Weather Vs. Terrorism

From Kyle at Vogue Republic:

I hope to follow up on this with some compiled statistics but using some quick estimates, natural phenomenon have caused many times the number of deaths of terrorism in the past decade.

Terrorist attacks in the past 10 years would be somewhere on the order of 4-6,000. When, before factoring in the recent deaths in Port-au-Prince, mother nature’s earthquakes, tsunamis, and heat waves were responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. Frankly, I think for the coming decade, we should reconfigure our threat assessments based on reality and not what keeps Dick Cheney awake at night.

I have to say I am in agreement here – as much as I also believe we should be pursuing terrorists across the globe. I believe many of our weather-related preparedness needs are linked to infrastructure. The recent disaster in Haiti only confirms what we already know which is that Mother Nature can be a destructive force. Proper planning is necessary to prevent a similar loss of life here in the US.