After the collapse of the stage at the Indiana State Fair due to high winds, Mike Smith the Senior Vice President of Accu Weather Enterprise Solutions made an interesting comment:
"You get people out of there before the high winds occur. This is going ti happen again and again until people start taking weather risk mitigation seriously."
Weather risk mitigation is a new term at least to me. I understand the concept but had not had a name for it. In the winter I do check road conditions and weather conditions in trip planning. I recheck just prior to departure and along the way.
Years ago I took flying lessons with the plan of having an airplane for my business travel. Time could be saved by flying a small plane within a certain area. Too close then drive. Too far then fly commercial jet. The economics related to weather risk killed it. The probabilities of thunderstorms and the related cost of delays exceeded the time cost of driving.
Area specific weather risk mitigation should be a part of every plan.
David Sneed
"You get people out of there before the high winds occur. This is going ti happen again and again until people start taking weather risk mitigation seriously."
Weather risk mitigation is a new term at least to me. I understand the concept but had not had a name for it. In the winter I do check road conditions and weather conditions in trip planning. I recheck just prior to departure and along the way.
Years ago I took flying lessons with the plan of having an airplane for my business travel. Time could be saved by flying a small plane within a certain area. Too close then drive. Too far then fly commercial jet. The economics related to weather risk killed it. The probabilities of thunderstorms and the related cost of delays exceeded the time cost of driving.
Area specific weather risk mitigation should be a part of every plan.
David Sneed
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