A podcast covering all disasters. Emergency Management Professional (?). Amateur Historian. Coordinator of Chaos.
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Hello everyone. I am still alive but mostly focusing on other places. I have a substack now! It’s disastroushistory.substack.c…. I write a lot of things there! So if you’d drop me a follow there you’ll probably enjoy it!
This is why smoking at gas pumps is banned. The cigarette won’t ignite gasoline vapors, but the second you tell everyone they can smoke at a gas pump they will start lighting the cigarettes at gas pumps and then everything is on fire.
You’re going to read and see a lot of posts over the next 48 hours by people who do not understand heat, fire, steel, or air pressure.
You will also see a lot of posts making comparisons between disasters which are stripped of all context and should not be compared.
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Seeing a lot of chatter on this platform about abuse/nuisance reports on Spotter Network lately, and while Spotter Network serves a great purpose, it lacks a reliable verification layer leading to an uptick in nuisance and false reports.
Report Buddy bridges the gap by pairing spotter submissions with photo/video evidence, giving reports the credibility they need.
Attached below [first two images] are Report Buddy's submission interface, and the other images [last two] are recent nuisance reports made from Spotter Network.
Report Buddy is in no way a perfect solution for the reporting issue we have, and many opt to just post on Facebook or X their reports and tag the local WFO, which is perfect! Report Buddy is simply another tool in the shed to use whenever you need to submit accurate storm reports, locate your coordinates or find the @ of the nearest WFO to you. I am currently working on a restructure of our submission interface, it should be released soon!
reportbuddy.org/
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This is exactly why humanities courses are so important in college. Especially for STEM majors. These decisions, while based on science, cannot be made in a scientific vacuum. There are cultural and social factors that must be considered.
This has been a controversial topic that I probably started, but I think the conversation needs to be had.
1.5 million people under false alarm tornado warnings with no evident rotation will make it so that next time these same people are under a tornado warning, they will probably take it less seriously. That's not a good thing for meteorology.
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An EF-0 tornado was confirmed in warned areas of Baltimore City and Dundalk during active Tornado Warnings until 4:45 PM EDT, not after cancellation. partnerservices.nws.noaa.gov/products/cache… ialert.com/alert.php?aler…
At the risk of wading into a hornets nest, I think that tornado warnings are issued on a contextual level based on the local office.
A meteorologist in the Baltimore NWS office is going to pull the trigger on a warning faster than one in the Norman office. That is a good thing.
The funny/frustrating part about this weather twitter drama right now is the moment an office doesn’t issue a tornado warning for an eh radar signature in BFE western Nebraska they will get utterly roasted for weeks afterwards.
The cause of a wildfire has no influence on its speed of spread, amount of spread, temperature of the flames, or anything beyond the point where heat, oxygen, and fuel combine. Literally zero. An arson does not burn hotter or faster than a lightning fire. This myth needs to die.
Stop flying drones over active wildfires. There were 26 incursions over the Spokane fires that grounded firefighting aircraft. It’s going to get someone killed.
Staring directly at you wildfire chasers.
I see we’ve already started the “how could these giant things made out of dead trees and large amounts of plastics with hundreds of small crevices for embers to land in burn while this green living tree full of water 20 feet away didn’t?! Must be intentional!” garbage already.
There are simply not enough fire resources in the United States to deal with the current fire situation in the United States.
As videos emerge from Spokane of homes burning I feel the need to remind everyone that a wildfire outside of urban areas has an essentially continual expanse of fuel and will look like one big burn scar. Urban areas do not have that. Most of the spread is embers vs radiative heat
The Old Trail Fire burning in Spokane right now is an absolute nightmare. There is no amount of water or firefighting apparatus that will prevent this from spreading further. Winds too strong, fuels too dry, too many fuels available. This is a get people out and regroup situation
A fast moving wildfire has entered Spokane, Washington today August 1, 2026. It is being pushed by 20-30 mph sustained winds with 50+ mph gusts.
It has already jumped the Spokane River and is moving through the northwest suburbs. Brown line is heat sig. red is most recent jump.
At least one large tornado has been observed today July 31, 2026 in the Santa Fe province of Argentina. The entire Buenos Aires area is under a further tornado watch as more severe storms move through the area. South American severe season is busy the past two days.
We got *some* new information about the burnover incident in June that killed 4 wildland firefighters in Colorado. It’s a basic timeline but still leaves a ton of questions about why they were there in the first place. Second photo is the general vicinity of where they were.
This explosion in a Japanese mall about an hour after the major earthquake there earlier this week has fascinated me. It’s not a collapse as there’s too much outward force and debris flight for that. It’s universal across the building at an incredibly fast rate.
The propane confined to the second floor makes the most sense. Pretty easy as long as there’s no major vertical openings. There’s also very little to no visible flames and no post explosion fire damage. This means it was closer to the lower explosive limit range.
