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Are you freaking kidding me- March??? This would sacrifice the whole offseason hurricane preparedness program for our country and decimate our hurricane modeling. This is no joke- no question this shutdown is making our country less prepared for the 2019 season and beyond.
I wrote a long thread last week about the effects here:
You can add losing both the Gulf Coast and Caribbean Hurricane Awareness Tours. No Interdepartmental or National Hurricane Conference or any FEMA courses, even for a day. Training our WMO and NWS partners- gone. There is a 100% chance it will hurt hurricane readiness
People will leave with no paychecks. And there is no way we can replace them before hurricane season. Just open government and let people do their jobs-This isn’t hard. Hurricanes have caused hundreds of billions of $$$ of damage in the last 2 years- so dangerous for our country
You have the best operational hurricane scientists in the world absolutely crippled. Can’t work with our furloughed partners-our primary offseason activity. How long could you work without pay and not feel devalued with little self-worth?
Take your politics elsewhere and just let people work and pay their bills. Anyway, sorry for the rant, but this is insane. One of Crown Jewels of NOAA is becoming deeply hurt from forces behind our control- as Steward I just can’t keep watching this without very strong emotions
Now that the shutdown appears to be done, I wanted to thank the @environmentca Canadian Hurricane Centre, the @MiamiHerald and @PhilFerro7 for providing food to our office. It made some depressing days a lot brighter for the staff 👏
