Nelson Jacobsen

So I'm reading the story about the Uber driver kidnapping in DC and noticed the part about how DC MPD couldn't respond because there was no emergency communications.  Having been involved in DC Emergency Preparedness since 9/11 up until I questioned the handling of Pete Piringer by the Mayor back in 2011-- I know as much as any person in DC about the hows and why our Emergency Operation Plan "EOP" is supposed to unfold.   Part and parcel to this plan is that our equipment works and that departments respond, and I have to say that under no uncertain terms the District of Columbia cannot handle day to day operations there is no way in the world we could deal with any medium to large scale disaster.  BTW this is not the first time that this happened back in   2010 on a Monday nite DC lost this same capability for over 3 hours.  The solution to have analog radios...

So I've seen this headline on more than a few of my friends social media time lines and I wanted to point out that there is a direct correlation between Space Weather and what happens here on Earth. While this Coronal Mass Emission CME may have missed Earth directly there were still several very severe events on leading upto and on this day impacting earth. I've found a great site that has for each day what is happening on Earth with regards to disasters and I pretty sure when you take Space Weather related events and match them to Earth related disasters there will be a large spike in correspondence between them. Here is a couple of the reported disaster reported event for July 23, 2012 Flooding in Beijing (Heaviest rainstorm in six decades) Wildfire in Spain  Earthquakes 4.8 Uzbekistan 5.2 Papua More flooding: India, New Zealand, Las Vegas Tropical Cyclones Vicente Hong Kong with Typhoon warning raised to 8 out of 10 Tornado Smeaton Canada.  To name a few o...

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