Weather Profilers Head To Miss.
This article from the Sun Herald brings to light something that I've known for some time -- AccuWeather is reconstructing what happened during Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi. This is being done as part of our Forensics services, which are housed right next door to my desk. My good friend Steve Wistar from our Forensics Department is in Mississippi today, for the second time since Katrina hit.
The problem is, people have certain types of insurance that cover certain weather events. If you have flood insurance and a tree falls on your house, you can't claim the tree damage. If you have insurance that covers you from falling trees and a shrub comes through your window on a wave... well, you get the idea.
But in Katrina, because so few people were there when it hit, it's hard to say what exactly happened at each individual piece of property. That's why we're there.
I've done some storm investigating earlier in my career (a local tornado and Hurricane Fran for example)... I understand this need to reconstruct history, a "weather profiler" standing atop a pile of debris and scratching his chin like Frank Black, then FLASH! you see the storm and how it was when she came ashore. That's good stuff.
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