Are you prepared to protect your family and home before hurricane season hits? Will you be able to bounce back swiftly? My guest this week on Strong Homes, Safe Families! is Ken Graham from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, and he shares plenty of insights about how to stay safe.
Ken and I talk about the science, public policy, and practice of being better prepared for hurricanes, including a discussion of COVID-19. Please click here to listen to this week’s episode.
Topics Include:
- Rising Water Evacuation: Why and when Ken decided to become a meteorologist
- Disaster Resilience: Bouncing back to recover quickly from a hurricane is possible
- Science: Meteorological breakthrough with track forecast and ability to narrow errors
- Public Policy: Best practices to be resilient by knowing when and where to evacuate
- Practice: Risk communication, perception, decision-making, and other human factors
- Tech Tools: People flee storms, but hurricane hunters use technology to collect data
- Preparation: Positive impact due to COVID-19 pandemic
“Little wiggles in the forecast matter. Everyone listening needs to understand that a 20- or 40-mile wiggle can make the difference to someone on the ground experiencing a foot of storm surge or maybe ten of feet storm surge.” – Ken Graham
National Weather Service New Orleans/Baton Rouge team members, Ken Graham, and Leslie Chapman-Henderson strike the #HurricaneStrong “Pose”