5 September 2011
Or listen to Monica Burke, a 44-year-old emergency dispatcher from Seattle: “Our whole world was in chaos. We didn’t even know where we were except that we were in some weird time zone in Canada. I didn’t know when I was getting home, but these people basically put their lives on hold. I mean, their [...]
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1 September 2011
When a hurricane makes landfall, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency relies on a couple of metrics to assess its destructive power.First, there is the well-known Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale. Then there is what he calls the “Waffle House Index.”Green means the restaurant is serving a full menu, a signal that damage in an [...]
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