Thank God We’re Monitoring the Volcanoes
- Posted by: Morgan Clendaniel
- on March 23, 2009 at 10:54 am
In Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s disastrous response to Obama’s budget speech a few weeks ago, he singled out a $140 million appropriation as especially absurd: money for the U.S Geological Survey to monitor our nation’s volcanoes. He made some joke about eruptions of spending. Guess what, Mr. Jindal, a volcano in Alaska is blowing up, and we knew about it ahead of time.
Despite your best intentions, private citizens aren’t really equipped to monitor potential distasters. Don’t worry, we’ll keep the hurricane monitoring, too, even though it costs money.
DISCUSSION: 4 Comments
With the internet, we now have the capacity to monitor every potential catastrophe even economic. Mostly we should be using our intuition and just connect the dots, but oh us humans – we have much to learn.Check ou this great ALERT MAP- pretty amazing resourcehttp://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/
Thank god it wasn’t an emergency. That website is horribly slow. That “great” alert map is in Hungaary and uses US info. Blah.
bona sira
I live in Anchorage. The volcanoe is a joke here. Its a way to sell more breathing masks and flash lights.