but the data shows how per-capita damages are often worst in smaller places like Refugio County, Texas ($92k damage per capita from 2005-2024) or Harrison County, Mississippi ($65k).
G-shocks are so expensive now... I picked up my Iniglo Expedition for 20.00.
Yes! Loved that one. Mine would have been circa 1996-98. Up next, Casio G-Shock 5600 series.
Been getting back into watches and picked up this cheap Timex Indiglo Expedition. Cousin had one of these when I was 8, and he was 16. I thought he/it was the coolest. I begged for one. Mom and Dad did get me one, but it has long since disappeared. Today, its replacement arrived. #Oldiebutagoodie
Nearly 1,400 people died after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans, which has had an uneven recovery in the past 20 years.
First day of the 32nd grade.
I am okay and not on campus. I am at home.
The operative key word here is "Can". They won't. They haven't been and the consequences are generally not great. I think you severely underestimate the predatory nature of the MH industry. Again, this is based on decades of research from experts...
www.stephenmstrader.org/_files/ugd/f...
Far too many people are unknowingly stuck on Child's Hill... Hey, when I was 4 yr old, I thought thunder was the sound of clouds colliding and if I stared at my arm when lightning happened I could see bones like an Xray. Then, I actually became an atmospheric scientist...
Also, it isn't as simple as "wind getting underneath the home". Tornadoes are violent winds with debris. Vertical and horizontal winds with extreme pressure differentials.
If there is no chassis, then how will the home be anchored? They won't be.
I think you are assuming these changes will suddenly require the homes to be anchored to the ground. They won't be. Many double-wide MHs are not anchored already because the codes say they are heavy enough (They aren't). This is stuff myself, and many wind engineers have worked on.
Weakening codes isn't the answer to affordability and availability issues. Take a look at the industry that is motivated by profits. You also just described EVERY disaster. A far majority of homes won't face a disaster, does that mean we need to weaken codes across the board?
~75% of manufactured homes in the southeast where manufactured homes, by far, are most prevalent are not in "mobile home parks". No one said McMansions and other newly built homes are great. They aren't. Codes and standards are too weak. This is black and white thinking. It's miles of grey...
