Hurricane Hearings Today

http://science.house.gov/publications/hearings_markups_details.aspx?NewsID=1920

All tropical activity in the Atlantic Basin has been cancelled today and probably tomorrow until the activity at the National Hurricane Center that resulted in an ouster of the Director has been totally investigated.

Like really.

Seriously.

We may find out what really happened. Or not.

You know was Proenza making his secretary add in 2 T of Soy Milk EXACTLY and one pack of splenda and 1 teaspoon of sugar and just it pushed her over the edge... Was he asking the IT guys to do strange tinkering with the many, many computers there. Did he have a real personality conflict or split personality? Different personalities? Oh..not him too. Seriously though...

I have a few questions personally.

Why didn't the government just give the job to someone from within the ranks of the NHC or HRD or some hurricane specialist somewhere and leave Bill at the NWS?

Why didn't they just give Bill Proenza the job at the NWS instead of rewarding some guy just out of the service with a great pension and lots of good contacts the job such as Lautenbacher?

Then Bill could have continued running the NWS the way he wanted and someone from within the holy ranks of the hurricane world could have had the job and

everyone would have been happier I suppose...........

Just curious.

I mean how hard is it to promote from within your own and not outsource jobs to friends with high connections.

Then again... didn't some really nice man from Oklahoma who trained horses or something get the head job at FEMA?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Brown
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/bios/lautenbacher.htm

What do these two men have in common?
Private sector to public sector?
Friends in high places?
Bad decisions.....
What was the name of that attorney lady Bush knew who he wanted to make a Supreme Court Judge?

So, yeah I would like to understand why the government made a bad situation worse allowing forecasters and secretaries to have their boss fired at the NWS who had worked for the government with weather for close to 40 years and then he is made the butt of jokes about how he doesn't understand QuikScat and it's importance. I think Proezna understands it better than both Lautenbacher and Brown did Katrina.

Should be interesting.

Nothing else happening in the Atlantic basin today... or nothing I can write about here. Have to go pick out which heels I'm wearing with the red ruffled skirt today.

Later Gator.. Bobbi