May 20, 2023 | 9/11, climate change, conversations, Earth Day, earthquakes, economic development, economy, education, El Nino, environment, EPA, Everglades, FEMA, finance, Florida, Florida Keys, FWC, history, hurricanes, News, NOA weather, NOAA, observatories, oceans, regulators, rivers, society, stars, sun, Tsunami, waterways, waves, weather, weather forecasting, weather fronts
Most everyone has heard about FEMA, but do you know what they actually do? Let me explain it here. President Jimmy Carter created FEMA back in 1979. At that time they had two tasks. One was that of civil defense and the other was emergency management. Congress defined...
May 16, 2023 | beaches, boating, children, earthquakes, economic development, economy, education, EPA, Everglades, FEMA, Florida, Florida Keys, FWC, government, hurricanes, News, NOAA, observatories, oceans, rivers, USA, waterways, waves, weather, weather fronts, World, yachting
Whether you believe in climate change or not there is a cyclical weather pattern that comes and goes with regularity. It is called the El Nino and La Nina. El Nino means the little boy in Spanish. La Nina means little girl in Spanish. How does that affect us? El Nino...
Mar 11, 2023 | 2021, 2022, boating, California, children, Coast Guard, coastal cruising, death, environment, EPA, Florida Keys, slews, USA, waterways, waves, weather
In my younger days, when I first moved to Florida, I was pretty careless about going into the water whether it was day or night. I never ever gave the possibility of being bitten by a shark a second thought. In retrospect that was entirely remiss. Let me explain more....
Mar 9, 2023 | avalanches, California, climate change, earth, Earth Day, environment, EPA, Everglades, hurricanes, USA, waves, World, yachting
I offer up the following as a definition for what we call a tsunami. Tsunami is of Japanese origin. “Tsu” meaning harbor and “Nami” waves. You may also hear these waves referred to as tidal waves or even seismic waves. Both of those can be somewhat misleading in that...
