It’s been awhile since we have had a hurricane season that actually produced hurricanes. I have pulled up a few posts from previous years that may have some value for my readers.
With Hurricane Matthew turning up the eastern seaboard the Governor of Georgia declined to order any mandatory evacuations. They instead deferred to local authorities to make the determinations. My post Leave or Stay: When Should We Really Evacuate and Why? might be a good read.
Thousands of people have moved out of the coastal areas and numerous shelters have been opened. My post Could Current Shelter Requirements Keep People Out in the Cold is timely at this moment too.
My post Are Hericanes More Deadly Than Himicanes? It’s time to improve naming conventions looked at perceptions people might have based on the gender of the storm. I wonder if Matthew was chosen on purpose or just luck of the draw?
I took a good look at problems we’ve had with other high profile hurricanes in my post Do We Lack the Will to Prepare? I’m really hoping we don’t see repeat problems.
How quickly we bounce back will be interesting to watch. My post The Surrender of Self Reliance looked at some advantages developing nations had over the United States.
Enjoy the reads and I look forward to your comments.
All good reminders.
Good info, but a few corrections.
1) We’ve had hurricanes every year – this is the first in a while with one making landfall on the US. 2) Matthew wasn’t “chosen” as the name, it was simply next on the list. 3) That study about “him” versus “her” names was quickly repudiated by peer review, so remove that from the discussion.
Appreciate you taking the time to post Rob. Would it be possible to get a link to a study which repudiates the https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4066510/ study published in the National Institute of Health publication?
Yup – when you click that link, you see 4 letters pointing out the flaws in that study. In the two years since then, zero studies that can reproduce that support.
Pretty interesting article here which looks at some of the controversy the gender bias raised. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/06/03/disbelief-shock-and-skepticism-hurricane-gender-study-faces-blowback/ Two points I think have merit is that naming conventions based upon storm intensity/potential would be more informative as I mentioned in the post. The second point is that gender bias is a huge issue in a wide variety of topics and difficult to quantify generally speaking.