I made Hong Kong Threads really mad.

The northern lights are out again in Nebraska tonight!

This insanity has officially been surpassed

If you’re trying to report on an active disaster scene, stop posting numbers of injuries/trapped/missing/dead from scanners. It does a disservice to emergency responders. They’re not reporting things, they are operating under the minimal information they have.

We’re doing the category 6 hurricane discourse again I guess.

Oddly enough not outright calling it pyrotornadogenesis. Curious as to why

The Jasper Wildfire in Canada in 2024 produced plume driven winds consistent with EF4 and EF5 tornados. Seriously.

Been doing a lot of research into Great Lakes shipwrecks and the Fitz was the last major Great Lakes shipping disaster oddly enough.

These two images of Melissa will be in my mind forever.

One of my Facebook followers sent me this photo of the Edmund Fitzgerald going through (probably) the Soo Locks in the mid 60s

Hurricane Melissa is going to be studied for an incredibly long time

Talking about disasters on the internet brings out the worst conspiracy theorists, but this is the first time I’ve seen an “I-35W bridge collapse was intentional with explosives” conspiracy theorist.

I’m in a meteorology class online right now and I decided to read the discussion board for our most recent project out of curiosity and I did not comprehend the level at which people refuse to look things up to learn on their own

It took awhile but we finally got one

The implication of using this study to give Enderlin an EF5 rating is we can now go back and re rate every tornado based on an actual rating and methodology from the NWS.

Justice for my Ashby, Nebraska tornado!

If you thought the Enderlin EF-5 was going to end the “was it an EF-5” debates boy oh boy do I have bad news for you. It’s going to make it a million times worse.

A new favorite game I like to play is “is that a real thing or is it from Blaine County Radio in GTA V”

College football fans are well versed in cash given in food bags @sickoscommittee.org

When I worked in DC you would see no less than a dozen police from any point at the national mall at any given time. I lived directly behind the Supreme Court and could see 5 cops at all times from my window. There’s literally no reason to have anymore cops there at all.

Hey so the new War of the Worlds used real disaster footage and just overlaid aliens. This is the Fort McMurray wildfire.

Desperately need Midwesterners to stop complaining about Canadian wildfire smoke.

Online news websites stop posting articles without actually reading the research paper challenge level: Apparently impossible. No one is calling for a 300 meter megatsunami to hit the west coast if the Cascadian Subduction Zone has an earthquake.

Genuine question. If someone said the phrase “up underneath” do you know what they mean?

So this AccuWeather article title has been driving me nuts since they posted it the other day. This map is *not* supposed to show the best and worst places to live for hazards. It gives you an idea of what to expect for recovery post disaster.

Read this week’s disaster dispatch here! disastroushistroy.substack.com/p/disaster-d...

Out of curiosity I looked up how much smoke jumpers make. It’s $16 an hour. No joke. $20 an hour if on an uncontrolled wildfire. That’s ridiculous.

Historical wildland firefighters had the coolest names. Wag Dodge? Immaculate.

Oh this next podcast episode is going to be sad.

I wrote a deeper breakdown of what the numbers in the ProPublica article released about wildfire firefighter staffing yesterday. You can read it here. disastroushistroy.substack.com/p/wildfire-s...

You cannot want more prescribed burns and full suppression on all wildfires. You cannot want better forest management practices and full suppression on all wildfires. You cannot want to keep wildland firefighters safe and and full suppression on all wildfires. These things are not possible.

It's corn sweat time.

Watching an active IR flight over a wildfire in northern California in the midst of writing a book about disasters is a surreal experience.

Pushing for full suppression on all wildfires is shortsighted and a disaster waiting to happen.

Disaster Dispatch for this past week! You can read it here: disastroushistroy.substack.com/p/disaster-d...

Apparently the LASD believed the explosives that detonated this morning were inert when they were handling them at the training facility prior to the explosion that killed three deputies. So, do with that what you will.

We should change the colors of flash flood warnings. Article here: disastroushistroy.substack.com/p/change-the...

Hey everyone! I am officially writing a book! It's going to be called Disastrous History. Should hopefully release next year.

The more I write this article about flash flood warnings being ignored, the more I’ve convinced myself that we have to change the coloring

Hello all, I wrote an article on evacuation color notifications and how several western states are doing it wrong disastroushistroy.substack.com/p/evacuation...

The first step in fixing people ignoring flash flood warnings is to change the color of the polygon

Friendly reminder as the news goes around that the Kerrville city manager didn’t have emergency alerts turned on on purpose, here is a timeline of the flooding and when actual alerts went out. substack.com/@disastroush...

The Kerrville city manager said he had emergency alerts turned off the night of the devastating flooding on July 4th. Intentionally.

And Nevada. You’re also on my list

Who do I need to talk to to get Arizona and New Mexico to change their wildfire evacuation colors from red meaning to stay put and green meaning to evacuate? Because I hate it

A wildfire has been burning in basically the same area as Area 51 since July 4th and I have not seen a single conspiracy theory about it. I’m proud of you guys.

The Utah wildfire video of a purported firenado has been making the rounds on social media. But was it an actual fire tornado? I think not. Read more here: disastroushistroy.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...

Hello all, I wrote a detailed timeline comparing the extent of flooding in Camp Mystic to the timeline of emergency alerts for the 4th of July flooding. Spoiler alert: It looks really bad for local authorities. disastroushistroy.substack.com/p/timeline-o...

To add some additional context, neither official Kerr County emergency Facebook page posted anything until at least 5:10 am on July 4th. By this point it’s likely that a number of fatalities had already occurred and was a full 4 hours after the first flash flood warnings had been issued.

The timing of flood warnings vs response time by authorities in Kerr County, Texas is looking worse and worse by the day. 🧵