Thursday, September 01, 2011

Safer Streets Commentaries

Longenecker's latest... [Read]
Posted by David Codrea at 9/01/2011 12:04:00 PM

1 comment:

Rev. Paul said...

He makes a very good point; I have one I can add. In the '80s, I was a firefighter, and our town got 8" of rain in 6 hours. I was driving a pumper to which we had tied off three LP tanks (the big, horizontal types) and a mobile home to keep them from floating away in a flooding creek. The chief called the Nat'l Weather Service in St. Louis (50 miles away) to ask how much more rain we could expect. They asked "what rain?". The clouds were so low that it didn't show up on their radar, and so they had no idea there was a problem.

This typifies the problems inherent in dealing with non-locals in the event of an emergency.

9/01/2011 12:16 PM

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