Forty-eight people and counting, that is how many have been found dead due to severe weather and tornadoes in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee as of the time of this post. Katrina killed about 1,800 people. As a meteorologist, the hardest part of the job is watching the weather, knowing that there is nothing you can do to stop the weather events that are taking place, and then hearing the death reports roll in. Sure, there are forecasts and warnings out to mitigate loss of life and property, but when severe weather rolls through a populated late at night, you know there will be death. Sometimes I just wish I could figure out a way to help stop the needless deaths by the weather. It is my life’s goal, and the ultimate goal in meteorology, to have 0 weather related deaths every day, now if I could only figure out how to do that.
Sorry for the dose of depression
– Sooner Dead
