There’s one thing you can just about guarantee every summer: A hurricane will threaten the Holy City.
Through the years, we’ve learned the more advance warning we have, the better. People have more time to prepare with a time-tested routine of boarding up windows, strategically placing sandbags and heading to the grocery store to stock up on supplies. Others evacuate.
But with the Trump administration’s huge ongoing and planned cuts to federal staff and funding of the nation’s storm forecasting abilities, the storms of the future may pose more of a risk than ever before. And it’s not because of climate change. It’s because of changes that will scale back forecasting…