Reporting in from urgent care: The broken administrative systems that poor people have been navigating for decades have spread to all the rest of the non-rich part of America.

-the price measure the US Fed uses to set interest rates only catches about half of the increase of home-insurance premiums in recent years

-this disconnect reinforces complaints about the Fed's approach to climate change, with some arguing that the Fed is not taking the issue seriously enough...

On the way back East, Big Boy was supposed to go over the Donner Pass, but due to winter storm weather, it was routed back through the Feather River Canyon and through Plumas County, so we got to see it again. We're the low mountain pass solution!

By the end you can see all the private cars that have been added to the train…one of these days I’m going to get organized and be on the train instead of seeing it from the road.

Big Boy 4014 Returns to the Feather River Canyon! (Coast to Coast Tour) YouTube video by Railfanner 4014

Big Boy has been visiting Plumas County and it’s all the talk around the forest. This is a fantastic compilation video showing off the essence of our region - rails, mountains, rivers, canyons. youtu.be/GCtXkfo6O9g?...

Hah! I've been saying the same thing about non-profit organizations.

A FEMA projection of rainfall ranging from 6 inches in Guam to 25 in Tinian and Saipan.

A screenshot from Zoom Earth showing a satellite view of Typhoon Sinlaku approaching Guam and CNMI

I'm thinking of everyone in Guam and CNMI as they prepare for the incredibly powerful Typhoon Sinlaku. zoom.earth/storms/sinla...

Pop-up livestream to discuss severe thunderstorms in Northern California, including live radar tour! - YouTube The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive #weather and #climate-focused "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain. 4/10/2026 topic: Th...

I've have a short-notice pop-up livestream today at 2:30pm PT to discuss the outbreak of unusually widespread thunderstorms across Northern California this PM, including the potential for a few supercells/severe storms containing hail & isolated tornado.

After months, I was finally able to combine both my hurricane landfall and return period datasets for the U.S. into one massive infographic.

I absolutely love this. What an insane map to look at!

It’s been a couple days since the monthly United Policyholders industry call, and I’m still ratcheted up with anxiety from the vivid stories about nonadmitted insurance companies who are jumping into the California homeowner market because it’s a great opportunity.

Banks have always outsourced asset quality issues to insurance companies, and they are not understanding just how much and how quickly this picture is changing.

Fannie and Freddie minimum insurance reqts have set the standard for consumer mortgages for many decades, because 80% of single family home mortgages are securitized. The banks originate the loans, sell them for securitization, and buy back the CMBS without ever really caring about asset quality.

But could you smell the hazardous waste landfill at Kettleman Hills?

…in order to ensure that loans continue to be repaid even when the project’s output is zero and repair or rebuilding is occurring. A big question right now is what happens when insurance is no longer mitigating that financial risk adequately.

The interesting thing, from a finance perspective, is that energy projects’ value is with their grid connection and contracts to sell electricity onto the grid, which exceeds the value of the equipment and fixtures. The lenders also require casualty and business continuity insurance...

11.03.2026

'ENTIRE SOLAR FARM DESTROYED in Wheatfield, Indiana after a strong tornado struck last night. Unfortunately, multiple house sustained significant damage here as well.'

Jaden Pappenheim [x] #FossilFuels #ClimateCollapse #SolarPanels

I’m a fan of yours on YouTube - keep up the good work! Your work just keeps getting better and better.

I have devoted much of my weather & climate career to engaging with journalists--including 200-300 news media interviews per year, many of which involve recurring conversations to facilitate timely & contextually accurate coverage. This recent collapse has been stunning and deeply disconcerting.

Thank you for the analysis! I was thinking the same thing but without any of the science-based explanation of why.

West Virginia AGJohn McCuskey—one of the oil and gas industry’s staunchest allies—called them an “industry-destroying problem.”

“There will be no more oil industries, there will be no more coal industries, there will be no more natural gas industries,” he said. “If we lose one, we lose them all.”

Trump is wiping out all climate regulation. Big Oil may regret it. For decades, oil majors fought climate regulation. Now, they’re afraid Trump’s extreme rollbacks could leave them on the hook to pay for what they’ve done.

"Oil corporations have realized that repealing the endangerment finding could backfire, leaving them more vulnerable to accountability than ever before.” I agree with this analysis. API has a plan, which sounds good until they get punched in the mouth. heated.world/p/trump-is-w...

Good move! My mom is blind, so I started riding DaBus at a very early age. I remember in high school being at canoe regattas on the windward side on Sunday and just waiting and waiting and wondering how long I’d have to wait for a bus to come by to take me back to town.

It is shocking how bad the reporting is on this across California.

The actual cost per acre for treatment and then separately for planning/permitting and oversight should be required for every single grant dollar and every project. AND we need to start preparing realistic cost projections for long-term maintenance and/or transition to ongoing treatment like PB.

So much easier to just stay home and live to drive another day. SR70 has been open throughout this storm, which is real gift given the last few years in the Feather River Canyon.

Hah! If only I were that geographically talented! But honestly I’m amazed anyone can remember that I’m from Plumas County just to start!

Here’s where all the drama is documented: bof.fire.ca.gov/projects-and...

So the Board of Forestry is in a standoff between the urban neighborhood gardeners and the insurance industry. Uncomfortable! We’ll be lucky if we see a resolution before mid 2026.

Among the four current proposed solutions, none of them exactly conform to the absolute zero vegetation in the Zero Zone that the Institute for Business and Home Safety, an insurance industry research group, advocated.

I really appreciate the BOF listened to our feedback on firewood, kerosene tanks, and definitions. We suggested allowance for large trees whose trunks and/or branches are within the 5-foot zone, but that are at least 5-10 feet from the home's roof and at least 10 feet away from chimneys.